Eliza Roxcy Snow

“ We have a horticultural and agricultural department, the latter divided into several branches, each provided with an experienced overseer.
Also, we have a hat factory, in which are produced all our fur and wool hats. We make our tinware have a pottery, broom, brush, and molasses, factory, a shingle mill and two saw mills, operated by water power, and one steam saw mill ”

“ We have established a cotton farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres, in the southern part of the Territory, for the purpose of supplying warps to our woolen factory, where we maintain a colony of about twenty young men. ”

“ Our next enterprise was the establishing of a woolen factory, following the same course as in putting up the tan- nery procuring the building materials, doing the mason and carpenter work in the season when laborers would otherwise have been unemployed. This, also, added to our capital increasing the number of our stockholders without interrupt- n g any man's business. ”

“ Through this medium of exchange our employees pro- cure their breadstuff's, pork, mutton, beef, vegetables, clothing, boots and shoes, building materials, such as lumber, shingles, lath, lime, adobies, brick, etc., and pay their masons and car- penters, school bills, admission to concerts, theatres, lectures ”

“ From this exhibit a dividend on the invest- ments or capital stock is declared. The profit or loss of each department, of course, is shared equally by the stockholders.
We aim to furnish every person employment, wishing to work; and pay as high wages as possible mostly in home products. The past two or three years we have paid our employees five-sixths in home products and one-sixth in imported merchandise, amounting in aggregate, at trade rates, to about 160,000 (one hundred and sixty thousand) . ”

“ Home Manufactures. N. B. Good only to stockholders and employees of Brigham City.
Secretary.
Last year it cost $30,000 (thirty thousand) cash to carry on our business; half of this was paid to employees, in imported merchandise, one-sixth of their wages, the other for imported material, such as iron, horse shoes, nails, furniture, boot and shoe trimmings, paints, dye-stuffs, warps, etc., neces- sary in our business.
Labor is received from employees for capital stock, and dividends paid in home products, averaging about twelve per cent per annum, since starting our home industries. ”