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1869 March Letter to W. H. Rector

Title

1869 March Letter to W. H. Rector

Description

Importing cotton is lucrative but Brigham desires the Saints to raise the raw materials needed to manufacture their own fabrics.

Type

Correspondence

Sender

Brigham Young

Recipient

W. H. Rector

Date

1869 March

Location

Salt Lake City
Oakland, California

Subject

Manufacturing

 

Salt Lake City, U.T.

Mr. W.H. Rector,
Oakland, Cal.

Dear Sir:-

Your communication with reference to Cotton & Woollen Machinery has been received.

It is true that we are Operating both Cotton & Wollen Machinery & may import more; but if we do, it will be new Machinery with the latest improvements.

We experience much the same difficulty that you allude to in Manufacturing -- our capitalists are generally more interested in importing than producing; the latter not being considered a paying business. We hope however to be able to persevere till we can raise the raw material & manufacture our own fabrics. Silk, Woollen & Cotton.

Thanking you for your proposition,

I remain
Yours with respect

Brigham Young