Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 3, 1965

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The old tannery as it appears today. As part of the Brigham City cooperative program, the tannery produced leather which was reputed to be "equal in quality to the best Eastern oaked tanned leather." An extension of the tannery in 1870, the shoe factory soon after it was founded ployed 30 workers who by 1877 had produced $132,000 worth of merchandise. U T A H STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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