Our Christening ----- Valley Tan -----

First published Friday, November 6, 1858 in Kirk Anderson's Valley Tan

This name will doubtless excite some curiosity in the “States” as to what it signifies, and we will therefore make an explanation.

Valley Tan was first applied to the leather made in this Territory in contradistinction to the imported article from the States; it gradually began to apply to every article made, or manufactured, or produced in the Territory, and means in its strictest sense, home manufactures until it has entered and become an indispensable word in our Utah vernacular, and it will yet add a new word to the English language. Circumstances and localities form the mint from which our language is coined; and we therefore stamp the name and put it in circulation.