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There was a nail factory in Payson in 1858. It was owned by David Sabin Sr. and David Sabin Jr.David Sabin Jrs. Folks moved to Payson. He joined them and made his home there. His father had began to build a machine shop on the Payson Creek. Among the machines was one made for cutting nails. The knife for it was bought in the east, but all the other parts were made by hand. This plant gave David much work. His father hammered out the iron into long, flat pieces, varying in width and thickness according to the length and size of the nails to be made. David guided the iron under the powerful knife that cut the nails. The nails were square.In the early stages of this nail making business the nails had to be picked up, one at a time and placed in a clamp, and headed by striking with a large hand hammer. Later, David Sabin Sr. invented a device that caught the nails as they came sliding down a chute, clamped them, and headed them all by machinery.

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