Brigham City was the first important Mormon community to organize for cooperative activity under a system later incorporated in the United Order of 1874. About 30 or 40 branches of industry were established to provide employment for everyone by producing and manufacturing what the community consumed and used. The Co-Op began as a joint stock enterprise, with Elder Lorenzo Snow and three others subscribing 3000 from 1864 to 1880. Its branches included a hog farm, furniture department, butcher department, textile industry, millinery shop, boot and shoe factory, saddle and harness shop, two saw mills, wagon and carriage repair shop, tailor and fancy dry goods, farm, mulberry trees and silk worms, cotton farm, tin shop, pottery shop, broom factory, cooperage, brush factory, green house and nursery, wood turning, furniture department, blacksmith, planting mill, hats and caps, and rope factory. It operated in Brigham City for more than 15 years, profoundly influenced the history of Utah and surrounding Mormon areas, and was discontinued in 1880.