Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-24
UTAH MADE CEMENT.
II is Fully Equal 10 The Best The
Word Can Produce.
THE PLANT IN OPERATION HERE.
Our state Has Another Grand Success
In Home Iudusiry--$170,00)
Year TO Utah.

generally hedged around by obsta Giles,
and particularly is this 30 with com-
mercial Undertakings 10 new countries
where money is scarce anu the natural
resources undeveloped. But patient.
persistert and well.directed effort
overcomes, one by one, these obstacles
and success In the END falls at her feet.
Such has been the experience OF most
deserving enterprise, namely, tho
Utah Portland Cement Company. Its
struggle with adversely has dragged
through elk long years, and years Of
especially Encouraging conditions.
In 1880 a company OF local men
undertook to manufacture cement
from the native stone found In tho
endless resources OF our mountains,
and the genuine quality of the ma
terlal was at once demonstrated. Two
years later Messrs. Cairns and La Due,
eastern experts In the manufacture OF
real Portland cement came this way
and Investigated tue work uBderiaksn
by the home company. Their discov.
cries in the laboratory gave them all
the announcement needed 80 far as
the capabilities OF cur native material
were concerned. They negotiated for
a Fifty years. lease OF the pla ut, sltu-
ateI on the II. q. track at Eighth
South street, and also the Quarrles We.
longing to the company.
30 assured VI success were these gen.
tlt men that they nj once secnrej the
investment Of eastern capital and In
cJrp0rated the concern. A new anu
costly kiln was erected with the guar.
sntee from the con ractcr that 1t would
do the desired work, but 1t fnilet In
this und put the corporation not only
to the ant oyance u lonKSdelsy but
great expense. Being disappointed,
ana funJs low, failure seemed almost
inevitable without additional aid.
Like Palissy the potter, iuel pottery
AID credit consumed, with success
atili III tue dim iuture. They hesitated
for moment. But tue material, like
his lost art, had not disappointed them,
II WIS their working OF IL that was al
fault.
Continued confidence In the posi-.
biIities OF the material moveu the
| company to construct new kiln,
which was the one thing necessary -
the production OF cement seo0nu 10
| none In present use. This was done,
aud q natural ueath averted by the
| friendly Investment CT additi Jnal capl-
tai. The construction Of this kiiu
after the MODELS OF eastern factorie1
was completed this spring AMI the
sctoIy 10 at present in iuil operation
anu i. producing an article equal to
the sanguine desires OF the projectors.
The cement manufactured has been
put to the teve rest teste anu 10 equal II
not superior to any imported cement
such as the English or German.
The SUCCESS OF thie enterprise means
to Utah the saving OF home capital to
the amount Of $4,000 annually and
tho employm ent OF many men. The
day Is long passed wherein 1t could be
said that no good thing can come out
OF Utah.
cement L can consoientiousIy recon-.
mend 1t for all purposes wherein
cement 10 used" says Mr.. Elias Nor
RE, one Of the originsl members OF the
company. City Engineer Kelsey also
gives Il mis- highest. recommendation.
In fact the Utah cement is q perfect
article, and what is encouraging for
lis successful manufacture Is the fact
that 1t 10 put on tie market cheaper
than the present price OF the imported
cement.
The material for the cement comes
from Parley's canyon, about four miles
from the mouth, where there are vast
quantities OF perfect cement stone.
Toe materln! Ia taken to the cement
works on Fifth West street, aud
thtIe Is ground and mixed In the right
proportions. In tue quarries some OF
the stone has too much lime, some too
little. Inis has 10 be regulated,
and at the works Is done by
the most careful chemical
tests. Then the material is baked in
bricks, being hardened like cliukers.
1t is then ground up and prepared for
marzet.
Und,r the process with the old
kiln, which was Improperly made, q
high grade article was not always So
cureu. Now 1t comes every time, the
new kiln working 10 perfection.
An experienced man, brought from
OF his superior .kiii, directs the
furnace operations and every
time high class cement comes from
the kiln. AS at the Lehi sugar fac
tory every run 10 OF the beat sugar In
the market, so at the cement works,
evsTy lot OF cement is above the stand
ard tests for tensile strength.
Whea the Butte COMMITTEES was
here, tests were made with the Utah
and imported dement's In competition.
In every instance the Ulan
article proved the equal or superior;
not once did 1t fall back. The result
is that when Butte goes to work with
Its psvements, 10000 barrels OF Utah
cement will be wanted iLr the WORK
now projected.
The Utah cement eau be furnished
10 Montana, Idaho, Colorado, and
Wyoming, in composition with the
Portland cement from abroad; ana the
article produced here Is superior TO
anything OF the kind In Western
Americs. II this cement works had
been In operation rs now when Salt
Lake was using go much Portland
cement, not barrel OF 1t would have
been condemned under the tests
which ruled out carloads Of the impor.
tRtion.
Hon. Elias Morris was the pioneer
worker OF the cement here. He
I was who first cent samples
from Parey's canyon quarries
10 New Mexico to ia lesteu;