The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-02

H--ffE ENTT Dtl2fGI NEWS, " a.
~ q -. rs guest of the
( E% SiSgg Brown hotel yes
II %~>s terday on his way
- to Utah TO begin
operations upon a large scale upon a
mountain of punice stone owned by
the company. Mi. Quigley says the
company Of which he is the head. owns
the only first class deposit of pumice
stone to be found on the continent
and if the tariff thinkers viii do the
patriotic thing this summer. the Italian
imported article viii disappear from
the market.
4 told the committee at Washing
ton, said ne, that / would put uD a
bond never to charge a higher price for
pumice stone than the Italians IL a
tariff is put on high enough TO show
for The American product. The Ital-
ians bring their product from the Lii
pari islands in the Mediterranean sea
10 this country in foreign vessels and
we derive no benefit from the imported
article until it is landed on the shores
of America. The conditions in respect
TO the Utah deposit are entirely differ
ent. There we will use American Ia
Dor, and the freight to Chicago, where
our plant is located for the treatment
OF the pumice. viii be quite a figure in
the course of year The importers are
whether any relief will be granted
through action of congress"
Mr.. Quigley says the mountain of
pumice is $50 miles south of Salt Lake
City and is the purest deposit of the
kind on The globe. He once heard of
similar find in Gunnison county, this
state, and went to the spot to make an
examination. The result was that the
Chicago company bought so acres in
Gunnison county and may go to work
In that region when business improves
He estimates that the Utah mountain
VIII yield an output of 200 tons a week
Tor an indefinite period. The stone is
mined py means of dynamite and taken
out IN blocks Of any size. as large
part of the material is ground into a
powder before it is placed upon the
market The mountain was discovered
by Professor Merrill OF the Smithsonian
institute y years ago while the pro-
lessor was exploring the district Ac-
cording TO the visitor, pumice is the
froth arising from volcanic eruption
under certain circumstances.
The Denver Republican, in an article
on the same subject says:
There is pumice stone enough in Mil
lard county, Utah, to supply the entire
United States market for many years
TO come, according to the story told
yesterday at the Brown Palace hotel
by James Quigley, president of the Chi
cago Pumice- company. That corpora
ton owns 120 acres of pumice beds in
the locality mentioned. thereby possess
ing monopoly of the most absolute
KIND, so far as this country is concern
ed Taking in the remainder of the
globe, il has a rival only in an Italian
company, which owns pumice beds in
the Lipari islands. a group of small
Islands in the Mediterranean. sea
IL IS not mere than Is months ago
since James Quigley and his business
associates first commenced working
their Utah bonanza. In the meantime
they have put I'D a factory for the
treatment Of its product at Sixteenth
and LOOMS streets. Chicago At first
their labors in putting the pumice into 1
marketable shape were largely expert
Now they have the plant in
full working order. and James Quigley
is on his way to Willard county for the |
Of increasing the force of
workmen there by so or 40 men. As a I
result OF his trip active shipping OF the 4
Dumice to Chicago for treat
ment VIII be carried on with all pos /
sible dispatch.
DISCOVERED BY A PROFESSOR.
The first discovery Of pumice in the
United States, according to James
Quigley. was made in Willard county. !
Utah, about four years ago by Pro-
lessor Merrill of the Smithsonian In
stitute at Washington. He and a corps
u engineers were making a geological
survey Of that section when they came
upon surface traces of pumice. This
important ind was made about $50
niles TO the south of Salt Lake Civ.
Nothing was done with it. however.
Until the Chicago Pumice company
oOk up 120 acres OF territory which
lovers the entire bed.
Prospecting was started Immediately,
nd Is months ago the first pumice was
tent east for treatment. I'VE had a
treat deal Of trouble at first said MI
euigley- in getting the proper process
Or pUGtinC the stone in shape for the
market. After erecting our factory and
'uJtlnE il 2 plant. one set Of ma
hinery proved entirely useless and had
0 be replaced. Since then We have
7ained experience and with our new
machinery We can turn out every man
fractured article OF pumice that can be
ouEd anywhere.
Before We were able to do anything
L all in the way of showing earnings
We had sunk Sl6i,00o in the factory and
at the quauies. Now we are
.bfe 10 compete with the Dumice that
5 imported from the Lipari isles. Fur ,
he-ncce. we are nre-ared wiki our /
american product 20 drive the Italian
ticle clean our OF the country.
THE ITALIAN QUARRIES.
For over 100 years the quarries on
be Linari isles have furnished pumice
Or the trade Of the whole world OF
curse we are ve-y much handicapped
ere. as the Italians work for from 80 ,
ents TO 60 cents a day, while we nav
Ugh wages to our workmen- Another /,
hing that ought 10 give the Italians /. .
ne best Of us is that they ship the
Ia r1En Dol .