Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-09-28

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again, and if there is a stone crusher in
the peighborhood he can utilize in
making his concrete the old stone wall
of the neighborhood, or the thousands
of stones that are constantly being inn
pelled to the surface of the choicest
pasture lands.
Building by concrete does away with
MANY of the city's noises. The terrific
pounding OH steel girders that marks
The erection of a metal building is alb
cent when concrete is used. In fact ,one
apartment of hotel has been occupied
with complete absence of any discom-
fort to the guests while new walls CT
concrete were being put up within a
few feet.
The big railroads are all adopting the
cement bridge. 1t is cheaper, more en-
during, more quickly erected, and it re-
leases the builders from slavery to the
steel mills.
The tremendous boom in cement build
ing is shown by the difference in the
output of cement now and eight years
ago. In 1897, this country prodused
about a million and half barrels. Last
year this had crown to twenty-six and
a half million, and the total for 1906
will exceed even this great amount.
fortunately the supply is virtually
unlimited. The Lehigh Valley region
in Pennsylvania alone can turn out
10000, 900 barrels year indefinitely.
Cement was found in this country as
early as 1850, and was first used by the
Lehigh Valley Coal and Navigation
Company.
The great Pennsylvania cement belt
extends from Fogelsvill, Lower Macun-
gle, to the Lehigh Valley River at Cap
lay 1t runs III northeasterly direc-
ton, and is the same belt that later
crops out in New Jersey. One comp
any alone employs an army OF some
Il 600 men in connection with tho
manufacture of its cement. There are
five prominent companies, and their
investment is being constantly lncreas
ed, for the demand for cement has
forced them to erect new mills, and to
install new machinery, whose value
AS in blast furnaces, the chemist is
the most important factor, so IN the
manufacture of Portland cement the
chemists employed in these mills repre-
sent the top notches i'll their profession
Portland cement is simply combina-
ton of argiliaceous limestone with the
natural cement rock; but, 10 secure the
necessary high tensile strength, ground
to the utmost tineness, with uniform
ity of color thus assuring that all con
struction work will improve in strength
by age aud stand forever, if 50 required)
all demanding analytical skill OF the
highest order.
There is much of the romantic in the
discovery and Development of the ce-
ment region in this country AS well as
in Northampton. Farmers who for
wears had succeeded in making only a
bare living from the stubborn soil sud
denly found themselves rich beyond
the widest flights oftheir imagination
Barren, rocky soil, on which the wild
carrot, the golden rod and the Canada
thistle wtr; always the most bountous
haryests, and where the tiller of the soil
often cursed the rock which was yet 10
prove his fortune, sold for hundreds of
dollars per acre.
One farmer sold his land for 500 900,
and placing no trust in men or banks,
made them give him the money IN
cash.
d. O. Saylor was the pioneer of the
cement industry in Pennsylvania, and
the mill in which he made the first
Portland cement is still standing.
The average price for good cement
rock is about $500 an acre, but the sol
that has limestone in it is >irtually
worth almost any money 1t even
pans out to beat gold, for good acre
of limestone land will pan out for its
owner $40 or $50 per day. An enor-
nous amount of limestone rock is
brought into the cement belt from Sun
Vile, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Once the rock is taken out of the
earth, everything in the manufacture
of cement is done automatically. Ma
camery carries it to the roasters; from
the roasters it is carried to the crushers
from the crushers it goes TO the store
house, and from there to the sacks or
uarrels without having been touched
by tile workmen.- Brooklyn Eagle.
War Against CONSUMPTION.
An naucrs me s.oeavo1i' 9 t.
check 'hc raNaY,, cf cor sumption,
he '.Aij'e plague that claus soc
rauv victims each year. Foley S