The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-27
WILL MANUFACTURE
PORTLAND CEMENT
New and Important Industry to
Be Established at Brig
ham City.
SUPPOSED ALKALI FLAT
VALUABLE PROPERTY
Soil Contains II Per Cent Of
Carbonate of Lime, and
Magnesia Also.
speclal to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
OGDEN. Nov. 26.-H. c. Baker, pres
ident and general manager OF the wa
satch Mining company, whose mines are
located twenty three miles north OF Og-
den, went east this afternoon on the
Overland Limited to Chicago, In con
ncction with his departure new IN
dustry is to result In Utah. ana whcn
he returns he will be in a position to eN-
neDd q LARGO sum in the erection Of a
plant for the manufacture or fortlano
cement. ~
Every passenger on the trains OF the
Oregon Short Line has seen and looked
with regretful eyes on Box Elder, thao
white patch on the earth s surface north
and west of Brigham, where absolutely
no vegetation exists. 1t has always
been regarded as an alkall nat. lts
area is about 1000 acres. 1t ls not al,
kali, but pure carbonate or lne, ana
this information was released this ar
tcrpoon by Mr. Baker just before his
departure to Chicago, where he Wall
make the final arrangements Tor the
construction of plant for the working
of this immense deposit.
Immense Body Lime Carbonate.
1t was in 1900 when Mr.. Baker began
The work of exploring this immense
tents under an analysis made six years
ago, and of subsequent analyses by the
Zyrnotechnical Institute of Chicago,
and by other experts OF the earths.
showed II per cent OF carbonate OF
lime, very light percentage OF magne-
sia and considerable percentage of the
silicate of alumina. making, according
TO the reports Of the experts who have
examined deposit, and as every cement
man knows, an ideal aggregation of the
clements necessary Tor the manulacture
Of Portland cement.
For The past four or five years Mr..
Baker has been securing this immense
area, and has been prospecting 1t. de
has found the depth of the deposit to
average eight feet over the entire lake.
Among other experts who have exam
ined and reported on the unusual oc-
currence is Prof. w. J. Bell of Michi-
gan, one OF the recognized high author
ities of the elements of cohesive earths.
His report was to the effect that it was
the purest natural aggregation Of the
necessary elements that he had ever en-
countered, and he pointed out the addl-
tional fact that the underlying hard
clay-almost q hardpan-was the essen
tiai base of the cement This makes the
big Box Elder lake one OF the biggest
deposits of the constituent elements
of good cement on the continent, and
Mr.. Baker has acquired title to all of II.
Instead Of being nlkali, as has been
supposed TO be the case all these years,
il is the supcrabundance of carbonate
of lime that has prohibited the growth
Of vegetation. MI Baker has been in
communication with the best cement
experts in America, and they state that
a plant of twenty years life, with a
daily capacity of 1000 barrels, can be
operated for seventy-fve years on this
deposit. Cement manufacturers, or
those who invest their money In these
enterprises, usually make their invest
mcnts in the twenty-year possibilities,
and the results of their inquiries
into the deposits described, are that
Box Elder holds nearly four times the
twenty-year limit.
Will Erect Big Plant.
By the first Of the year company
will be organized, through the agency
OF Mr.. Baker, by Chicago investors, and
it is the intention to erect plant next
spring of 1000 barrels daily capacity.
Mr.. Baker was asked if this, in addi-
ton TO other plants now getting ready
for operation, would not glut the mar
ket and make cement too cheap for q
profit, and he replied: "Never in the
world Cement is the construction ma
terial hereafter. All the new structures
Of the great cities arc being made OF