Arizona republican., 1910-08-18
PROSPEROUS INDUSTRY
 PROMISED ID PHOENIX LOCATION OF CEMENT MANUFAc- TURING PLANT MEANS MUCH
 FOR THE CITY.
Company Secures Services of Experts
 and Bright Future is Assured.

Losing not a minute in removing the
 cement mill recently purchased from the government at Roosevelt, and | bringing the material and machinery
 to the site secured on the Maricopa X i Phoenix railroad, just east of this city | and about one mile west of the Tempe bridge the Arizona Cement company promises to have in operation not later | than the first of the year one of the
 most important industries in the south west. It will be an industry so closely allied with Phoenix that. despite the fact that the plant is located a short
 distance outside the city limits, it will
 really be classed as an industry of | Phoenix.
 And, too. the fact that the principal
 offices of the concern are already open
 in the Fleming Block is but another link in the chain of circumstances connecting this industry with this city No more ideal site for the cement mill could be found in the southwest Located upon the Maricopa and Phoe-
 nix railroad and having direct access to the Arizona & Eastern railroad, the shipping facilities of the new concern will be superb. The company will be enabled to secure its power from the government power lines and the plant
 will be located in such proximity to
 Salt River as to insure an adequate supply of water for its needs in the
 manufacture of high grade Portland cement.
 The clay beds from which the re-
 quired supply will be taken are locat-
 ed at Winkleman and excellent facili-
 ties are at hand for shipment to the mill through the medium
 of the Arizona & Eastern Already satisfactory rate has been secured
 from the railroad company covering
 the handling of this clay. The power facilities available at the proposed site permits affecting a saving that will
 more than offset the cost of the haul of the clay from Winkleman and gives a central point from which the finished
 product may be handled.
 Other advantages of this location are
 to be found in the fact that it will be possible to land all the machinery and supplies at thfs point at a nominal cost The Tempe wagon road also passes the site. This road is destined to be- come one If the great highways of Arizona and with the approaching con- struction of a wagon bridge at the Tempe crossing will give farmers and
 others the opportunity of driving to the mill and buying their cement direct saving no small amount on the haul.
 The Arizona Cement company has secured the services of Paul F. Bovard, who as chemist for the government,
 has made all the cement that for the past four years has gone into the big dam at Roosevelt. MT. Bovard is sup ervising the removal and reconstruc- ton of the mill and has complete de-
 tails of the matter bearing on it. The company is particularly fortunate in securing the services of MT. Bovard for he has access to all the expense | sheets connected with the making of | the cement at Roosevelt and is fam iliar with the cost of maintaining the | plant during it's run and can there | fore give an almost exact figure on the
 probable cost of cement manufactured at the Salt River plant.
 F. L. Tupper has also been secured
 by the management to act in the same | capacity that he did at the Roosevelt
 mill MT. Tupper has been in charge | of the mechanical end of the mill and made it possible to manufacture Port
 land cement at Roosevelt at a cost that
 has saved the government a great sum.
 He will have active charge of the con
 struction of the new plant for the Ari-
 zona Cement company
 One of the heaviest stockholders and
 the president of the company is C. W. Grouse, who will be remembered by the
 old settlers as a probate judge in this county several years ago Frank | Pomeroy of Mesa is secretary and treasurer and J. J. Sweeney is the
 company's trustee.
 Once the mill is started it is beiiev-