Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-06
Manufacturing Made simple.

these men were formerly with the Newaygo
Cement company in Michigan.
MRnufacturing Made Simple.
The process OF manufacture is rather
simple. The mari and clay. in the proper
ton of five cars of mari to one of clay,
are taken from the deposit by steam exca-
vator by the tralnload and dumped into the
pug mills, where BY the addition OF water,
a stiff slurry is produced. which is forced
by compressed air to iron tanks, fifteen
feet by twenty feet. The surry in these
reservoirs Is constantly sampled and tested
in order to maintain a uniform mix"
Then the slurry is passed through a tube
mill to prove the mix as no grinding Is
really necessary, the new material being
fine enough to pass through 1OO-mesh
screen. Again the sturry Is transferred by
compressed air to giant storage tanks and
kept constantly agitated by air until re-
leased into a feed trough from which the
heavy stream of mud, as the unnltated
would term the slurry pOurs into two
hns-mighty reverberatory furnaces seven
and a half feet N diameter, 100 feet long
and lined with friedrich, each Weighing 100
tons. These ponderous furnaces slowly re-
volvng and set on an inclined plane, are
swept internally by a flame which is fed
by pulverlzed, coal driven by a blast of
powerful strength, and out of these kilus
roll the clnkers of about pea size, which,
transported by a bricket conveyor to a
rotary cooler and again taken up by con-
veyors, is sent through the Sturtevant ring
roll mills, to be ground to a pulp, prelim-
mary to entering a second tube mill The
pebbles serve as grinders
Pebbles Serve as Grinders.
The grinding in this huge cylinder IL
done by flinty pebbles about the size of
hens egg, which are Imported from Bel
GUM, these pebbles and an occasional car
load OF gypsum and the fuel being the only
raw material not found on the ground.
After passing through a Newaygo sepa-
rator TO assure uniformity Of fineness the
cement. In a finished state. is carried by a
belt conVeyor into the stock house, a build
ing Of large size, where $1,000 barrels Of
cement is now being stored, and adjoining
which a new house of equal storage ca
pacity, 10 be equipped with conveyors con
Meeting with twenty different bins and
capable Of blending the product, is being
constructed.
Cement from this plant of the Ogden
Portland Cement company, branded with
the beehive" Utah's distinguishing symbol
OF industry and excellence, is shipped by
the carload as far north as Montana and
the panhandle of Idaho to distributing
agents finding ready sale for the product
through some eighty lumber yards.
The headquarters Of the company are in
ogden and considerable money is dlsbursed
each month through the local offices.
There are sixty men employed and plans
are being perfected for a second unit TO be
added to the factory, which will call for
more men and a much larger payroll
Farmers, who a few years back We're
skeptlcal as to the success Of dry farming
I'm the semi-arid region, are now offering
a bonus OF as much as $500 to those who
can direct them to land obtainabe under
the SmOot enlarged homestead law, which
allows any citizen, who has not exhausted
his homestead rights, to locate 800 acres
Of land in this state and other sections Of
the west where the land has been sep
arated and designated as non-irrigable.
Recently 10000 acres OF dry farming
land, a part OF a large tract heretofore
held as a cattle range, was placed on the
market and sold at an average price Of
$40 per acre. within seventeen days.
Spectator in these lands lately pur-
chased west Of ogden, 5000 acres Of rail-
road land. a part of the original twenty
mile land grant Of the old Central Pacific
Railroad company paying $3.50 an acre
He sold IL 20 dry farmers at an advance
OF $40, making a profit OF $s0OOO in less
than thirty days.