The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-22
THE ms AND OUTS OF
CEMENT PRODUCTION
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cement works and the new coal business
IN which he is embarking. Mr.. Moran is
sun the klngpin of contractors. Three
blocks east of the cement plant are Mr.
moran - material yards, barn, wagon
sheds and the like. The barn is a
model. II has accommodations for
more than 200 horses aud is eauippei
with automatic fire eXtinguishers, 81
that hls stock is never in danger. These
lre 'sprinklers' occur at intervals OF
seven feet, and should FIRE happen to
break out the place would be drencbed
before any damage could be done. Their.
are numerous doors, and this would rem
der easy the removing of the horses In
case of IRE, At this time Mr.. MosiB
has about 100 horses.
The pensioning of "Bill.''
The feed for these animals is stored
in great loft, and is bought by CON
tract. 1t comes to the barn in carload
lots and its quality is the best. The
Moran yards have railroad connections,
there being tracks all about the
grounds.
In a box stall in a choice corner
of the Moran stable is ''Biiin "Bill''
is Is years old, lie is handsome dark
bay. The chief characteristic about
him now is that he has been placed on
a pension and is no longer required to
work.
~ drove Bill ten years as hard as
any horse was ever driven said Mr..
Moran. "He's the finest animal / ever
saw for the work required of him. !
thought that ten years of good service
ought TO deserve some reward, so
put him on pension. Now he doesn t
even have 10 exercise unless he feels
like it.''
There are two other driving horses
in Bill IS neighborhood, one of which
has mark as trotter.
Moran's Contracting Work.
At this time Mr., Moran has more
than 1000 men on contract work; these
are in addition TO the cement plant
force, The asphalt plant in City Creek
canyon operated by Mr.. Moran is turn
ing out 80 tons of asphalt every day
and this is spread on the streets as fast
as it is delivered. All told, Mr. Mo-
ran has to his creditor will have when
the work now under way is completed
-twentyone miles Of paving in this
city. The asphalt used at the plant
comes from California, but all of the
other materials, sand and the like,
comes from the immediate vicinity of
Salt Lake. AS the asphalt itself con-
stitutes only a small fraction of the
material, it will be seen that "Pat
Moran is not only a believer IN home
industry, but practices it, as well.
In passing it may be mentioned that
before the first of the year rolled
around Mr.. Moran had all the work
that could be taken care of during the
year.
"You see," he said "when we get
our forces to working, we can { stop:
we have TO keep going and to keep go.
ing we have to have the JOBS. So |
made it a point TO get the contracts
before the first of the year. Moran s
contracting work amounts to total OF
more than $l,000,000 every year.
In addition to his cement business
and his contracting business, Mr.. Mo
ran is a director in the Keith-O 'Brien
company, one Of the incorporators and q
director of the new National Copper
bank. and has other interests in Salt
Lake. 1t will be seen, therefore, that
he is fairly busy citizen, but he al
ways wears the smile that won I come
Ioff and when the city or anybody else
gets into trouble or wants ANYTHING
done, Moran's the doctor called on tho
case.