Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-06-09
ALL INGREDIENTS OF
PORTLAND CEMENT IN
ONE 2-SECTION TRACT
Raw Material for 5000 Barrels
Per Day for Period of One
Hundred Years.

Rapid City, S. D., May 31.-Western
5outh Dakota has long been known as
he greatest cattle range in the world,
The mines of the Black Hills have
oeen famed from the beginning OF their
! history.
The last FIVE a have been filed
with developments in another utrec-
ton which bid fair to make the vast
resources of this region the basis for
a vast gathering Of an Industrial pe0-
pie.
The real beginning Of all this dates
from the consolidation of the small
light and power companies in the upper
Hills. Not until the Dakota Power
company, who are more or less closely
allied with the Westinghouse people,
began the subsection of the waters in
any real tendency towards manufac-
turing in the Black Hills.
AT this time the largest saw mill
west of the Missouri river, the only
complete packing plant in a grazing
country, and W brick plants, running
"a hours a day; two modern gypsum
mills and n fixture factory represents
The purely manufacturing plants.
However, the dream of the biologists
s about to be realized in the oyercom-
ing Of the fear Of the long distance
market through the advantages gained
through having all Of the raw material
'equired In manufacture of Portland
cement located upon n tract of land.
Many companies have been formed
and fallen upon the rocks OF easy
money through sales of stock under the
Usual promotion schemes.
Some years ago two young men Sc
.ured two sections of and and by care
FULLY saving their money laid by funds
enough to make a complete investiga-
ion and found that they had lime,
gypsum and shale, all OF the highest
quality and In quantities sufficient to
iced a 5000 barrel mill making Port
and cement for 100 years.
Their persistence brought the in
svitable result OF offered support and
hey readily sold their stock locally
md obtained the money necessary to
)ay for the first units in the installa-
ion of their mills.
For a mile on one side OF the North
western tracks. they hold a mountain
" limestone; on the other side OF the
rack runs a mile-Iong ridge of pure
gypsum; over the hill back of the gyp-
rum, lies 60 acres OF the finest shale,
perfectly adapted to cement produc-
lou.
Up to date, the immense lime kiln,
.hree in one, the size OF a three-story
business block and the open quarry
.epresent the expenditure of 10000.
July ]. 1,400 bushels Of lime viii go
through the ~hydrators daily. The work
On the gypsum mill will be begun and
the plant completed and running full
capacity by October, 1912.
This IS the first plant west of the
Missouri river north of Kansas and
Missouri using the continuous hydrat-
ing process.
The Rapid City Gypsum, Lime and
Portland Cement company is a close
corporation. The stockholders, John
J. Farrar, president; V. L. Smith, vice
president; Samuel Candy, secretary; V.
L. Jepsen, treasurer, and f. w. Brown,
director, are all under middle age and
heir action in combining all OF their
.esources to make this $500 900 plant a
ocal institution with no scandals, o
n opportunity for any, is taken as
he beginning of a great development
II industrial activity in the gateway of
he Black Hills.