Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-03-28
BEGIN CEMENT PLANT
OWNERS OF OAKDALE ROCK TO
BUILD OSWEGo FACTORY.

BUILD OSWEGO FACTORY.
Z Expect to Have Part of 1t In Active
Operation by First of Next
January.
Considerable interest is being mani
tested here by the published an
nouncement that the Portland Cement
of it's proposed mammoth cement
manufacturing plant at Oswego with
in 80 days. This local concern in the
i affairs of the company is due to the
fact that its principal source of ce-
ment rock is situated in Oakdale
about four miles west of Dallas, and
that the active operation of the Os-
wego plant is supposed to mean
! corresponding activity at the compa-
ny's property here. Information has
been given out at various times that it
was intended to employ several hun
dred men in the Oakdale quarries, and
two surveys have been made for rail
connection between there and Dallas |
AS such an increase in the Industrial
life of this locality would mean much
to this city and the territory tributary
thereto, the news is of unusual i'm
port and further statements as to the
progress will be awaited anxiously.
With $525,00O of Eastern money
behind the Portland Cement Company,
work on the plant will commence
within 80 days, according to Aman
Moore, president of the organization
Mr.. Moore declares he has induced
number of his friends in Denver Ell
Paso, Los Angeles and New York to
invest in the Portland concern, and
that they have acquired majority of
the stock
The company began the construc-
tion of a large cement manufacturing
plant at Oswego last April. The site
was obtained and material to build the
plant was ordered. Although Spencer
B. Newberry a cement expert of San
dusky, Ohio, had reported favorably
on soil the last year was occupied by
the Portland Cement Company in core
drilling and exploring the properties
at Oakdale and elsewhere. Within the
last 80 days another cement expert,
Professor Richard K. Meade, of Allen
town, Pennsylvania, was employed tol
examine the properties. He has just
sumbitted a favorable report substan-
tiating that of Mr.. Newberry.
Vast Sums Invested.
Mr.. Moore, the newly-elected pres-
dent, says $4,000 was invested last
April, and that $525,000 more has
been put into the company lately by :
his Eastern friends. 3
Although it usually takes a year to ,
construct a cement manufacturing {
plant, Mr.. Moore declares he will have :
a unit of the new plant manufacturing
cement by next January. 1t will have ,
capacity of 1900 barrels a day. The I
work of building the second unit will Y
be started before the first one is COM
pleted.
Two kilns 10 and II feet in dame s
ter and 200 feet long which it is plan A
ned to construct, will be the second 7
largest in the world. The weight of 7
the kiln when filled with material will A
be 62,500 tons. Without the lining 7
the kiln will weigh 2S,500 tons. The
largest cement kilns in the world are
those of the Atlas Portland Cement
Company. They are 10 feet in dame
ter ana 257 feet long g
Texas Plant Followed Il
The same kind of a plant will be Y
built here as constructed at El Paso. c.
Texas Mr.. Moore supervised the con- Ii
struction of that plant He built a
plant at Portland, Colorado. and man. Il
aged it for eight years. Mr.. Moore IL
also built the plant at Devil Slide, m
Utah. He is still a director of the El al
Paso company and of the company N
operating a plant at Trident, Montana.
The office of the Portland Cement W
will be moved to Oswego Il
April 1. 81
The company will also construct a sa
ime plant at Gold HILL Oregon, where a
I has acquired large lime deposits, and IT,
will put in a one-unit plant as soon pI
rs conditions justify It, 1t has also al
purchased cement properties in Rose
burg. Rufus and Marquam. in addition
he property here. For the Oswego
plant power will be purchased from
he Mount Hood Railway & Power X
company
officers of the new company are:
President and general manager Aman
Moore, to succeed Walter Burrell and
;. G. Titus; treasurer. DR.. Andrew c. us
smith, to succeed f. G. Titus; assist te
mt secretary. William L. Brewster, to OF
ucceed Legrand Richards. The new he
y-elected board Of directors Is: c. in
.eonard, Los Angeles; James ID. OF
schuyler. Los Angeles; Alfred Ander- re
on. New York City; J. Wallace. New av
fork city; ]. G. Meacham, Racine, u
Wis; c. w. Nibley. Salt Lake city; n
:. X Boettcher. Denver; r. p. Butch ei'
rt. Victoria. b. G; Cecil b. Smith, Ell
'oronto. Canada: w J. Kerr. Corval- FIR
is; DIR. Andrew G. Smith, Aman III
foore. Dr. Charles c. Moore. Isham Tel
:. Smith and Writ Minor. ge
Prominent Men Interested. We
The stockholders OF prominence
rho invested in the company lately
nd who are now said 90 have a con- an
rolling interest in the stock are; "a
ames ID. Schuyler. a member Of -
resident Taft's advisory board OF en- "
fneers on the Panama Canal; Carl 80
.eonardt. president Of the South ~
-estern Portland Cement Company an -,
Z Fl Paso. Texas. and a resident OF -
,os Angeles: Victor Q. Smith. presi- 'i'
ent Arrowhead Water Company, San
.ernardino. Cal. Charles Roettcher. Sc
resident Colorado Portland Cement az
.ompany Denver. J. Wallace. a mem '''
er of the Cotton Exchange. New
-ork CITY. C.. X Boettcher. Of BOett-
her. Porter A. Co. Denver; whitney
-euton. vice president of Colorado We
,ortiand Cement Co. Denver; Harry I'M
/. James and John p. Campion. direct to
RS of Denver National Bank; ?. s. Ge
.,.-rr. f-sa~aasfrF fr the Denver Post. tn