The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30

CAPITAL STOCK 100000,
WITH SHARES 81 EACH
Immense Deposit of Silica and
Clay Near Draper to Be
Worked.

With a capital stock Of 100000 IN
| 81 shares, the Utah Silica Brick and
Fire Clay company was launched in this
city yesterday.
The company is officered as follows:
DR.. j. S. Sharp, president; II, X. Mas
ters, vice president; S, r. Neel, secre-
tary; II. B. Cole, treasurer. These,
with William OdeH, constitute the direc'
torate of the company.
| The company's property consists or
1400 acres of patented land near ORA
per. The purpose Of the company Is to
manufacture silica sand and lime brick
and all fire clay products, There is
mountain OF almost pure silica and one
of fire clay, according to 5. Il. Neel,
who has had charge of the formation
of the company. Samples of silica
brought from the property show 9S
per cent pure The deposit is easy of
access and within one.fourth of mile
of the railroad.
Silica as material for making brick
! is known in several western states
! There are plants in Colorado turning
out the finished brick OF which many
of the new buildings in Denver and
eastern cities are built. In tests, the
brick made by compression stands a
crushing pressure of 100000 pounds as
compared to a pressure of $500 for
the ordinary fire brick In these tests
made by Prof. T., II. Beckstrand, me-
chanical engineer Of the University of
Utah. it has been found that the silica
pressed brick withstood pressure of
| 62TO pounds TO. the square inch. The
best kiln brick stood 1880
Process of Manufacture.
In the process Of making brick that
will be used by the new company, each
brick will be perfect in shape and size,
with all sides perfectly smooth and
finished. Builders say this means a
world of labor saved. Not only will
the brick be turned out uniform in size
and shape, but In any one of fourteen
colors. The silica found at Draper is
of that number of colors. Tests of
| absorption have been made on sample
bricks, showing that silica pressed
brick placed in water for six days in.
creased in weight eleven ounces, while
a kiln clay brick increased twenty two
ounces under the same treatment. A
local architect, in commenting on the
| silica pressed brick as a building ma
terial IN climates where there are wide
ranges OF temperate ture. cites school
building In Montana, where the tenn
perature stood 40 degrees above zero
at O'Clock one morning, with rain
At 10 O'Clock, two hours later. the
rain bad stopped and the temperature
was 20 below zero. This building has
stood over two years, says the archi-
tect, and there is every proof that the
silica brick is able to withstand anv
climatic change and that without
change of color or surface in any de.
gree.
To Erect Big Plant.
The company will erect a plant at
Draper with a capacity of 10000 brick
day. Under the system used twelve
hours after the brick is nodded IL is
ready TO be shipped. The plant will
be built TO double or treble the output
at any time. Improved pressed brick
machinery will be installed. According
to Mr. Neel, the company Will be able
to supply all demands in Utah for
BRICK for inside and outside work. In
fact he says the plant will be able to
turn out every kind OF material used
IN the construction of buildings, and
there VIII be no necessity TO ship such
material in from California at HIGH
prices. The brick will be placed on the
market at from 81 TO $50 thousand. i;
is said
The company will develop its fire
clay properties as rapidly as possible
According to experts, the deposits of
silica and fire clay are the best known
IN the country 1T is in unlimited sup.
plles..-whole mountains of it merely
waiting TO be taken out and used
visitors to the property Of the company
say IT is one more instance of the mn.
told resources that are within a stone :
throw of the confines Of Salt Lake pl
most, and the people standing idle LET
ting outsiders come in and develop
them.
Everywhere that silica has been used
for brick ii is a decided success. aver
the members of the new company. There
rs no reason, they contend. why Utah
should not make this one Of the great
est industries. Stock in the new com
pany VIII be placed on the market al
once.