Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-05-23
TO BUILD in PORTLAND
CEMENT MAKING PLANT TO BE
ESTABLISHED THERE.

ESTABLISHED THERE.
Supposed to BE BY Owners OF Oakdale
QuarrIes and Projected Oswego
Works.
Negotiations were started in Port
land a number of months ago for the
construction of a cement manufacture
ing plant at Oswego by the owners of
the large tract of cement rock land
in Oakdale, this county. A large num-
Der of Portland business men and a.
great deal of Portland money were
said to be interested, and it was sup
posed to be backed by the Portland
Cement Company, an immense cor
poration which controls plants
throughout the whole of the United
States. Lately crew of surveyors
have been selecting a route for a
branch line from Bridgeport station,
on the Salem. Falls City & Western
railway to the old rock quarry, on
the John Farley place in oakdale.
The appearance of the engineers has
excited renewed interest in the pro-
iect to develop the quarry and ship
the stone by the trainload to the
manufacturing plant, supposed to be
located at Oswego.
Plan Portland Plant.
A report published in the Oregonian
now has it that the plant is to be built
in Portland. Erection of a large ce-
ment manufacturing plant in Port
land. says that paper, is contemplated
| by several Portland capitalists repre-
sented by Aman Moore, general man
| ager of the Portland Cement Company
who conferred lately with p T, Lind
hard and Paul Larson, of New York,
| experts in the art of constructing
plants for this purpose. The New
York men were called to prepare es-
Inmates on the cost of construction
and the probable cost of operation.
Raw material can be obtained here
and transported to Portland by the
carload at a minimum cost. Lime
stone and clay are the two basic ma
|
cement is manufactured. These ma
terials can be obtained in great guam
tity at small cost
Mr.. Lindhard has had many years
experience in the building and opera
ton of cement manufacturing plants,
having prepared plans or superintend-
| ed the construction of more than a
score of Portland cement factories in
various parts of the country. He has
made many improvements upon the
old process, each time facilitating the
work and reducing the cost.
Latest Appliances.
In the construction of the proposed
plant in Portland he will introduce all
the latest appliances and will aim to
install machinery that will produce
the best results with the least loss of
material.
Recent developments have linked
this concern with the movement to
secure the industry for that city, and
Mr.. Moore has taken up the work of
making 1t a certainty.
Final arrangements have not been
made, but the New York men expect
to have the transaction completed be-
fore they leave, in which event ac-
tual construction operations would be
started the coming summer.
The Portland Cement Company has
bought a large tract of land in the
Kanes Creek district, west of Gold
Hill, in Jackson County. The consid-
GRAFTON was not announced. The land
contains valuable deposits of lime
stone and cement rock, and the COM
pany has had experts at work testing
the deposits during the last two
months. An option on the property
was obtained several months ago.
The tract embraces about $500 acres
and includes large amount OF tim
ber. There are also four miles of
road bed, one-third of which has been
laid with steel rails.
Demand Increasing.
Most of the cement now used In
Portland building operations is ship
ped in from California and the East
much of 1t coming by water from San
Francisco. 1t is pointed out that with
the raw material obtainable close at
hand and the finished product manu-
featured on the ground, the cost OF
building operations WIN be greatly re-
duced.
Not since the Introduction of Cal
ifornia cement I'm the construction Of
Portland buildings has the business for
single month reached the proper
tions attained during April when there
was unloaded on local docks a total OF
4S2.625 sacks. In April, 1910, 22s,s4O
sacks were unloaded and in April
1909. the movement reached l2,5OO
sacks.
From January to May there has
been received 1,0S2.5 sacks, against
664,3lg sacks in the same period last
year. For the entire season of 1907
y there were 59,44s sacks brought In,
and the movement was not material In
1908. but the following year II grew
to sOs.O13 sacks and in 1910 the ag-
y gregate was s.17s.64S sacks. The
first two seasons the importation oil
European cement was not seriously
interfered with, there having been
discharged here ss3.02s barrels in
: 1907 and 4Os, Os7 barrels in 1908. but
D In 1903 It fell on to ss,Os2 barrels. and
in 1910 improved somewhat the re-
. ceipts being Ice. AIS barrels.
History Of Trade.
Cement works were not known IN
this country until the year 1873. Up
20 that date all the cement used In the
United States was imported from Eng
land and Germany. Twenty-Five years
9 later. OF in 1900. we were making 50
Der cent OF all the cement used In the
world. Since that date the industry has
d grown marvelously.
There are three kinds known TO the
{ trade. Of Which the Portland is the
most familiar, 80 called because II
happens TO resemble a certain kind o.
gray rock found on the island OF Port.
land. on the English coast PortiAno
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