Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1912-03-22
ORGANIZED BYF. H,PERRY
and OTHERS AT OMAHA LAST WEEK
WITH CAPITAL OF -FOUR HUNDRED
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

nrst meeting OF directors was held
when Mr.. A G. Clas. of the firm of
Ferry & Clas, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,,
was elected President, and Mr.. F. Ii.
Perry, of Hot Springs, Vice President
and General Manager; Mr.. Ray Nye,
head of the firm Of Nye.Schnieder.
Fowler Company, Fremont, Nebraska,
Director and Chairman of Executive
Q. W. Todd of Rapid City,
was also elected a Director, and VIM.
A. jackson, Vice President of Nye and
Turner Company, of Omaha, was elect
ed Secretary and Treasurer.
The company will eventually have
offices in Chicago, New York and Seat
tie, but until the plant is built, the
head office will be at Hot Springs, 8.
d., In charge of Mr.. Perry, who will
be the General Manager. Ray Nye. A.
@. Clas, VIM. A. jackson and F. q.
Perry we're made an executive CON-
mittee and will have active control of
the corporation.
It was originally intended to connect
the name of Gypsum with the company
but the last reports of the eastern ex.,
perts, Who had bsen for six month ex.
perimenting and testing the raw ma.
terial, pronounced the same to be q
tine grade of alabaster. This will
place the company In a field of its own.
Since the organization of the COM
pany Mr.. Perry has had letter from
Dean Perisho, state geologist, in which
he writes, "You might be interested to
know that many times in my class and
elsewhere, have referred to the south
Dakota Gypsum as fine example of
Alabaster, not unlike that which made
the celebrated vases of the Orient,
very similar to the box which Mary
broke, which held the precious oint-
ment Not at all different from the
great bed Of Alabaster which made
that portion of Egypt which lies next
to the Nile, SO famous
The result of the experts pronouno-
ing this material to be alabaster lead
to the directors of the new company
determining to restrict themselves to
the manufacture of Keenes Cement
and other high grade plssters which
Gan only be made from alabaster or
pure white gypsum. The plant will be
b tilt right close to the deposit, six
miles west of Hot Springs, and the
name of the post office which will be
located there, will be 'Alabaster' in.
stead Of Gypsum as originally intend
cd. A side track already connects the
property with the @. B. & @ railroad
and the plant Is already in course of
erection.
For the active superintendent the
company has already engaged the SER
vices of the assistant manager of one
of the largest Keene's Cement Com
panies in England, who are the principal
exporters of Keene's Cement to the
United States. The company will be
very particular as to the high grade of
oA0AA RAooC0IS ouO Will 0ASO 00uul6C'
:ure dental plaster, plaster of paris.
moulding plaster and other high grade
plssters. They also expect to get quite
u i.maud for their aiaoaster for pur.
poses of art and interior decorations.
Mr.. Perry expects to retain his resi-.
dence in Hot Springs, but after the
plant is in operation, will be CON-
pelled to reside in Chicago for sever
al months every year.
As large amount of hydrated lime
will be used in the manufacture of
keene's Cement, the new company
will either build lime plant close to
Hot Springs or else consolidate it with
the lime plant already in operation at
Rapid City. It has been arranged for
the company to throw their waste
material into gypsum dreproof blocks,
which have become SO popular and
which are now made by the Y. y. Gyr-
sum Company in Rapid City aud Fort
Dodge, Iowa. BE- the company making
specisity Of Keen.'s Cement they
will not have the competition of the
big gypsum companies, as there Is
but one Kssns's Cement plant ct pres.