The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1915-07-30
FIGURES AS To
GYPSUM GIVEN
NUCH LOCAL INTEREST BECAUSE
OF EMERY COUNTY ACTIVITY.
'"'"rado Company Acquires Large
crc"gc aud Immense Deposits In
cedar Mountain section aud Now
Nhou Ready For Putting In Mm
To Prepare Deposits Tor Market.

ln view " the interest being shown
~ the development 81 large gypsum
deposits throughout Eastern Utah and
especially In the Cedar Mountain Sec
uon Of Emery county by +. ~ Priest
and the Colorado Gypsum company.
ANYTHING bearing on that industry h.
~ this time interesting According to
q. F. Loughlin. ~ the United States
geological survey. the production OF
gypsum iu the United states in 1914
was marked by decrease In tonnage
but an Increase In value. an Increase
Que 90 strong advance In the price
ot calcined gypsum. which more than
offset "a decline In price of crude gyp.
sum.
The quantity ~ crude gypsum min.
90 IN the United States lon 1914 was 2. d.
1896 short tons. compared with g.
bHN.5oN tons reported mined IN 1914.
decrease ~ i23.Ot3 tons The gyp-
sum sold without caicininE and used
principally as land plaster aud AZ an
ingredient In Portland cement and
paint amounted ~ tt3.gs7 short tons
valued at tGt7.7pg. a decrease " H..
4ib tons In quantity and shO.2GT In
I HfA'HfH W NAANNAtAA NNHHN Win NNN ~ MnNn
the gales FOR similar purposes amount.
| Cd 10 f63.i36 short tons. valued ut
f6tI.O66. The material marketed as
calclned plaster was i.6bG. O6s short
tons. valued at t6.2i9.ieo. ~ com.
pared with i.773.Sie tons. valued at
f6.o175sG. rold caicincd In 1919. The
total value of all gypsum marketed In
1914 was t6.S9S.gss. ~ compared
with ts.77ls22 In 1918. an Increase
Of tt2t.tG7.
Considerable quantities ~ gypsum
plaster. or staff" we're used In the
panama-pacific exposition buiidings
az San Francisco and In the Panama
California exposition buildings at san
Diego. but they we're not sufficient TO
offrrt the general decline In tonnage
elrowhcrc. Gypsum was produced In
eighteen states and IN Alaska IN 1914.
the rame states reporting output In
this year as In 1913. Tho relative rank
81 the three leading states has remain
cd unchanged Tor the last four years.
New York ranking first. Iowa second.
and Michigan third In the output 81
crude gypum. The total quantity Of
culcinod gypsum sold IN 1910 was
HISS tons icsf than sold In tgta.
hut the total value was SiTt.iat great.
Or. Nearly ab per cent ~ the domestic
ralrincd gypsum marketed In the
United States, ~ i,sGb.ga7 tons. ~
urrd for use aE wall plaster Keenes
cement plaster ~ Paris. aud other
uses, About 100000 tons ~ this
quantity represents mixed wall plaH.
ter
There were ssyonty-cight gypsum
mines including quarrics and pits. re-
ported active In the United States Ia
1914. one ~ which IN In Alaska. These
mines supplied Hixty-eight domestic
mills. ~ which HiNty-one were cnicin-
ing plants and seven produced ground
gypsum only. Four now mills were
reported In operation last year. three
Ia California and one In New York
one mill. located In Nevada. was re-
ported under construction In 1914.
About one-half 81 the active plants
which reported ON business conditions
reported business practically the same
In 1914 NJ In 1913. ana the oth-r hair
found trade poorer A few pr,drterH
considered conditions better The nV-
ernge price of crude g,pfum through
out the country decfearcd five cents
In 1914 AS compared with the price re-
ported for 1919. and the average price
~ calcined gypsum advanced thirty
four cents.