The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1915-06-18
ARE SOON TO WORK
GYPSUM DEPOSITS
TWO HUNDRED TON MILL CD
ING IN At CLEVELAND.
Western Gypsum Company Acqnirrs
About six Hundred Acres of PrO-
ducing Ground Twenty-Five mics
south Of Cedar Mountains-PrOd-
net 20 Come Into Wellington.

Cleveland, which is over In En-
cry county and some fifteen miles
southeast OF Price, Is 10 get gyp-
sum mill. II Ia 20 have two hun
dred tons daily capacity and Il 20
be nut in BY the Western Gypsum
company OF Denver. Colo, which
has beadauarters in the First Ma
tional Bank building OF the Colo-
RADIO capital. y. y. Priest Is the
general manager of the concern and
he was % Cleveland last Sunday
evening. At that time the citizens
there. who are enthusiastic over
the proposition, met with Manager
Priest and pledged their support In
a substantial way. The mill Is now
on its way here.
General Manager Priest has been
In and out OF price and Emery
county for the past two weeks. and
Is now returning TO Denver with
control OF six hundred acres Of this
gypsum land. twenty-five miles
south OF the town OF Wellington.
The product II In blanket vein form
and will be worked by steam shovel
Afterwards Il IL to be taken TO the
mill and ground and later brought
TO the railroad. Price or yelling
ton. for shipment
The product, says General Man
agor Priest. runs 1914 per cent By
several actual tests and there are
by measurements more than ten
million tons OF the gypsum IN sight.
Whore the vein Ia exposed at It's
greatest depth thirty feet of the
product 10 In sight. The mill Is be-
Ing put IN az Cleveland because Of
the chcapness OF slack coal at the
camps OF Mohrland and Black
Hawk.
After the gypsum Is ground TO a
suitable flneness Il goes through a
certain burning process. hs chief
use at the present time Il for floor
ing. ceilings aud partitions for fire
proof buildings. although later on Il
will DO called for for other pur-
poses. The Pullman palace car peo-
pie are beginning to inquire for
gypsum for use In car construction.
Several OF tho largest hotels OF
America have recently gone 60 par
TALLY gypsum construction.
With the coming OF the mill ma
chincry about nifty mon are 10 be-
put 70 work nj the mine and tho
mill. II IL proposed To repair the
Old Denver and Rio Grando rail-
road grade from Wellington TO the
deposits aud TO lay light rail there
on for train service. This old grade
runs rlght through n portion OF the
company'B holdings The Denver
and Rio Orandc system IL co-opera-
ting with General Manager Priest
and his company TO the fullest eS-
tent.
Fast OF Cleveland about mile
and whore the railroad will run II
one IL ever built through that sec
ton OF Emery county. Priest and
associates for another concern. have
been decided n hundred and sixty
acres OF land and three hundred
shares OF water stock. Here a
townsite OF a hundred and twenty
acres Ia To be laid out aud forty
acres OF the holdings donated for a
millsite for the Western Gypsum
cmopany. The forty acres 10 a do
nation. The mill will form the neu-
cleus OF the new town.
General Manager Priest il soon
To be- back on the ground and ex-
poets 60 have matters going In good
shape by the middle OF the sum
mer. Several Iowa and Colorado
people are Interested with him.