The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-26
|[cEMENT PLANT
MI Be ENLARGED.
Apacity To Be Increased
From $500 TO $500
Barrels q Day.
INDUSTRY IN INFANCY
Concrete Products Become
More Important in All
Activities. .

h MN. Skiu., Scpt. <L,-N special -
Aaaouncemen, has Just been made tha,
X ~ Oklahoma Portland Cement mill, Of
IN place are 10 be increased. making
4 ~ production 4.S00 barrels OF cement
Z dAy instead Of $500 as At present
Jhis addition will be made as soon as
~ material can be bought Just at
psesent the market for steel Is so con
eested that buying is almost an i'm
possible task, the operators say, The
market il being kept up with, however,
and the new machinery will probably be
q the ground before 4 great while.
The addition will consist OF two large
Nlns 20 feet long. One will be used
TT raw grinding and the other for
laRished grinding. At presen, there are
fouf kilns ia feet long
Built In 1907.
The Oklahoma Portland Cement plant
was built In 1907 and the wheels began
70 turn about the time Oklahoma be-
came q state. Since that time Il has
been successful though at first the mat
ter Of payinR dividends was a PROPOSE
tion. The COMPANY was organized by
A. /, Beck OF Indianapolis Ind, and
j. N. Wintersmith OF Louisville, Ky
These men, with their associates op-
esated the plant until the latter part of
1916. when they sold il to the Cement
Securities company of Denver,, one Of
the largest cement manufacturing com
penies in America. Mr. Beck soon ter
minated his connection with the com
pony. and the management was given
0esr entirely to Mr.. Winteysttlth. Mr.
Wintersmith Is still general manager Of
TIE plant here and Is carrying out the
i6eas that built the business.
A year ago this company began the
eewstruction of huge crushing plant
~ the rock Quarries at Lawrence, seven
miles south OF Ada. This crushing
PINT 10 now complete and running. II
4 the largest rock crusher west al the
lssissippi, having daily capacity OF
AN yards. or seventy-five car loads Of
efuohed rock. Rocks as large as five
5oru1se feet and seven feet long can be
Qe9Ad between the big Jaws OF Ms
esvsher with seemingly little effort
II ny-whesl Of the engine weighs
uAlsty tons, and when this once gets
ehrted rocks have little effect upon its
ssf Machines Do the Work.
h Tbs efusher has need for only few
b Ia machinery doing most Of the work
A - Gnsstoae that 10 used is found neal
u snrface Of the ground, in fact GOV.
- scores Of acres. Steam drills sink
~ N the solid rock. Dynamite
oWs them apart Steam shoveIs pick
~ the hills OF rocks, and trains con
~ them up an elevated railroad track
~ drop them into the mouth OF the
sefssher. The rock 10 crushed, conveyed
power operated eonveyes to still
onsther crusher. After the rock Is
Qushed here, Il 10 conveyed into the
llpease house. Cars are placed under
1 ~ storage house and the crushed rock
Deufs into them. II takes only a dozen
0m to run this plant which handles
soosenty-five carloads Of rock a day
The crushed rock is used for two
Afppses cement and for ballasiing
9Ne stone for the cement is shipped 10
W. plant here in Ada and ground INTO
tvwder The other has been contracted
~ BY the Frisco railway and will be
: pDed In ballasting the roadbed from Sa-
~ to the Red river.
The officials Of the cement compan,
11ks great pains to provide for tn,
\ nmfort Of the employees. A larg,
ilding is now under construction
3Aich will be used exclusively by IN,
yUsimen. II will be equipped viii
hvatories, shower baths, lockers anc
eoMfortable rest rooms. There he's nev
~ Been any trouble OF any nature be
tween the officials and the workn,en.
, Industry In Its Infancy. g.
I. The cement industry in Oklahoma il
6erely in its infancy, as we'll As in mos
. parts Of the south. The plant here ha
been compelled TO work 10 a great ex
tQt to create its market as well as sup
Ply 4. The consumption Of cement !,
Okiahoma is only about IS cents wor,l