Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-06-28
FRIDAY, JUNE %, 1918.
ABOUT THAT CEMENT HIGHWAY
WYE find the following query in last weeks is
w sue of the Washington County News:


There was considerable talk while ago about
cement making plant to be put in at Cedar City,
which was to be of sufficient size to furnish cement
for road making purposes well as for cement
walks, cement buildings, etc. 1t is understood
that the material for making cement is available
in unlimited quantity Cedar City and that the
quality is of the very best
1t was stated some time ago that there would
be no trouble in financing such undertaking,
because it badly needed and would be very
profitable. Every thing then seemed to point to
an early activity towards financing and maturing
the proposition
Why has it been dropped Have the people
who initiated the proposition been quietly in
formed that the state does not favor fine road
through the state from Logan on the north to
St. George in the south? Or have they been BAN
boozed by visions and talk of railroads that may
come?
Whatever the cause hope the matter will
not die Every day brings home to us with in
creasing force the absolute necessity of better
roads for this section of fair state if the
ty is to make the development that it should. Lack
of good roads is retarding both growth and de
velopment.
We want one good road clean through the
state from north to south and it should be a ce-
ment road,
First want that cement plant at Cedar City
What about it?
First we will try to answer the inquiry of Oul
brother publisher on the south There was some
considerable agitation here several months age
for cement plant in the Cedar Canyon where
there is an unlimited supply of lime shale. gypsum
and other ingredients which enter into the produc
ton of Portland cement to have a sufficient ca
pacity to supply the needs of the surrounding ter
ritory, and cut off the long freight haul and al
least part of the resulting price of the product
Samples were taken from the natural products il
our canyon and sent to experts in the north fol
analysis, but for some reason no returns were re
ceived of the test, or analysis. Some persons in
terested in the cement industry have stated posi-
lively that it is impracticable to operate cement
plant of less than 500 barrels per day output a
profit. That there are number of cement plants
in various parts of the west which are lying idle
not being operated for lack of sufficient marke
for the product all of which may or may not have
foundation in fact but the most of which ha.
gone in one ear and out the other" to use an ole
and familiar saying, so far as The Record is con
cerned.
But the delay is chiefly due, we are convinced
to lack OF any person sufficiently interested il
it personally to give time and energy to pushing it
Recently, however, some encouraging fact:
have come to light, which seem to Justify the eX
pectation that a cement plant will be established
here within short time. The most important OF
these is that w. j. Dooley of Salt Lake City, whC
has extensive property interests in this county
and who is of himself financial pillar of no NEAR
consequence and has strong connections, has beer
moving quietly in this matter for some time pas
and may have an important announcement t.
make in this connection at any time. With j. II
Arthur Of this place, he has purchased hber,.
tract Of land from the state, containing the min
erals needed in the manufacture of cement he ha
located plant of about the proper capacity in the
state, which was displaced with larger one Will,
still comparatively new, and on his return to Sal
Lake City couple of weeks ago took extensive
samples of the deposits to be analysed.
Mr. Dooley is fully convinced that cement
plant of say 300 barrels daily capacity car