The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-02-12
OROF|NO LIME KILN
TO HAVE NEW PLANT
CLAIM THAT 100000 PLANT TO
BE INSTALLED AT OROFINO
is MADE

| OROFINO, Idaho-After lying idle
for some years the once well known
and excellent lime deposit at this
! place is being opened up and work
| has actually started on the new plant.
Practically all the funds have been
subscribed, the financial end assured,
and crew of men has been put to
work, and the machinery ordered.
The plans call for 100000 plant.
This will not be the largest plant in
the United States, but the Orofino
plant will be second to none in equip
ment, for the machinery to be INSTALL
ed is the last word in lime manufac-
ture. There will be rotary kiln of
the latest design, with a daily capa-
city of 125 tons. This kiln will be
180 feet long with oil burners, fed
under pressure, all controlled by
thermostat, giving positive and uni
form temperature that insures an
even and always uniform product.
With this arrangement it will be pos
ssible to calcine all the lime perfectly,
and thus turn out a grade of lime
that is always up to the highest
standard of perfection. Users of the
Orofino lime product we'll know that
every sack will be exactly right.
In the lime business there is what is
called ''hydrated" lime That is, lime
Stacked in the manufacture, so that
it may be kept without danger of
Stacking, which ruins it, or Stacking
and starting fire, and many other
things that make it useless, or In
jure it. Thus, by hydrating the lime
at the factory it may be kept in
storage indefinitely in perfect condi-
tion. The market for this lime is
big, and long after the old plant
closed down, orders for hydrated
lime kept coming in.
The Orofina plant is to be amply
prepared to supply this grade, and
tests show that the local deposit
makes one of the highest grades,
when hydrated, in the world The
plant now under construction will
have daily capacity of 100 tons of
the hydrated grade.
There will be Kritzer type hyd-
rater and Raymond Bros. Impact
pulverizer. At the mine, 75O feet
up the hill back of the kiln big
steam shovel will dig into the side
of the mountain and supply the raw
material, which will be carried down
to the mill below by a gravity tram.
This tram will pass over the street
on a concrete viaduct, doing away
with any danger to the public
Another feature of the new equip
ment will be complete mill or plant
for the manufacture of lime fertiliz-
er, product that has come to be
recognized in the agricultural world
as of the greatest value in crop pro-
duction. Both the University of Ida
no and the Pullman college have test
ed the Orofino product and are Civ
ing the new company every possible
encouragement. in this department.
Commercial lime fertilizer will be
one of the big features of the new
plant. Lime fertilizer, it might be
interesting to know, is simply ground
lime rock, which is now known to be
an essential plant food, and absolu-
tely necessary for the now rapidly
dwindling Palouse, Camas Prairie and
Nez Perce prairie soils.
In order to interest capital the
promoter, Mr.. Ben L. Schultz of
Lewiston, Idaho, has had to "show
them" He has had the Orofino de-
posit examined by some of the best
geologists in the world; has had a
of the most competent lime
experts in the United States on the
ground, and had high class engineers
survey the mountain and estimate