The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-10-15
EXPAND Cement PLANT
CARNEY COMPANY WILL EN-
"a LARGE WORKS
Labor Saving Machines Have
Been Installed; Product In
Great Demand

Carney Cement Company will
build large plant on the site of its
property north of the city. The
plans are now being prepared by
Richard X. Meade Of Baltimore, a
cement plant engineer OF interna-
tional reputation. Work on the new
plant will commence as soon as the
plans and specification are complet-
ed. which will be about the first
OF the year.
The new plant will have a capa-
city Of three thousand barrels day
and will be built of stone, steel.
brick and concrete, and will be alb
solutely Are proof. 1t will com
and eighteen feet in diameter; a
large mill building. which will house
orushers and grinding machinery,
capable Of producing 800 barrels CO.
ment per hour; storage bins with a
capacity of 10000 barrels Of cement;
modern machine shop, blacksmith
shop, garage, sack warehouse and
chemists building. Concrete coal
hoppers will be built with a capacity
of seven hundred tons of coal;
seventy Ave tons Of coal day will
be required at the new plant, and
the coal will be dumped from the
the coal shutes, from where 1t is
conveyed by belt to the kilns. End
less belts will convey the burned
rock from the kilns to the crusners
and mills, as well as the bags Of ce-
ment from the. automatic packing
and weighing machines to the cars
for shipment. The plant is planned
to reduce labor handling to the
minimum, and to effect every pos
sible saving IN the cost Of manu-
facture.
Building On Present Plan.
is being Increased to g Zoo barrels s
per day by the erection of new
kilns, and installation on additional
crushing and grinding machinery.
The two plants will have a com
btned out put Of 5,700 barrels or
"a. 800 bags Of cement daily, there
ment.
There are now ITO men on the
eompany's pay roll. This force viii
be increased to $50 men when both
plants are in operation.
inexhaustible supply OF raw niAter-.
ial. The deposit contains both the.
cement stone and the lime stone that
OF Carney's Cement, which IL used
are required for the manufacture
exclusively for brick and tile NOR
tar. The cement rock hes at the
bolom OF the quarry. At Is this In
gredient that gives to the cement its
great strength and durability. With
the cement rock L. MIXED proper
proportions Of stone containing a
higher percentage OF lime, which
gives the finished cement it's plas-
bination OF the cement hedges and the
same quarry, Is what determined
the sits for the new plant. after the
company has made exhaustive tests
on stone az various locations during
the past two years. Every test both
technical and practical has proved
this cement unsurpassed for brick
and tile mortar. Thousands of bar
rels OF 1t have already been used ON
buildings in various parts of the
country with the most excellent re-
suits
Lower Price Of Material
The quarry can be operated with
the greatest economy. as there is
practically no waste to the deposit.
The slight amount Of stripping or tor,
rock is readily disposed Of to the
railroad companies for rip rap.
The lower cost of obtaining the
raw material from this ideal quarry
condition; the modern labor saving
equipment OF the new plant, and
the big tonnage output OF two
mills, will 30 materially reduce the
manufacturing and overhead costs,
as to permit to lowr points from
Cornav,s Cor,o,. l.,
The Carney's Cement Sales Com
pany. District sales office are
maintained at Cleveland. Chicago,
Detroit. st. Louis, Omaha and
Minneapolis. Plans are being made
for additional offices In the Eastern
and southern states. Each sales
office is in charge of a district man
ager, with travelling statesmen con-
stantly developing and soliciting
business for Carney's Cement.
Machines Save Labor
Many modern labor saving mach
ines have been installed in Carney's
cement plant in West Mankato
which has minimized the hard labor
OF few years ago. Take for in
stance in the packing of cement In
sacks, formerly the bags were filled
with the ordinary shovel, and then
the sacks had to be tied by hand.
set to one side and then trucked to
the cars sometimes the length of
the packing house. A visit to the
plant yesterday disclosed the fact
that instead Of the old method,
sacks are now automatically filed
and sealed by machinery at the rate
OF six hundred bags an hour day
and night. Instead of trucking the
bags to the cars the filled ones are
automatically tripped of the filling
machine as soon as the weight
reaches sixty pounds and the con.
veying belt carries the bags to the
cars where they are piled in tiers.
In q word this machine automati-
cally fills and weighs . the sack at
the same time sealing 1T ready for
shipment.
Strength Of Product q
AS an instance of what Carney's
cement will do under adverse cir.
cumstances, H. e. Carney showed
the Free Press-representative some
brick which had been laid in Car
ney's cement when it was from ten
to twenty below zero. With the
aid of hammer Mr. Carney pound
ed some OF these brick laid in a
single layer loose. So strong were
tbs brick cemented together that
the brick gave away IN the middle
while the cement which had become