Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-03-23 | Page 31 | Modern Stone and Granite Plant is Very Busy Place

MODERN STONE AND ANDt t GRANITE PLANT IS VERY BUSY PLACE Fine Mechanical Equipment if t Aids in n Handling of Huge Huget Weights t I II I e Salt So-It Take Lake boosters fond of or call- call Jog flop ng the attention of or visitors visitor H 1 to the many iy Industrial achievements of f tho citizens of oC tho the Utah mn- mn make males special lp 1 reference to the Whyte Whyte Ashton- Ashton company's compans and stono itono plant on Sl Sixth tit th West Westland e t tand land and South Temple This company comp starting starting- In business many yearn year ago agro K II th the i Watson atson Bros stone plant and has Improved It until now nov it possesses a a. plant with the tho most mod- mod modern ern rn of equipment and one conceded lI cc od to t tobe be be- betho 0 tho the best In lit tho the entire we west t. t The company's company plant Is la u a J. J scene of ot IP activity at Rt present being Laing called on OD on to furnish the material for tor the tha o ot of Utah main now ln In course courso of or erection Jn to ad addition to torone rone tone for other buildings In this sec sec- of or tho thi country From the ne time tune that cars from th the quarries of th the state are shunted onto on- on J to the company's s side tracks th the me- me nt Is called Into play lilay IsA iA traveling traveling- crane with h a lilting lifting capacity ca- ca of or 16 iii tons picks up lip tho saw sw locks like Ino toys ton and antI gently deposits them them In any desired spot of or UN the great Ono operator tor at 1 the eon controlling trolling III of or tho the crane and another lei to nl nd- nd lust the hooks a against tha th sides aides of or the Is all the tho crew required to operate op- op irate erate this tills wonderful piece picco of or m n mira A smaller r. r crane In Jn the he north wing of or tin the sheds is I equally lh eff Affective In n handling handling- the smaller stones atones tone loathe Cufa 5 Stone Ston one Probably the most interesting pl co of if mechanism next to the Runt era cram IK the lathe latho used In the the stone soft tone de- de of oC the th plant Two ton blocks block lor or of sandstone arc are placed pla-ced In this lath lathe f nd nd h In a remarkably ahl brief space of It hmo ml A 1 finished product Is turned out Mine lathe Is operated d on the same principle MS as the machinery u used us ul 1 in jn turning tu out Glut work wood and nd the ittie product la Is aa as smooth as the b best l lot fot ot of the wood finishers finisher's art These columns columns col- col arc are designed for the university main building K Three saw 14 aw W gangs pangs are in cons constant hint operation at the the- Ashton hta corn n plant and the hardest t blocks block of or anito are Ie transposed transpOse Into smooth fund and sightly V rl A In Installed howl air nil compressor compress's plant has mu murto mado o the work of the tho hut huiC- huiC d- d f don clone department a model l 0 of Its Us kind Prominent among th the air all driven tools J h a surfacing machine machino which Il kb y one man man I Is capable of ot doing doing- the h ork 0 o of six or eight men The hard l of ot a block blok of or gran granite II I which In ethic tithe time before th the Invention of or this de would require days RJ t. t to b be smoothed by b hand Is JR speedily see ll smoothed t b y the slant giant blows s Q of this device i e f 1 I or Ten Employed T 1 Two 10 vo 0 score men wren an are employed Ll In his tho Wh v t te tt company's ns I l Implant and aided d by the modern mat ma- ma t of It the tho plant the they turn u ou u a volume or of work worIe far tal in excess of ot a n. crew v cr w of or many man J times their number with- with pout trout rout th tt aid ah of uch such up-to-rj up up to t ma- ma chinery f The Ashton Whyte h t n COM COM- finny IP Is one of ot the oldest of or the trial firms of ot the elt city having h ht en sen n in lit for tor more than 20 0 y ag It S well wen entitled to lo be ranked wl whit h the tho solid lSd business s institutions of or th the city and Is IK considered one of or the most II nio- nio a companies of or Salt alt l. ak l in l the vest crest st st. Ever E in the tor tron of or Inand In- In p and md commercial development do this hi firm has ma made an n 1 I ton which extends throughout the en- en entire en entire tire Ure ll 6 west Advertisement