Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-01 | Page 28 | Booming Business in Bronze Statues

Booming coming Business in Bronze Statues S a result of the war the making of largo AS A bronze statues to to be erected as memorials in the cities and towns of the many combatant combatant com corn nations promises to be a booming business for a while at nt least The st statues tues are ure by no means so 50 easy to make as most people imagine I First of all a plaster model has to be bc made of or orthe the actual statue and this model is completely covered with small blocks of a n special kind of sand Salm sometimes as many as 2000 pieces being required This special sand is put on in a wet stale state and aft after r the blocks are arc dr dry they are arc taken off ofT one oneat oneat at lit a time and carefully put together in the form of a mould The latter is then filled with clay dar so that a ai at i V v f. f iy t l t o ot c. t 1 J I. I r. r A tL I 00 i facsimile is obtained of th the plaster model This clay model model or or core as it is ig then called-then called then h has hai l a quarter of oC an inch taken off its entire surface which is needless to say a very difficult and trick tricky job The clay core corre is then put into the mould of sand blocks and kept in a n central position b by means of iron rods there is left a n quarter of an In inch space between the thc core COle and the mould molten bronze is then poured in from the top until it completely fills the space between the core coro and the mould After it has cooled the latter is again removed removed re rc moved the clay interior taken out an and the statue except for a little polishing is r ready 1 y to be bc put put into position a o i i f A Jf i.- i. i. i