| Show REALTY AND STOCKS Elias Morris Mosaic Marble i I Factory I NEW BLOCKS FOR E8r TEMPLE A New Use for the Exchange Building Real Estate Sales of YesterdayThe Stock Exchange I is too common to contemn homo industries indus-tries und touQ off in a hurrah after any ando and-o proposition that comes from abroad There have been anywhere from one to five Hundred schemes published in the newspapers news-papers of persons who were going to start manufactories in Salt Lake Secretary Gillcapic of the chamber of commerce and Secretary Montgomery receive mails that I are burdened down with propositions from men who ole yearning to come west to I manufacture for an agreeable bonus Up to date nothing has come of these I has already been suggested in these columns and ir is repeated here that if the same ffort was directed at encouraging homo janufacturies and ogahiziutf stoclc coin auies at home tel times as much good ould be accomplished Believing that home industries should re eive more attention than has been accorded hem n HERALD reporter visited the Mosaic stone works of Elms Morris on NOrth Temple street The veteran veeran champion of home manufactories was up to his eyes in work and tie sturdy tempestuous nature seemed to drivculi obstacles out of the way Mr Moms pointed 8ut a beautiful mantel man-tel all turned out of his factory except the beveled glass mirror and he seemel t think that it would be only n question of line beloro that also would D made in Utah The mantel l was quite ornamental having handsome designs worked out in aid onyx Tennessee marble and Italian ren The class of work turned out by this uctory is equal to the best shipped t the city and the Hotel Tempcton will be fur nishtd with titty mantels made in Salt Lake tCt argeli of Utah raw material HOW MANTELS ARE MADE Back of his flour mill Mr Morris has erected n large Irauiahcd and in this the work is carried on One end ot the room Is tilled with barrels of cement and broken chips of marblo the refuse ol marble factories fac-tories These waste pieces of marble are put through a stone crusher alter which the pieces are assorted to make cither coarse or line work The crushed marblu is mixed with the best German cement half and half in a mortar and placed into the moulds of whatever pattern is desired I takes some ten days to set the cement being kept moist To give the stone the Mosaic appearance small bits of broken white or red marble onyx or any other color had been mixed in the mortar about the edges of the slab or block The slab is then taken to the rubbing rub-bing table where a large circular plate of iron ten feet hi diameter is revolved by macninery to bring it down to a smooth surface This scouring down takes several hours The slab is then treated to a coat of cement which is thoroughly rubbed into in-to fill up any blemish or pinhole in the moulding The slab must again take a1 rest lor live days to allow the cement to settle when thb stone is ready for polishing which js done by a revolving plate with an iuth of felt on its surface surace I scouring it with u ids and blue grit I it1 is desired to makpa black border about the slab the edcjss are made of black marbled an marble-d black cement Fancy borders can be mude of any cOmbination of colors and there are some Very handsome designs that look nearly as warm and snug as if they were tapestry instead of dull cold marble Mr Morris claims that by the Mosaic process he makes tin article that is stronger than quarry marBle will staud lire without cracking and that yill not lose its color nor stain The tiles for mosaic floors which is an important i braiicli of the bruc industry are made under powerful pressure The walkabout walk-about the Ztons savings bank building is a sample of tho paving which Mr Morris puts down by this process The hexagon ties are maue in the factory while the rest of the work IB d6ne6n the ground Nearly every kind of buijding and ornamental stone Work can bq made in ihs way and mosaic marble of this kind is f1s lnd is growing in L favor for gnivo stones and monuments Much of the marble comes from Utah the black from the Pasco quarry near the I warm springs the white rom Nephi thor tho-r d from American Fork and tho finest onyx in the worldalmost transparent transpar-ent from Deserct Mr Morris controls the right of making Mosaic marble in this territory |
