Show A GREAT ENT RPRl E Plans of the Utah Portland Ceo Ce-o ment Company ITS PRODUCT IS TESTED I The Utah Article Superior to Anything Imported Inoxliaus t his Quantities of Haw Blaterla Found In Parleys Canyon Contracts Let Yesterday for the Joint Build iujr Clearings Mininc Notes A long series of tests and experiments have finally demonstrated that Portland cement equal in quality to the very best imported article and at a price at least as I low can be manufactured right here in Salt Lake and from home materials More than that it will be manufactured here for the plans of Messrs Moorman I La Due and Cairns has passed the experimental experi-mental stage and they are now ready for business These gentlemen have had many years experience in the manufacture cements and after going over the field and investigating gating the materials to be found here they concluded that the proposition was a good one and bought out the Western Cement company They spent i30000 in enlarging and improving the plant and are now prepared to turn out 100 barrels a day THE RAW MATERIALS are found in Parleys canyon ten miles I from the works in this city and within r twenty feet from the Utah Central rail way track Recently a hundred tests on this home cement and the various imported varous ported cements of the highest grade were mcde and the result showed a higher average of strength for the home article than was found in any of the others i The company has completed all arrangements arrange-ments to get its PRODUCT ON THE MARKET inside of sixty days running at the full capacity of sixty barrels By next spring the new plant will be completed at a cost of 125COO and this will increase the capacity to 300 barrels a day The company com-pany expects to supply the market withal with-al the cement used hero basing their claim for patronage on the superiority of their product over anything imported which can be supplied at as least at low a price The promoters are spending a large amount of capital here in a home enterprise which will give employment to many men THEY ASK FOR NO BONUS or aid except patronage which the merit of their product may entitle them I to and they certainly deserve support Such enterprises are the back bone of a community I and Salt Lake has too few of them Mr La Duo was in company with Pres ident Hubbard ol the chamber of commerce com-merce when seen by a HERALD man yesterday yes-terday and he spoke enthusiastically of the outlook for his company I have handled cement for a long time J he said I but the material we have here is the finest I have ever seen From it can be made cement that is equal to the highest grades of German cement a the tests that have been made show There is enough material in Parleys canyon to manufacture cement for a thousand years Few persons realize the IMMENSE SUMS OF MONEY that are being expended in Salt Lake each year for imported cement The street and sidewalk paving sewers and other public works take great quantities of i and if the money that is now sent away can be spent at home and utilized in giving our workmen work-men employment it will be an immense gain for the city |