Show I BRICK PROJECT WIDE IN SCOPE Great Variety of Products to Be Manufactured in Salt Lake City A project called the Western estern Clay Products company has hs been launched to manufacture everything that can cart be made of clays commanding a market This plant when complete will employ as many as 25 men J A of ur this city has spent about six years experimenting with the different SlaYs plays of the state along with the climate water Tater and coal condition During this time clay experts have been employed and one of the most able clay experts in the country spent fifteen months In Utah rendering great assistance Certain capitalists of ot the city put the proposition up to Mr to demon demonstrate demonstrate demonstrate strate certain things that he claimed could be done with Utah clays and to spare no expense The hills near Salt Lake have been gone over oer many times by old clay prospectors of the east and it has been demonstrated that the most valuable clays clas lay close to this city mak making makIng ing it necessary to build the plant here hera The fire brick will be second to none in America they will meet any condition from the boiler fire firo box to the smelters and coke ovens This Is the first time timea a company has been able to make this assertion During the years ears of or expert experimenting experimenting the present fire brick yards smelters and coke companies have render rendered ed valuable assistance In determining the value of their tests H G a Williams of or orthe the Utah Fuel company being desirous of seeing a home industry that could fur furnish furnish furnish nish brick for coke ovens has aided the cause greatly by giving the tests his personal attention and making valuable suggestions from time to time Mr Wil Williams Vil liams Hams finally declared the problem had been solved and that last samples of th the new concern were superior In every re respect respect respect to the foreign bricks The coke cok ovens require a higher grade brick than any other fire brick consumer The sewer pipe department will wilt be the most modern and up to date plant In the country and the ware will be second to none having havinga a very fine tine vitrified highly glazed body The market for tor this product is large and this city cU is an Ideal center from which to reach the Idaho Nevada Colorado and surrounding states This department will also make vitrified paving brick which is known to be a superior paving ma material material This company C also has a very fine decomposed porphyry white as chalk from which porcelain wares can be made In Including including Including electric insulators of all descriptions descriptions descriptions This body bod of material is so large and near the new plant to be erected that it can and will be used In making fancy facing bricks for buildings Fire bricks are used extensively In the east for fae fac facing Ing and the demand will grow irow here as soon as a yard ard is able to produce the col colors colors colors ors required All kinds of building materials will be he manufactured and Utah U h builders will see set seethe seethe the theda day when they can erect an entire house without using a piece e of lumber and very reasonable For Instance the company com pan possesses a formula that will wilt make building lumber absolutely fireproof that can be sawed bored and nailed It will not nol warp absorb moisture and amI it is very light in weight eight It is as easily treated as wood and will not be b high in cost The material to make this from exists In abundance in Utah and the only other place the same article Is being made now Is In Germany One feature that gives the project as assurance assurance assurance of success Is that some of or the tIme best known clay cia men in the state are In Interested Interested interested men that have made mad fortunes out of ot the clay cia business s such as John JohnP P Cahoon of Murray and George Curley Curl y of Salt Lake The Clay Products company has purchased the Ashton Fire Brick Tile clays lands lan ls machinery etc situated at Eighth South and Third West Vest for lor the sum of or This plant will be operated until enough brick has been made for the new plant It will be necessary to build several new kilns kilna to handle the situation This company was launched during the present money stringency stringency gency genc without the slightest trouble and with Utah capital |