Show AMERICAN KEENE CEMENT CO times richfield utah A stecial special directors meeting of the keene cement company was held in the companas comp anys office tuesday evening and the proposition of some eastern interests to consolidate the business of the keene company with the new company with a capitalization of was didd discussed assed at length and when the matter was put to a vote it carried the name of the new concern will be the american keene cement company and it is stated by representatives of the company that their intentions are to erect immediately a new plaster mill and marble mill at sigurd and also to erect a keene cement plant at medicine lodge kansas where the company has some four hundred acres of ground the capacity of the plant at sigurd will be between three and four hundred tons per day and of the one at medicine lodge one hundred tons a day when the plants are running at full blast they will give employment to some two hundred men and will put a large sum of money in circulation work on the erection of the mills will be commenced as soon as the weather will permit and it is predicted by officers of the concern that it will be running in full blast next summer it is reported that there is already in the treasury for building purposes and that there is available for working capital after the plant is put in operation about it is understood that the new company has already contracted for the full capacity of their output to some of the largest concerns in the country and those interested in the erection of the plant predict a most successful run |