Show ANOTHER COMPANY BEGINS operations IN NORTHWEST spokane wash avash feb 23 development of the use of ma for home building and house flooring purposes is being pushed in the state of washington AV ashington by a recently organized firm the hawkeye Haw leye feldstone Felt stone company which is operating a large plant at mead washington the new firm is incorporated with a subscribed capital of and had recently purchased the factory of the western materials company in which has been installed modern manufacturing I 1 machinery the new plant will produce fifty tons of product during every eight hour shift this product is known as the hawkeye feldstone felt stone the officers of the company are AV G Ra ramage inage president leroy gillogly vice president and wallace J mahon secretary treasurer and general manager feldstone Felt stone is not touched by hands in the course of manufacture all operations in the factory being automatically carried out by I 1 machinery the plant includes stora storage b e facilities for fifty carloads of the product and a complete laboratory which has been installed for testing nry purposes the source of the hawkeye Haw keyel feldstone felt stone is is said to be the third largest body of ore in the world located in this state near the canadian border instead of mining 9 I 1 it t is removed by simple quarrying thus reducing the cost after being quarried the rock is crushed and as the process of burning is called this reduces it to a pure powder free from foreign matter A second crushing and grinding is given the ore when it reaches the hawkeye plant at mead from the grinder which pulverizes it to the fineness of flour it is is elevated to a bin and fed into a mixer which fuses it with other materials necessary to make hawkeye feldstone felt stone the finished article comes sacked ready to mix with chloride water to the consistency of cement As flooring feldstone felt stone is said to be as resilient as linoleum is long wearing and water proof several colors are obtainable As plaster or stucco feldstone felt stone is claimed to be crack proof cool in summer and warm in winter |