Show ONYX INDUSTRY aioo quality of the extensive sawing and works onyx industry its growth and possibilities furnish fur filah a subject which should not bi be forgotten during tile tho homo home manufactures boom por for years the existence of onyx beds in inthia this territory has been known several well authenticated discoveries having been reported but until recently it haa flue teen been considered impossible to secure the ma ina ferjan tc elal in ID itly large to supply the demands lem anuB of commerce or to warrant wan tint tho the erection of cutting and polishing works lat year a syndicate or of salt likera obtained possession of three claims near pelican point utah county about fourteen miles southwest of lehl slid and after prospecting their ground found choice chice distinct veins of oc onyx in broad slabs from ten to fourteen inches in thickness the veins being about one mile in length having macei that the quality was tunit clas cla 8 and the supply practically the huners organized for business and incorporated corp orated the salt lake cuy city onyx company ot of ut utah a h later they secured the contract to furnish the wainscoting for the first and second floors of tile the new city caty end and county building and in january began operations prat ions thereon the contract la Is not by tiny any means it small 11 one as it calls for the co verine sma of about GOOT square feet of surface the wainscoting being thirty C four inches lit in height helf fht of the amount requited required tho the company has already delivered about feet anil and tho the remainder will be furnished as last fact as aa needed the sawing and Is done by watson brothers Br othera at their extensive works on sixth west street through which a party of representative business men were yesterday chaperoned by judge 0 W howera president of tho the onyx company the onyx la in received at tho the works in larre blocks blacks or ibs and in its ita naturel natural state rough hewn and in appearance siva elves little sign of the rare beauties brought to view under the skilled manipulations of tile the polishers from one to three carloads ads of tho the TA raw w material js is received from the quarries neelly after tho the huge blocks have ben been squared up to the size desired they abc adjusted i beneath the garlia sawa of which two larko large sets bets are in constant op after being sawed into the proper thin ness t the he slabs are placed on it a rapidly i revolving horlis grinding machine 1 the bed of which la Is kept supplied mith etli lino fine sa fland a d and water next the slabs aro are eted to it a course of hand band polishing al to the tn system used on marble and afterward the tin touches ure are put oo on by a burnishing machine which leaves the 0 onyx n YX itil n surface like plate claps abo th 0 Is most interesting and those w who ho were shonn shon through the works yesterday expressed astonishment as an well as pleasure a at t the m I 1 c e of like activity shown b by Y the company which has furnished employment for from thirty to forty men tor for several months past at tile the quarries and add in the works the finial led product also came in for unstinted to its ita splendid Bilin ald quality and nd line finish hal h in color it la 12 variegated lemon and white tho the mai join being different tin on every blab and when in in the city and county building bul lillne will bo be it A source or of patriotic picc to every of micah judit blowers for the fact act chit in nil all the slabs n aba they have taken from the not noi a single crack check or flow haft lia town been discovered d and PAYS ehst at as soon sc as the gets ct a little norf room it 11 will be able to drive ill the mexican merit an companies out of the united states oven on a free trade basis lin ils RZ a ito local product Is not only it a botter better article than the imported but wiling trains to tho the vc veins ins anil and VMS ease ot of the martet market can be supplied a cheaper jatoi |