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Show accustomed to so much foreign matter in their time. The parties who have taken hold of this enterprise propose soon to establish a large depot in Salt Lake and in doing so they will spend considerable money. A New Industry. Dr. John R. Williams, who returned from Denver a day or two ago, brings information of a new industry that is soon to be established in Salt Lake. "Among the mineral deposits which have beeu discovered and utilized during dur-ing the brief period of Colorado's his-tor3-,"said the doctor, "a leading position posi-tion is taken by the product of an immense im-mense deposit of lime rock at Wolls-vllle. Wolls-vllle. six miles east at Salida, which tho best judges say has not its equal on the American conlinet. This limcstono deposit de-posit is high up in the mountain region purer and clearer and whiter than deposits de-posits laid down a mile lower in Missouri or elsewhere, the pure deposit of this region being clogged clog-ged and corrupted down below with sand aud other sediment which deteriorates the quality of the article emerging from tho kilus in the lower altitude. This wonderful deposit, just below Salida, in the Arkansas Valley, rises to a height of from 6,1 to 170 feet, is about 800 feet long and 400 feet in breadth, and would supply the entire Uuited States with lime for a thousand years and then not bo exhausted. Realizing the importance of such a deposit de-posit as this, many efforts have been mado to discover similar deposits elsewhere else-where in the mountain region, parties of prospectors goiug out with as much enthusiasm as though on the lead of gold or silver, but solar without success or even the promise of any. . The R. W.. English lumber company, wlio.se general oilico is in Denver, have taken hold of this quarry 'with the intention in-tention of making its development one of the crowning industries of the w est. They have several kilns in operation on the ground, from which their present ! capacity is about 1500 bushels a day. All bricklayers and plasterers plas-terers are enthusiastic over the clearness of this lime, aud the cool wav in which it works up. Those who have examined exam-ined the raw rock picked up on the I surface are astonished at its clearness and purity, tho elements in surface iu-dicaliot'.s iu-dicaliot'.s causing the raw rock to crumble crum-ble a fact unknown in anv other limestone lime-stone in the world. The stone is also said almost invariably to show on analysis SKI per cent of solid lime, which will be a revelation to those w ho have become 7 |