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Show Gypsum Industry in Utah An industry that; was started about eighteen years ago in Juab county has grown to such proportions that tho local market no longer consumes tho entire . output of the state. This industry consists in tho converting of tho im-menso im-menso deposits of gypsum into a mar-kotablo mar-kotablo product, and that the market has been extended away beyond the original conceptions of tho promoters of at least ono company in this profitable profit-able field, has been proven by tho Utah Consolidated Plaster company, which owns a half-dozen beds of puro gypsum in tho mountains bnck of Lovan in Juab county, nnd a short distance from tho Juab' station on tho line of tho Salt Lako Boule. These bods are from 400 to S00 feet wide, and are 1000 feet high, each one of them. Their basic thickness is over a mile, so that in theso quarries alone a supply of tho nativo gypsum sufficient for thousands of years is available. The main quarry is equipped with a modern mill that has" a capacity of 400 tons of crude g3'psum per day. At present it turns our and markets 100 tons per daj and will increase its output in tho near fu- ture. The market for this product is in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon and Montana. It is used for hard wall plaster in construction, fibred fi-bred piaster, finishing jdaster, moulding mould-ing plaster, dental plaster, plaster of Paris, and as a fertilized. The broken- down gypsum is shot down the mountainside by aorial trams to tho mill, which is automatic in its action, and tho finished product is hauled to the railroad at Juab with a huge traction engine with two trac-tiou trac-tiou wagons, each with a capacity of twenty-five tons, and making two round trips a day. Another company in the samo business busi-ness is the Nophi Plaster and Manufacturing Manufac-turing company, which has beds of nust aii pure gypsum at Nophi, but not so great in extent. Its mill is not modem, mod-em, but it turns out a first class product pro-duct and plays to a good market locally. Thoro aro numerous other places in tho stato where the gypsum deposit is found, notably in tho mountains on tho cast and west sides of Millard county, in places in Piute and Garfield counties, coun-ties, and down south in Washington county-, but no effort has been mado to commercialize tho article with tho exception of the two companies mentioned. |