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Show brick mmwm IHTERESTEO IB UTAH Tennessee Company Investigating Investigat-ing Resources With View to Establishing Plant. The Morris Sherman .Manufacturing .Manufac-turing company, of dhattauoo-ga, dhattauoo-ga, Tcnn.. has written to the manufacturers' association of Utah regarding the location of a sand lime brick plant in Salt Lake. Referring to this report seen in trade papers, the Chattanooga company wrote saying that if such was tho case, it would be glad to receive particulars regarding tho project proj-ect and to inquiro if a part of the capital cap-ital could be raised in Salt Lake. The company stands ready to mnko up a good part of the investment. 7n reply, IX V. Collctt, secretary of tho Manufacturers association, sent the following letter Saturday: "Salt Lako is the center of a terri-tor-- 500 miles in each direction that is increasing in population perhaps faster than any other portion of tho United States. In jobbing and manufacturing lines it has no competitor from Denver on the east to California on tho west. And on the north and south, practically none at all from Canada to the Colorado Colo-rado river, which shuts off Arizona and Now Mexico. "As stated, this section of tho country coun-try is filling up rapidly. Utah is rich in agricultural resources; is prolific in tho production of wool, and is the possessor pos-sessor of natural advantages greater than any other state in tho union. The precious metals arc hero in abundance and there are deposits sufficient to last tho whole world a thousand years of the following: Iron, coal, lime rock, salt, sulphur, asphaltum, Gilsonite, elaterite, tabby itc (containing ST1. per cent mineral min-eral rubber), graphite, silica, silicato, silicon, marblo, granite, sandstone. 0113'x, nitic gypsum and others too numerous to mention. Portland cement, the equal of any produced in tho world, is made hero and the product of the Utah gypsum gyp-sum field has no superior anywhere. "Coming to tho question of sand limo brick, it is a question much talked of. but not much hns been done as yet. F have beforo mo samples of Gro cl'av and silicon sands pronounced by exports to be of the very highest order. The sands are of fourteen colors, shades and tints and contain sufficient lime for its cohesion. co-hesion. Brick made from tho substance will stand tho tost of being thrown into cold water at a heat of 2-100 degrees. I know of ono .tract of laud; in fact, the one from which these samples come, of 1500 acres, only a few miles from the heart of this city and tho railroad runs lengthwise through the tract. "Tho land is for salo us the owners have no cnnit.ii to promote tho manufacturing industry. Tt would mean millions in a few years for any one who would take up the "proposition. "prop-osition. You may ask. 'Why does not local capital get busy in tho "premises V Tho answer, is that there are thousand and one opportunities in nearly as many different directions. Onlya'fow can be considorod and theso orilj' superficially. Would liko to hear from you further on this question." |