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Show New Industry Proposed for Area At Site of Cement-Making Rocks A site in Red Hollow about three miles beyond be-yond Palmyra Park in Diamond Fork Canyon, could be the location of a huge cement manu- facturing plant if plans of -a Springville man, leaser of the area, materializes. This was a report made at a recent meeting of Greater Utah Valley committeemen by Orrie O. Brewerton of this city, who announced that several sev-eral companies have expressed interest and one coast company com-pany in particular, in what has been described as the "largest known deposits" of calcium oxide which is valuable in making cement at the Diamond Fork site. To make it commercially profitable, Mr. Brewerton told the GUV committeemen, would necessitate construction of a plant costing approximately $27,000,000. Such a plant would produce 600 to 700 tons of cement an hour considerably over production pro-duction of most cement mills, said Utah County Commission- er Sterling Jones. It would be a big boost to I Utah county industry and particularly par-ticularly convenient to meet cement needs of the new freeway free-way and the dams proposed to be built in Diamond Fork canyon can-yon under the Central Utah (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) i Industry Proposed for This Area (Continued from Page One) project, it has been pointed out. The plans and industries committee of GUV pledged support to encourage .interested .interest-ed industry in construction of such a plant at the GUV meeting. meet-ing. Discovered Mineral It has been quite some time since Mr. Brewerton riding in the mountains, noticed this particular rock. He had worked for the sugar factory some years before and believed it to be the same kind of material mater-ial used in processing sugar. However, after having it analyzed, ana-lyzed, he found that it was almost al-most the perfect mineral for the manufacture of cement. He began communication with possible pos-sible manufacturers, filling out papers and getting titles in order. Several companies have shown considerable interest in a proposed plant and one in particular on the west coast with branch offices in Las Vegas, is presently looking over the papers and making detailed investigation. It is the hope of Utah county coun-ty leaders that plans will materialize ma-terialize for such a plant as cement is a much needed product pro-duct in this area. A cement manufacturing plant such as has been proposed pro-posed would employ in the neighborhood of 700 men and this number would be readily available. Add this fact to that the railroad has indicated it would make service easily accessible; plus the huge quantity quan-tity of high grade cement rock available with plenty of water, good drainage and other facilities facili-ties all of which seem to add up to a perfect set-up for a new industry in this locality. |