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Show cntember 15, 1960 ; . THE SPRINGVILLE (UTAH) HERALD Page Five n wm rm mm " " faires risrged at limh toll mumi plant Major industry begins operation of new cement storage and loading equipment Ideal Cement Company Fri-day began operation of its new $2 million cement storage and bulk loading facilities at the firm's Devil's Slide plant, 55 miles east of Salt Lake iCty. To view the opening opera-tion, several industrial leaders of the state were invited to inspect the plant and were ta-ken on a personally guided tour of the new installations. In the group which included a number from Salt Lake City, was Harrison Conover, Spring-vill- e, publisher of the Spring-vill- e Herald, the Mt. Pleasant Pyramid of Mt. Pleasant, Utah and the Eureka Reporter of Eureka. ' Operations began with the loading of 135 barrels of ce-ment into a bulk cement truck destined for the Flaming Gorge Dam site. Ideal will ship more than 600,000 barrels of cement at the rate of 200,000 barrels a year to help build Flaming Gorge Dam, which will provide water, power and recreation facilities to eastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming. Ideal's new storage facilities consist of nine concrete silos, 36 ft. in diameter and 140 ft. high, plus four interstice bins, with a total capacity of 202,000 barrels of cement. A barrel of cement is 376 lbs. or four 94-l- b. sacks of cement. ..... .. (; wmSfNJWWSSWi T' "! ""'''''WIWWW"' - ( G v vn -- s - f 1 Manager of Ideal Cement Company's plant at Devil's Slide, is Charles S. Burriss, who started with Ideal July 1, 1950, as a Con-struction Engineer at the' firm's plant at Trident, Montana, and through his years with Ideal has gathered a broad range of experience in a succession of jobs. He is a graduate of Colorado School of Mines. Robert E. Ayers, manager of Ideal Cement Company's sales activities, has been with Ideal for ten years, starting in October, 1950 as a Junior Salesman at Denver, Colo-rado. He has been promoted successively to a Salesman in 1953 and Assistant Sales Manager of Ideal's Colorado Division in 1957 and Was made Sales Manager, Utah Division October 1, 1959. This new storage capacity, added to the existing facilities, provides an overall storage ca-pacity of 460,000 barrels of cement nearly one-four- th of the plant's annual productive capacity. The large storage capacity provides steadier employment during the winter months when construction activity is low, and insures the availability of ample cement during the sum-mer months when construction activity is at its peak. The new bulk loading fa-cilities are the fastest avail-able. An average truck is loaded in approximately eight minutes. Bulk rail cars with a capacity of 400 barrels are loaded in 20 minutes: Three giant combination truck and railroad track scales are re-ported to be the largest lever scales ever made. Each is 10 ft. wide and 170 ft. long. One scale for each row of three silos permits simultaneous bulk loading of three rail cars or trucks. - Dust collection systems are provided throughout the new facilities assuring a dust-fre- e operation. Ideal's president, Cris Dob-bins, said the new storage loading facilities and the ex-penditures necessary for their construction represents a reaf-firmation of Ideal's faith in the soundness of Utah's basic economy and the great future ' of the Intermountain West. In addition to the Flaming Gorge Dam, Ideal cement is being used in the construction of an plant at Ttlantic City, Wyo. This plant will provide raw materials for the Columbia-Genev- a Steel plant at Geneva. Other projects using Ideal cement include plants and fa-cilities for construction of the Minute-Ma- n Missile, the fed-eral interstate highway pro-gram in Utah, and the admin-istrative building and runways at Salt Lake City municipal airport. Ideal cement has been used throughout the state in the construction of homes, churches, hospitals, office build-ings and bridge structures. From the Gulf coast to Pa-cific Northwest, Ideal operates 17 plants in 14 states. y - n-:- - ' . -- '. . . ; Mr,w . . ,.-- '1 j k . , i , A, .... I v- - ' ' f . . ' " . 1 C ' " V .. I I '. ' " , '1 v.: . . : iHv. i : --4 Overall view of the Ideal Cement Company plant, one of the major industries in Utah shows new storage-loadin- g facilities at left and the existing storage far right. The plant is located at Devil's Slide in Echo Canyon northeast of Morgan and has a capacity of 1,850,000 barrels of ce-ment annually. Much progress seen in history of Ideal Cement in this state Construction of the original Devil's Slide cement plant was begun in 1904 by the Union Portland Cement Comp-any which was owned by citi- - zens of Utah, with a few ex-ceptions. The Devil's Slide plant has been a part of Ideal Cement Company through pre-decessor companies since 1908. The area where the plant is located was meadow land known as the Beesley Farm. Lost Creek flowed through the center and had to be diverted to the east side of the valley and the land drained. Foundation for the original plant was made of sandstone from a quarry opened nearby. Construction workers lived in tents and sheep wagons. The first shipment of cement left the plant in 1907. The ca-pacity of the plant at that time was approximately 1,500 barrels per day and less than 500,000 barrels per year. Construction on the new plant at Devil's Slide began in 1947. Production began in Sep-tember of 1948. The Ideal plant at Devil's Slide was one of the first new cement plants to be placed in operation fol-- lowing the end of World War II. A consistent maintenance and modification program at the plant makes it today one of the most modern cement plants in the United States. Each step in the manufacture of portland cement is checked by frequent chemical and phy-sical tests in plant laboratories. The finished product is also analyzed and tested to insure that it complies with the ex-acting applicable specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials, the Federal Specifications Executive Com-mittee or other specifying agencies. Today, portland cement is produced in some 170 plants in the United States by ap-proximately 60 competitive companies. The word "port-land- " describes the type of product. Many materials used in cement the spaces between aggregate particles are compltely filled with the paste. Concrete is a mixture in which a paste of Portland ce-ment and water binds aggre-gates (inert materials such as sand and gravel, crushed stone, blast-furnac- e slag or manufac-tured light weight aggregate) into a rocklike mass as the paste hardens through the chemical action of the cement and water. A durable, strong concrete is obtained by cor-rectly proportioning and pro-perly mixing ingredients so that the entire surface of every particle of aggregate from the smallest grain of sand to the ' largest piece of coarse mater-ial is completely coated with the cement paste, and so that First cement made by man from England Joseph Aspdin, a bricklayer of Leeds, England, first, rnade portland cement early in the 19th century by burning powd-ered limestone and clay in his kitchen stove. He called it "portland" cement because it resembled in color the stone quarried on the Isle of Port-land off the British Coast. Aspdin's greatest contribu-tion was his method of care-fully proportioning limestone and clay, pulverizing them and burning the mixture into clinker which was then ground into finished cement. He laid the foundation for the portland cement industry of today, which every year processes li-terally mountains of limestone, clay and other raw materials into a powder so fine it will pass through a sieve capable of holding water. Portland cement, the basic ingredient of concrete, is a closely controlled chemical combination of life, silica, al-umina, iron oxide and small amounts of other inbredients to which gypsum is added in the final grinding process to regulate the, setting time of the concrete. Lime and silica make up approximately 85 per cent of the mass. The exacting nature of port-lan- d cement manufacture re-quires some 80 separate and continuous operations, the use of a great deal of heavy ma-chinery and equipment, and large amounts of heat and elec-trical energy. 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