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Show y - n-:- ' . -'. . . ; Mr,w . . ,.-'1 j v- k . , i , -A, .... I f . . ' ' ' " . 1 C ' " V .-.:, .. I , I '. ' " , '1 v.: . . : : .-rVTTiv iHv. i -4 Overall view of the Ideal Cement Company plant, one of the major industries in Utah shows new storage-loading 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 cement 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 Company Com-pany which was owned by citi- zens of Utah, with a few exceptions. ex-ceptions. The Devil's Slide plant has been a part of Ideal Cement Company through predecessor 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 capacity 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 September 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 physical phy-sical tests in plant laboratories. The finished product is also analyzed and tested to insure that it complies with the exacting ex-acting applicable specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials, the Federal Specifications Executive Committee Com-mittee or other specifying agencies. Today, portland cement is produced in some 170 plants in the United States by approximately ap-proximately 60 competitive companies. The word "port-land" "port-land" describes the type of product. |