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Show TO UTILIZE GYPSUM IN MHNY PROFITABLE WAYS of home-made plaster per day Is naturally natur-ally expected to cut off imports of this article in the future to this extent, and inure to the advantage of the State, to the extent of many thousands, which have been going to other States tor this very generally used and necessary building material. And In view of the probable building boom that Is just setting In for Salt Lake, and other cities near, the financially-strong new company expects to find It necessary to soon increase its capacity. The new industry will employ about forty men steadily. The gypsum deposits of Sevier county that have always been considered useless, use-less, now bid fair to bring many thousands thou-sands of dollars Into that section and enrich the entire State, not only by supplying sup-plying local markets with commodities which have been imported, but by bringing bring-ing In cash payments on exports. How to Utilize. Arrangements have Just been made for reducing this gypsum into fiber plaster for walls of buildings, for wall construction construc-tion itself, for fertilizers, and for dentists' den-tists' uses. These latter are the smaller feature ot the business that the promoters promo-ters contemplate doing, however. It will be the manufacture of fiber plaster for interior wall finish, and plaster for partitions par-titions in buildings and a material for rejuvenating farm lands that are to constitute con-stitute the principal practical utilities to which this natural resource of L"t at-will at-will be applied. Company Organizes. To accomplish this the National Gypsum Gyp-sum company has been organized, with a caDttal stock of J250.000. and of which former JuJge William King Is president, V. G. Cannon, secretary and treasurer, and Joseph Cannon, general manager, while the board ot directors also Includes former Judge John Burton, Joseph Ray ot Fillmore and Aler. Jennings of Levan. The company owrs upwards of 19.000 acres of ground upon which there are gypsum deposits galore millions of tons of the m'.nera', in fact and much of which Is available. Tc reduce and refine It a $50,000 mill will bo erected In Lost Creek :anyon. within three miles of Saline. Sa-line. From the railroad, a switch will be constructed, so that cars may be loaded direct from the plant. The mill is to have 150 tons capacity every twenty-four hours. The machinery has been contracted con-tracted for. and the company expects to have the wheels turning and crushers at work within four months. Old Project Culminates. This is the announcement which Alex Jennings made yesterday. He said it .is the culmination of a project upon which he has worked for about eleven years, having commenced by locating the ground personally, when few people had recog-nlxed recog-nlxed the money-making possibilities of converting the gypsum, nor the utility of the mineral for anything practical whatever. what-ever. Mr. Jennings was therefore feeling feel-ing pretty happy over the outlook ot the venture which he aid his associates consider con-sider Is one of the most promising, from a financial standpoint, of any Industrial scheme launched In Utah for many years. Joseph Ray, who assisted In the promotion pro-motion of the enterprise, says he personally per-sonally has great confidence In the proposition. prop-osition. Judging It from the standpoint of filling a long-felt want, and also holding money at home' as well as bringing In , new money. The gentlemen putting In most of the capital are presumably themselves them-selves fully satisfied that the scheme Is pregnant with dollar-earning possibilities, possibili-ties, as otherwise they would not have engaged to support it with their capital. One Other Mill The only other mill of the kind in the State Is In Nepal canyon, and Mr. Jennings Jen-nings says that theer Is an immense trade in fiber-plaster which both the plants' yield cannot fill, and therefore it is expected ex-pected that the competition which the new mill might otherwise create will not serve to reduce the profits of either one ot them. But the addition of 160,000 tons |