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Show UTAH CRUCIBLES ARE PROVED SUPERIOR The. tests , recently made on the products pro-ducts of the Clinton Ellerbeck Clay Manufacturing company have been completed and are satisfactory. ' The fire bricks made by the company when subjected to a white heat and then plunged into cold water remain uncracked and the edges remain unln-1 unln-1 juved under the roughest handling, and the building brick, .which is also Are brick, is a most finished product. The crucibles and assay supplies are without 1 comparison in this country. The results obtained by R. H. Officer from the most severe tests on the crucibles cru-cibles and sroriflers are approached only by the English Battersea crucibles and. prove the local product far. superior to that of the Colorado Fire Clay company, com-pany, which are generally in use The Utah crucible and the Battersea were the only ones to successfully stand. a temperature -of more. than 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. The American Smelting and Refining company, which has used the crucibles recommend them mort highly and have ordered 4000 of them-j The works of the company are In he Oquirrh range, about thirty miles out of the city, and on the line of the Short Line branch to Tlntie. The company . is . hot at present equipped to supply the demand for its products, but a bigger plant will short, i ly be installed. |