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Show I Spotlighting Spot1ightin SpotlightingUTAH ] LUTAHUtah LUTAH UTAH UTAHUtahs Utah Utahs s Newest IndustryUtah IndustryUtah Industry IndustryUtah Utah lead makes the best bestIwhlte bestwhite bestwhite Iwhlte white lead paint pamt in m the world worldas worldas worldas as everyone should know but butpractIcally butpractically butpractically practIcally no one knows t'1at t1at t'at tat ' ' thatUtah t'1atUtah t'atUtah Utah coal dust makes the best bestvarmsh bestvarnish bestvarnish varmsh varnish in m the world A new 111 in industry 111dustry dustry for Utah the production productionof of resin resm ( a varnish varmsh base ) from fromwaste fromwaste fromwaste waste coal dust is now under underway underway underway way at the mouth of Deer Creek creekin creekin [ 111 in Huntmgton Huntington canyon within wIthm a few afew miles of Price From dus chis chisresin , his hisresm ) resm resin ( a solid . ' lexuded pine pme trees ) varmsh varnish varmshIS varnishis varnislis IS refined refmed Coal as any school schoolchild schoolchild schoolchild child knows is a combustIble combustIblemmeral combustiblemineral combustiblemineral mmeral mineral formed from vegetable vegetab1 vegetablematter vegetablematter e ematter matter under great pressure Some pressureSome of Utah Utahs s 196 billion tons tonsof tonsof tonsof of workable coal was formed formedfrom formedfrom formedfrom from pine pme trees and is rich nch In Inresm inresin inresin resm resin an amber material easJIJ easilj easJIJrecogmzed easiljrecognized easilyrecognized recogmzed recognized by coal users A lot lotof lotof lotof of the resin resm is separated from fromthe fromthe fromthe the coal at the mine mme during durmg the thescreenmg thescreening thescreening screenmg screening process and the dust dustbearmg dustbearing dustbearing bearmg bearing resin resm has long been cast castaSide castaside castaside aSide as waste In fact Utahminers Utah Utahmmers Utahminers mmers miners avoid the resin resm Impreg Impregnated impregmated impregnated nated mated possiblebecause coals as much as possible possibleIbecause because of the excess soot it pro Ibecause duces produces Only this year however howeverIwas howeverwas howeverwas Iwas was a means found to utilize the theiresm theresin theresin iresm resin wastes which now btds bids btdsIfarr bidsfair bidsfair fair to become one of Utah s m mportant mportant mportant Ifarr portant industriesHow industries mdustnes industriesHow How It is DoneDeveloped DoneDeveloped Done DoneDeveloped I IHow Developed by Adrian Adnan Nagel Nagelvoort Nagelvoort Nagelvoort : voort well known Carbon coun county county county ty chemical engineer engmeer the resm resin resmIreclalmmg resinreclaiming resinreclaiming Ireclalmmg reclaiming process is mterest interest mterestmg interesting interesting mg ing Mr Nagelvoort Nagel voort s plant can canhandle canhandle canhandle handle 20 tons of resin resm bearing bearmg bearmgcoal bearingcoal coal dust dallv daily from which one ton of resin resm is ; separatedAfter separated Afterfive After Afterfive Aftefive five years of experimenting experlmentmg Mr MrNagelvoort MrNagelvoort MrNagelvoort Nagelvoort discovered that thatwhen thatwhen tha'when thawhen ' when the resin resm bearing bearmg coal dust dustIS dustis dusis IS dumped into mto salt water th thresin thresin ' > resm resin floats and the coal smks sinks smksSklmmmg sinksSkimming sinksSkimming Sklmmmg Skimming off the resin resm he e ex extracted extracted " tracted an undesirable wax by byplacmg byplacing byplacing placmg placing the resin resm in m fresh water waterThe waterThe waterThe The resin resm sank and the wax waxfloated waxfloated waxfloated floated Rid of the wax he sep separated separated separated arated the asphalt from the re resm resin resin sm sin by distillation and at this thiswntmg thiswriting thiswriting wntmg writing his plant can turn outone out outone outone one ton daily dally of the amber ml mltenal m mtenial mitenal : tenal tenial from which the finest fmest var varmsh varnish varmsh msh nish can be made The markE'tc markEtc markets marketsincidentally marketsincidentally ' ; mCldentally incidentally are simply beggmg begging beggmgfor beggingfor beggingfor for his product The plant is an anmterestmg aninteresting aninteresting mterestmg interesting system of tanks tankspumps tankspumps tankspumps pumps stills and laboratory laboratoryand laboratoryand laboratoryand and the Nagelvoort process wlll will wlllconvert willconvert willconvert convert thousands of tons of a awaste awaste awaste waste product into mto a valuable valuableand valuableand valuableand and useful material matenal promlsmg promising promlsmgmore promisingmore promisingmore more industrial 111dustnal activity in m Utah UtahDurmg UtahDuring UtahDuring Durmg During the past five years the theUtah theUtah ; utah publicity and mdustnal industrial mdustnaldepartment industrialdepartment industrialdepartment department has aided and en encouraged encouraged encouraged couraged Mr Nagelvoort in m hiswork his hiswork hiswork work The department sees a apOSSibility apossibility apossibility pOSSibility that the coal dust by byproduct byproduct byproduct product minus mmus its resin resm can be beconverted beconverted beconverted converted into mto coal brickletsCortinued bncklets bricklets [ ( Continued Contmued Cortinued , on last page ) SPOTLIGHTING UTAHContinued UTAH UTAHContinued ( Continued Contmued from first page ) thus utilizing uhlizll1g all of the waste wastecoal wastecoal wastecoal wastecoalSuggestion coal coalSuggestion Suggestion for MoabThe MoabThe Moab MoabThe i The Moab Lions club could couldrender couldrender couldrender render a great service to the thecommg thecoming thecoming commg coming tourists tounsts by sponsormg sponsoring sponsormgthe sponsoringthe sponsoringthe the erection of an adequate sign signat signat signat at the Arches National monu monument monument monument ment road function Junction At the pres present present present ent time travelers not on th thalert " alert pass the entrance to the thearea thearea thearea area never knowing knowmg they mISS mISSed missed missed ed one of the outstanding outstandmg scemc scenic scenicattractions scenicattractions attractions in the state Maps for HuntersFree HuntersFree Hunters HuntersFree Free big game maps for t the theasking theasking e easkmg askmg asking at all state license agents agentsare agentsare agentsare are now available says the Utah UtahFish UtahFish FISh & Game commission The Themaps Themaps maps provide an easy guide to toUtah toUtah Utah s game areas and carry de detailed detailed detailed tailed essential information mformatlon for forall forall forall all huntersWord hunters huntersWord Word to the WiseTravelers WiseTravelers Wise WiseTravelers Travelers over Utah mam main mamstem mainstem mainstem stem highways highwas hlghwa } s are already com corn complammg cornplainrng cornplaining plammg plainrng that road signs fail fall to togive togive togive give the distnce drstnce from one town townto townto townto to the other Tourists expectmg expecting expectinga expectmga a town every three miles as m in mthe inthe inthe the east experience a severe severelost severelost severelost lost feeling feelmg when they dnve drive dnvefor drivefor drivefor for 10 or 15 of 50 miles without withoutseemg withoutseeing withoutseeing seemg seeing a sign or any mdlcatlo indicatio-i indicatio i indicatioithat indicationthat - that it is so many miles to such suchand suchand ) and such a town townEither Either the I ies themselves or orgamzed organized orgamzedgroups organizedgroups organizedgroups lies groups should lose no time hme m in msponsormg insponsoring insponsoring sponsormg sponsoring the erection erechon of ade adequate adequate adequate quate signs at the entrances to totheir totheir totheir their towns appraising appralSlng the t tiur tiurists tmrists mr mrIStS IStS of the town s Importance importanceits ItS attractions attrachons its hlstoncal historical historicalbackground hlstoncalbackground background and above all a fnendly friendly afriendly afnendly welcomeSuggestion welcome welcomeSuggestion I ISuggestion Sug-gestion Sug gestion Suggestion - for Utah CitiesAn Cities CitiesAn I CItiesI An An eastern tourist recently recentlyIleft Ileft left recentlyleft Salt Lake City for Callfor Califor Callfor111a Califorma California 111a ma At Provo with the memory of memoryof Salt Lake scold s cold refreshmg refreshing , drll1kmg drinking refreshingdrinking refreshmgdrll1kmg fountains fountams in rn his mind mmd hedrove hothedrove -the the - the mindthe mmdthe weather was hot-he hot he hot - drove down the main mam stem look lookmg lookrng looking mg rng for a handy drinking drmkmg foun tam tain tam on the south side of the thestreet thestreet thestreet street He reports he found none noneand noneand noneand and left Provo extremely thirsty thirstyand thirstyand thirstyand and longing longmg for a drink drmk of good goodcold goodcold goodcold cold Utah water It must be re remembcred remembered remembcred membcred membered that a bnbblmg bubbling bnbblmgIdrmkll1g bubblingdrinking bubblingdrinking drinking fountain fountam is a cUriosIty curiosityto Idrmkll1g to eastern , tourists tounsts and a wel welcome welcome welcome come sight Most of Utah s bu bust bustling bu&tling butling & t tling ling cities clhes could benefit by of offermg offering offenng fermg fering the tourist a drink drmk of cold coldclear coldclear coldclear clear mountain mountam water Funnyhow Funnyhow Funny Funnyhow how visitors remember such suchthmgs suchthings suchthings thmgs things ' |