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Show 1 PAGE SIX PROVO- (UTAH) DAILY- HERALD, . WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY " 28, 1940 Gilsonite Industry Is Growing .Rapidly A thriving r.ew lr.-luatry in Utah Ij the nur.inp. proceMir.g, ani d-stntution cf g-Jscnite. found cr.'y ia Utah in quantities large t :. .. ;. h to tr of trccicnJinis com- nirtij-.ls Teak Gilsonite com-p-iiiy is ore of five, and the oniy lucal company operating mines. Owners and directors of the cor-j:.raticn cor-j:.raticn are Ray Davis, Salem, r r.Atr Henry Gardner. Span-Lih Span-Lih Fork. Trtaaurer; I. E. Brock-bur-it. Provo, secretary, and Em et H-.u Un. Sj-ar.h Fork, vice-r vice-r ri-.r.t. The corrrany" mine la located near Myton ia Duchesne county, u:.-?re 12 to 23 men are employed, its prceAajr.;? plant and usr houses are in Jtovo, at Seventh Sev-enth South and Uiuversity ave-r.u. ave-r.u. where J3.CKH) to $1,000 Is expanded'' monthly for materials ar.J payrolls. The ore U a hard, dried oil-It oil-It Li a Kick, shiny tar-l;ke substance. sub-stance. C&tonite is used in tne manufacture cf many products such aJt paints, lacquers, varnishes, varnish-es, rutber, compounds, battery boxes, rtJifnsr material, printer inks, phonograph records, auto-r.-rue tires. linoleums, molds for jn;r factories and steel mills, patented road materials, floor corn positions, etc A new use which has recently Mrs. Smith Holes Provo's Pregress In Past 15 Years Ve Mm. Mary F. Smith. Provo city auditor, first became a?fLateU with the affairs of the city in 1S.C, many changes have taken place, both la In account-teg' account-teg' system and in he physical el-up of the municipality. In that year the present city and county budding; was com- r r ( I 4 J V. f f 1 LA 1 iir. maiiv f. sitmi pUted. At that time oca fund carri'd all the city's accounts. Breas today, there are 11 separate sep-arate funds, each hxvir.g Its control con-trol cf TtKicfcera and receipts. In lDwS s: ht-'y over 2000 checks were tvu-d t jt all city accounts aad la 153 there were 13.CJO. or an lcTta at 13.COJ la the 1 years. 0-r charges have been Kd in the accour.tlr.g Ttem -astl t- office Is corataatly iia-jrtriaz iia-jrtriaz to keep up with current acecusvUns1 practices. The rrt-us la -the water-w&rJta water-w&rJta department have increased from f!U&3 la 152?$ to $TS.1H Li 12. an tscrcaj cf $12.03?. Th gtmrxl 6T c;ertx fund. In-tX-iz txxa anj other aundry rrfis anvou-tfd to 1115.M7 Li 225' aa.1 tave .-.criel ItCtJ.COO Li l$m 1 1 year rrv-. CXhcr fund evr-.-es hiv increas4 propor-tic::Iy. propor-tic::Iy. Or. cf th r-.mt plfssar.t lm-y lm-y revTrti!a la Prtsvo waa tit cr.rt:-x of It "ytiyttrrf Iit?" en F-t Cer ter street Into la .:-.-! MemorUl park. tir-? Uki-f t-e iuprtijn of former t'.'-i-.-r'r J. in.-r.er Jacvtien. firr.r O-.TJM.r.er Walter I. LEW ROLLER T.IILLS CO., Inc. PHONE 1C LLIII, UTAH- Utah County's Oldest Flour JIanufacturers Manufacturers of High Grade FLOUR AIID FEED Insist Upon Turkey Brand Flour From Your Grocer! Leen found for this product la that of making cores, facings and floor sands in foundries. G:Isonites are classified as selects se-lects with a melting- point from "03 degrees F and up, and the seconds, general start at approximately ap-proximately 300 degrees and run to 450 degrees or higher. In order to meet market demands de-mands for a higher melting point gilsonite, the processing plant was erected In Provo. , Gistle Peak Gilsonite company cwn a vast supply cf pure gilsonite gil-sonite depositsT the vein being three and a half feet thick. From 20 to 30 tons are mined dally. The output can be and will prob- atly be increased to as high as 50 tons daily. En gtand. Norway, Germany and many sections of the United States have received -gilsonite from this company. The Castle Ieak .Company's Investment In-vestment in Frovo amounts to $15,000. The investment at the mine is between $23,000 and $30,- 000 for hoist, power plant, tip ples, bins, bunk houses, etc. From 14 to 20 men are usually employed em-ployed at the Provo plant. As new uses are found for gilsonite gil-sonite which is only found in Utah, the new Industry ls bound to see growth and expansion from year to year. Whitehead enlarged the area and added the present greenhouse, which provides plants for the cemetery and various parks and puUie grounds. The Timpanogos golf course, begun under much opposition and constructed under protest in the old "First ward pasture" Is a credit to the city and with the new golf clubhouse and its surroundings sur-roundings Is one cf the "best in the West." Some of the other improvements improve-ments during- these years are the Daughters of Utah Pioneers building1 In North park, swimming swim-ming pooL hall park, city barns, modern restrooms In parks, parking park-ing of the city and county building build-ing grounds, removing- of old courthouse and old fire station from city and county building grounds, the new public library and, the Increased recreational activities, including Canyon Glen park In Provo canyon. "From the horse-and-buggy days in 1920. when the city paid several thousand dollars for hay, teamsters and sprinkling of streets, and the cost of the limited lim-ited paving was near $3 per front foot to the property owners, to- day gives us a grand change with nearly every street paved and at a price of about one-tenth the cost," says Mrs. Smith. Lot Angele Red-Faced Over Tourist Bureau Aid LOS ANGELES TJ! Los An geles county supervisors got a shock when Informed they had UTiwitUr.gly been sponsoring "an undesirable lourlit bureau' which permitted thousands of peor'e to enjoy a vacation In California at no expense to them selves but at considerable to the county. The formula of opera tion, it was said, was as fol lows : Thumb your way to Califor nia; sign up for county Indigent rehef; after a pleasant California Califor-nia vacation, get a county-paid free ticket home." That ls the system that has been crspJoyed for returning un employed persona to their home states. Rabbit Drive Proceeds . Go to Red Cross Fund ANTLEU, Sask. ftJT Many have teen the ways devised by Cana&urj to raise money for the Canadian Red Cross, but the residents resi-dents cf Antler made an animal pest pay dividends. More than 1ST rabbits were cJbajed Ir.to a specially-built corral cor-ral ty men and women who covered cov-ered an area of approximately four miles la their aearch for the bunr.K-s, the sale cf which retted l. D. The money wi.'l be added to the Eel Cross money ,. already gathered by Antler residents. GILSONITE INDUSTRY EMPLOYS MANY MEN .-V.-..,,. i - - - r The Castle Peak Gilsonite company, made up of Utah county men, mines are in the Uintah basin, while its warehouse ia in Provo. to all parts of the world. . " Contracting Business Springville Specialty As Springville'a high school art project has given that city a definite place in the esthetic realms of the country, so has the general contracting business placed the town foremost among cities of its size engaged in similar sim-ilar industrial enterprises. 1 . When confronted with the fact that Springville has more people engaged In contracting than any other permanent city in the United Unit-ed states in proportion to its population, some Idea Is gained of tne importance of the Industry io mis community. 70 Years Rack While the beginning of Spring ville'a history as a contracting center dates back possibly 60 or 70 years, it has been reported that more than half of the high ways built In Utah, during the past 20 years, la the work of Springville r contractors, and this in addition to the hundreds of milea of highways which they have constructed ? In othef states. The contracting business la said . to furnish employment - annually to approximately 300 local men, bringing into the community a yearly payroll of some $250,000. .The question is often asked why. and how did Springville so early in its history become .Interested .In-terested in the contracting business. busi-ness. The story in brief, is: Soon after the golden spike had been driven on the line of the. Union Pacific near Promontory, Utah, connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic by rail, there began an era of feverish activity in railroad rail-road construction. The small Mormon colony in Springville having found it difficult diffi-cult to eke out a livelihood from farming, had already established a successful freighting tfusiness. When the new era of economic transportation loomed the Springville' Spring-ville' "freighters with their , fine horsesand outfits were anxious and reaojc to transfer to railroad grades. Packard .Starts'' i " Their chance for experience ANOTHER UTAH . : CASTLE PEAK GILSONITE COMPANY A HE17 INDUSTRY HAS DEEH ESTABLISHED h " '" UTAH COUNTY AT PflOUO CASTLE PEAK GILSONITE GO ' i -i . . ,s' . ; - RAY DAVIS - - President and Manager HENRY GARDNER - - ... Treasurer PLANT LOCATION SEVENTH SOUTH & UNIV. AVE. . Phone 1623 .. t I 1 operates a thriving industry. Its The company ships the products ' ?v- came when Milan O. Packard, Sr., proprietor of a general merchandise mer-chandise store here, undertook to build, a narrow gauge line from Springville to his coal interests in Scofield. As there was no money, the workmen were paid mostly in calico from the store and when the railroad was completed com-pleted it was. known as the "Calico "Cal-ico railroad. From this construction, however, how-ever, . dates the- devotion of Springville j to the construction industry, especially engineering construction involving large-scale excavation work as in railway and highway building. As railroad construction decreased, de-creased, and highway construction gradually took its place, the latter lat-ter work "J attracted the interest of Springville railroad ' contractors. contrac-tors. Irrigation work also furnished fur-nished some' Important dirt moving mov-ing contracts at this time. Springville Spring-ville men subcontracted for example, ex-ample, the first canal to take water from the . Grand Canyon, now the Colorado river, on the western slope in Colorado. This was but one of the many early construction jobs contracted or subcontracted to Springville build- Strange as it may seem, the PAYROLL' . FOR lOUNTY This company is a Utah company, with a gilsonite mine in Duchesne county, and a processing plant in Provo. . More and Better Payrolls . Mean Prosperity for Utah! ERNEST KNUDSEN - - Vice President I. E. IiROCKBANK PLEASANT GROVE CANNING CO. PROVIDES OUTLET FOR PRODUCTS Starting with a small plant in 1915, the Pleasant Grove ; Can ning company has grown until at present three large modern fac tories with a total capacity of 500,000 cases are operated. The first plant was in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. At present, factories are operated at Pleasant , Grove, Orem and , Provo. Annually the company pays $700,000 and has an annual payroll pay-roll of $100,000, according to West Jacobs, manager .of the company. Products purchased - Include strawberries, raspberries, cherries, cher-ries, apricots, peaches, beans, peas, tomatoes and pumpkins. , In the ' 25 years of operation, the company has met every payroll pay-roll promptly, thereby . developing develop-ing a cash income to the thou sands of growers in Utah county thai; is dependable and regular. Methods and equipment used in canning are of the latest type. The dependable reputation of the Pleasant Grove Canning com pany has resulted in expenditure of many thousands of dollars in equipment by the Campbell Soup firm at the company's . Orem plant. This equipment is used for manufacture of Campbell's fancy tomato products. . " urge to build has been handed down from early Springville pioneer pio-neer contractors to their sons, and we find most of 'the Springville Spring-ville contractors today are sons and grandsons of the early-day railroad builders. Although their methods and types of equipment J have charged, the integrity or Springville builders remains the same. It is said that never in the history of the industry, has a Springville road contractor failed to complete his contract without being taken over by his bonding company and never has a Spring ville road contractor defaulted. The extent of which the con tracting business , has definitely benefited this city Is reflected In the many fine homes, business concerns, civic projects and other Interests In which local contractors contrac-tors are now Interested. nurlnc the Ice A ere. some ele phants or mammoths moved south tn warmer climes, while some re fused to "move and grew wooly! coats instead. Secretary PROVO, UTAH P.O. Box 327" Manager WEST JACOP :WhatJ Utah'. 'Gouaiity Makes' Ask Your Grocer , - .... for UTAH UALLEY - PLEAS ANT 6R0UE FRESH. DIPE' . , 1 i ; -, -, Brands You Can Depend Upon! f . ' ' ' ' -.. ' ' - ; ' ' f V: r ' - . ' ' ,Jr -3.-. ' ' - ' ; ; r ' . "t "We appreciate our responsibility re-sponsibility in this community com-munity to. purchase the growers products at the highest possible price. - A -f '. - :" ,J" - -'--V "Our sincere desire is in cooperating w i t h the Growers in Utah County in helping you solve your Produce, Marketing and Canning Problems!" Our labor payroll is $10,000 Per Month! Amount paid to Growers Exceeds $250,000 Per Year Pleasant Gaamiii H. W. JACOBS, Mffr. Provo :: Orem :: Pleasant Grove The Largest Produce Buyers . in Utah County , . ; Candy Company In Nciv Location Manufacturers and jobbers of candy of all kinds, the George A. Hansen Candy company of Provo is located In their new plant at 820 West Center street, one of Provo's substantial business establishments estab-lishments with a nice payroll. The company distributes its products throughout the central, . eastern and southern Utah trade territory, according to Mr. Hansen Han-sen who employes four salesmen. The new location of the candy j company on West Center is a great improvement over the old location occupied for many years, says Mr. Hansen. CAMPUS JOKE ON JOKERS , SACRAMENTO, Cal. (V.V.) Somebody at Placer Junior college col-lege made the mistake of nominating, nom-inating, aa a Joke, Miss Juanita Grlmshaw as commissioner in charge of all student athletics, including those of the j male students. stu-dents. She took It seriously, campaigned cam-paigned even more seriously, qualified for a runoff election and defeated two members of the varsity football squad for the post. ... Makes Grove You Co. |