Show MARING CEMENT true to the predictions of the officials of the ogden portland cement co the plant will be in operation by the first of the year indeed actual grinding will commence next week as all the machinery Is now installed the buildings are ill all completed the steam shovel is in working A order tracks have been laid out onto tile the marl beds and everything is lit in readiness to begin operations last monday the commencement was made when some of the raw material was hauled into the factory and mixed together As the mail leaves the dump cars it falls into a pit where rei resolves elves tn to 0 sets of long knives which cut it up tip and get it into proper condition to pump into large storage t tanks from whence it goes into aiuto a long tubular machine where the mali and clay are ground up till line by the use of cobble stones which revolve within the ma fa chine I 1 inc fi from out here the material matei ial goes into to larger storage tanks and front from there conducted into the burning tubes which are long iron drums lined with fire brick these two tubes are about 00 50 feet in length and about 5 feet in diameter running through them is a pipe which conducts the heat front from the furnaces which keeps the inside of the tubes at a white heat continually the tubes incline gently from the intake to the outlet and they revolve very slowly about once per minute As the mixed marl and clay is fed in at the higher end it is heated and gently con to the other end of the tube as it revolves being sufficiently burned when it reaches the outlet there are a string of iron buckets running on an endless chain right under tinder the revolving burning tubes into w which lich she heated marland and clay Is af posited deposited and elevated ted into nto a long iong trough up tip in ill the top cop of the building from whence into the grinding room where it is y this is done by a sort of roller process after which the material passes into more tubular machines emerging finally through a screen the coar coarser lumps amps being sent back tor for more gy grind ind ing while the fine cement is conveyed into it a cooler running alongside the building on the north from where it is conveyed into the storage bins the company has erected three large besides the boarding beardin house 1 and foundry the boarding 1 hoube louse is lighted by electricity furnished 1 by tile the brigham city potter plant I 1 and heated with etli steam generated in 1 1 the foundry it is the intention to enlarge 1 the alie plant as time goes on until there will be a small city of factory buildings the process is moat interesting to watch and when the plant gets to running in full swing it will be worth time to take a trip out and see what can be made from worthless barrens barren as we have so long regarded them |