Show PORTLAND CEMENT relative to the article of rece recent t date la in the news and in connection with the commercial importance of 0 the marl deposit we believe that the following facts will interest all ot of our readers and especially those resident a in and near to brigham city it Is stated in the report of the henry S engineering co who made an extensive and thorough investigation and chemical tests of the deposit as well wall as thru their representative shipping a large quantity of the marl to phi lade ph lawhe re it was made into inlo portland cement cemen t that the deposit on the Dar barrens rens which is confined to 1300 acres in area that Is of a quality that will make cement Is sufficient to produce forty million barrels of oc commercial portland cement mr baker and his people in the east are arc contemplating the building of a plant that will produce 1500 barrels dally daily this is would be ba barrels frels in a mor month 1 t 1 or barrels yearly allowing allow 1 n g that the plant produced during ten months of the year which is allowing two months of time for pos possible loss of time due to repairs accidents etc to use up the deposit of marl and manufacture it into portland cement would take 90 years while in 1907 over fifty million barrels of portland campt cement were produced in the united states this was not enough to nil fill the demand and millions of barrels were imported from germany and england which indicates the great and growing demand for cement and the demand Is still outstripping the supply which even locally Is shown by the fact that cement is shipped from kansas and colorado into utah and the northwest this is truly the cement age and a vast amount of work th athas formerly been done with lumber Is now being done with portland cement and the various uses that it is being put to are increasing especially in our intermountain inter infer mountain west vest will portland cement be used in increasing quantities as the time progresses as we have a large expanse of territory to settle and improve that the use e pi of portland cement in the united states has not reached its maximum quantity is shown by statistics that in when the attention of builders and contractors had not been awakened to the uses that this material could be put only 1 vz million barrels were made and the larger part used was imported from foreign countries five years later in 1301 1901 twelve million and three quarters barrels were produced in this country and in 1906 thirty six million banels were made made in the united states in cei consent rent materials and industry of the united states it is remarked by edwin C eckel echel cement engineer connected with the department of the interior as follows the marvelous growth of the american portland cement industry during the last decade has created a widespread interest in the raw materials and inthe in the methods fa facture Leture of portland cement the important of the cementing materials in its importance to our civilization cement js Is surpassed among mineral products only by iron coal and oil in rate of annual increase in production during the last decade even these three products can not be compared with it that this deposit ot of marl whose value has not been discovered is good cement material has been proven provan beyond a question and that it is an unusual deposit and not compion common mr M r dakar baker says is proven by the fact that the deposit ot of box elder lake in the chemical and physical condition as it now exists has no counterpart in the west at least and pos sibly in the world as it Is not only valuable for cement but Is not covered with any overburden over burden of 0 foreign matter that has to be stripped it being good material from the surface this means that a barrel of portland cement can be produced at very low cost our readers will understand that the matters here referred to are deductions duct ions from reports submitted to us being from the henry S engineering company of philadelphia the editors |