Show I 1 GYPSUM DEPOSITS BEING DEVELOPED patrick riley general manager of the green river gypsum company has been in salt lake city for several lays purchasing machinery for the extensive development of the gypsum deposits located about three miles south of green river ant and controlled cont oiled by himself and associates riley states that the demands for gypsum are increasing rapidly bince since the product is being used for building purposes and he is satisfied that the utah material can be placed on the market at a satisfactory profit the deposits are great in extent there being whole mountains of it according to riley and it is comparatively easily mined neat the surface the material is quite hard though it could be min mined with steam shovels it is said and at depth it lose its brittleness and can be sawed out or cut out with a knife its reduction is simple heat reducing it to a powder and is worth I 1 about twenty ci dollars ollars a ton plaster paris has heretofore been its principal form reduction but of late it is being converted into building blocks and plaster especially suitable to the building of partitions tit ions sills etc the green river deposits are to be extensively developed by riley and associates this year |