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Show DAY BROTHERS' INTERESTS HAVE BRICHT PROSPECTS The plaster stone project the Day brothers have been working out for the past ten years looks good. The stone is very beautifnl and can be sawed from the mountain in any size desired. The great difficulty tbey have encountered encoun-tered in polishing and hardening the stone they think is at last overcome. They have discovered a process by the use of which the stone can be given a glaze like glass and at the same time as hard as marble. They have also discovered an alum mine and the ex-I ex-I pense of this ingredient of the chemic- als used in the treatment will be con-: siderably lessened. The alum deposit i may also be used for commercial purposes. pur-poses. If these reports prove to be true it looks like they have worked out a road to a fortune. We can at least , hope that it is true, for if it be true they will never put their wealth under a bushel. |