Show THE OGDEN (UTAH) 16 STANDARD-EXAMINE- R SUNDAY MORNING 1935 MAY 8 Jf m&nd Whet I It Is t ht Business Is along the footjoTthe mountain from which it takes its sustenance the Ideal Cement Co plant at Devil’s Slide is an inte-gral part of northern Utah Indus- - ‘Started in 1907 the plant has kept pace with the tremendous iit increase in cement production in the last half century Today it is a modern hig ly s i e opera- tion offeriiig employment for 125 to 200 people In a year the Devil’s Slide plant can produce almost 700 million pounds of cement valued at more than six million dollars Most of its output is used in northern Utah Situated in an ideal location the plant rests practically astride very little in the past few years However its production figures have increased in proportion to the industrial growth of northern Utah as many new uses have been found for cement ot Mlrkt One of its biggest new markets is the ready-mixeconcrete com- panies This has also proved a boon £o £be borne owner who oc casionally has use for concrete °” Birt d up by federal government struction experts Rotary Kiln Unk o£ slurry has b blended as the u slurry is elevated heated end of a long 10- foot diameter rotary kiln The kiln is pitched downward so that con-Sprawl- 400-fo- VW ot ? Tithe 400-fo- 55 r J 'Ey 'r 47 v-- 4 ' Xz 1 ot i WELL ARRANGED — The compact arrangement of facilities at the Ideal Cement Co plant at Devil’s new plant Slide is apparent in this bird’s-ey- e view In the center are buildings of the ultra-modertrees i constructed a few years ago The old buildings are almost obscured by th n gravity effect carries the slurry toward the burning end The material passes through He can now buy ready-mixecqjicrete of a better quality than the various stages of drying and average layman can mix at a rea- - chemical change before it reaches sonable price its fiery furnace In the burning of end of the kiln the mixture is manufacture the Basically cement seems simple You take subjected to temperatures of 2500 some impure limestone burn’ it to 2700 degrees Fahrenheit The resultant clinker is cooled the clinker int0 fine P°w Inlmountairreaches abovet grind of amount to a small about 100 degrees It is then der add and is enough limestone basic food fowwJUPfcl A § for its huge kilns to keep them gypsum to control the setting ground into powder of cement in operation foir decades Foster is th4 Fred sacker cement automatic texture mixed with about 4 per time POURING— Operating can sack device he Co this With of Ideal the an employee Cement to 'oll°w the raw ma‘c”al areGaeo!ThehiCdealS pllnt' nt P!um nd hen becomes hasown as But a carlbad of cement in' jig time the cement it winds its way through s cement The cement is stored in bulk mill to become conis to find many amazing waiting for a customer No ment is bagged at the Ideal plant of until an order for bagged cement There is the deafening roar rock the is received chains dragging huge crusher a mammoth down into The automatic bagging machine silence of fills four bags simultaneously and the caught-breatthe experiment table In the win- - Synchronized with a scale on ter only a few hundred yards which the bag sits the machine tempera- - automatically shuts off when a separates e heat bag has been filled to the desired tures from the of the two great kilns weight and seals the bag to be One man operating the found limestone Impure the best raw material for making cement is blasted from the mountain in back of the plant site Enough raw material is torn from the mountain with each blasting operation to provide food for the vilUge'near thi 55 Plant for approximately one year pUnt Sevewl of the key person Dumped Into Crusher nel ijve in neighboring communi- The rock is dumped into the ties where they have established crusher It is dragged down into permanent homes It is unlikely that when Joseph the machine’s tremendous jaws by great lengths of overgrown Aspdin made the first batch of chains This machine breaks the Portland cement in England in material into hunks approximate- - 1824 by his crude and laborious ly four inches in size It then methods he envisioned today’s goes into another machine which inch niodern cejnent plants crushes it into one-haNor could he have conceived of pieces multitude of uses to which 1800-foot An conveyor takes J? new een Put to bins the substance storage The THAR SHE BLOWS— Periodically a heavy explosion reverberates in Weber Canyon as blasting crews where it is of essential material bonding kept until the insati- - concrete cement cement-makintons for raw of of material condown thousands found is in bring able amietite of the kiln decrete and that highways bridges another feeding P 1 mands the continent Concrete run- i span of wet the In process making i 8int commercial cement which is used at the We- - waJs nd planes mihtary water added is ber Canyon plant r V Tremendous concrete dams to the MW material durins it store flood I final grinding before entering the ment of wateronfor the develop''Si of our I kiln power many This combination is called rivers Concrete lined tunnels ' A ) slurry canals carry this stored waThe slurry is stored in slurry and to ter arid lands and transform x'f-tanks or silos where they are thm into vital-foo' carefully sampled and analyzed producing ans of from each batch Samples slurry' n Hydraulic cement which has are taken into the laboratory 2' ability to set and harden un- which operates ori a basis water through the interaction der 4 Here it is tested to insure ac- 1 of ingredients is not a mod-tiocurate blending for the producof a cement that will meet er” lnveution The ancient Ro- A and sev the standards Ideal’s product ma®s ad? saJ a ( eral structures made from their ti must meet 4 ' AC rv material are still standing in These rigid standards are set J remarkable state of b the American Society for Test-- ? presentw ?' v Ving Materials Cement sold to the tl0n x XV jw 'v government or contractors for First Attempts use on government construction The first attempts to develop must also meet specifications set modern cement are usually cred- - — r ul V11” - i d V ( 1 - ' y-T- - s 1 x rj t -- m V a - rV T? V ‘V x'4 i first-clas- ce-tras- - V V’ V ts 3 X - L h sub-freezin- r g 2600-degre- lf V 1 y d ' s “ 24-ho- v- - n 5 4 v e : fK - y v- - V P vw W h ' i ‘ v'- - tiAnk ited to an English engineer charged with the building of a lighthouse off the coast of Corn- - DOWN THE CHUTE— A truck load of raw limestone ore goes into the huge jaws of the crushing machine Ilugp chains regulate the flow and grinding wheels below crush the “rock” into ir7Trr7s?7-p J Me produced cement by burn- J Given only one chance in 1000 to live even considering the possibility of surgery an Ogden lad a victim of cancer had both eyes removed when he was four months old and now at 7 is just as healthy as any other active little boy He’s Mark Seamons son of Mr and Mrs Vern Seamons of 3410 Jefferson Ave '“We credit early diagnosis and immedi- - v ate treatment with saving our boy’s life” 4 n CORRIDOR OF HEAT— The two H s on either side of e places in Utah in the winter time In August the makes the aisle hotter-thai 400-kiln- 2600-degre- n i A o mother declared “As he was only an infant the ailment was more difficult to de-tect The doctor discovered the growth with- in his eyes covering the retina when the was only three months old” The surgery was performed at Idaho Falls Idaho Mrs Seamons said Other than for the loss of his sight Mark a friendly little boy who loves people recov- ered completely And as is often the case handicapped in one respect he excells in another Ha is in exceptionally talented pianist and organist playing entirely by ear According to his mother he began pick- ing out tunes on the piano when he was just 2 Vi years old playing melodies he heard on the radio or phonograph His ability has de- veloped to such an extent he has been fea-this aisle make it one of the hottest" tured on several radio and television pro- heat generated in their burning ends grams " i-- IW— n WrXs cyI it th ' ybmf in- ‘J ? - V-- i V-l a t M i r f‘ L 'u' among his countless other firsts also helped develop the first rotary kilns r ' E-- tf ? J uK"iV'rV' Cancer Operation Heys Happy Too Despite Loss of Both Eyes X - it) Lad Survives 1000-to-- l 2 11 The Scourge Can De Defeated CONVENIENT— Aftei the smoke clears there’s plentyof limestone foritrucks to load up and haul to plant This mountain of material is practicably on the back doorstep of the cement factory ? s 1 1 limestone produced the best hy- draulie cement instead of the pure stone formerly preferred The best cement is still made from the impure stone The clinker used to produce cement today was discarded in those early days because it was so hard to grind In the century Joseph Aspdin experimented with the discarded clinker and found it produced a better cement So the situation was reversed The resemblance of the mortar of the new cement to a natural rock quarried at Portland England led to the naming the new cement Portland Thomas A Edison a yf ’Tn 1 ing several different limestones it was he who found that impure mid-nineteen- pebbles four-inc- h wall in 1760 g ( fi A wniwn iiiiinmurwui tIni i nil r ' ll liimifiiriitii - j - f i INTO THE JAWS— Horace Straight manager of the Devil’s Slide plant of the Ideal Cement Co watches as huge chains puU the raw ore into the first phase of the grinding operation A little over two years ago he began play- - jng the organ picking up the technique as he did on the piano “He loves the organ and won’t play the piano if there is an organ around” his mother said She also said they have been advised not to give him lessons as they might affect the distinctive style which he has developed Mark has two sisters and a brother San-hi- s ra Larry 13 and Karen 11 He enjoys playipS wilh them and with youngsters at school but much prefers playing the piano or listening to the radio television or phono-chil-d graph Mrs Seamons said He is in his second year at the State School for the Blind and is progressing nice- ly his mother said He is learning to read braille and gets considerable enjoyment from this Both of Mark’s parents are teachers The family moved here from Logan last Decem- her to be near the School for the Blind so the lad could be home evenings and on weekends Mrs Seamons teaches at Dee School and Mr Seamons at Washington Junior High Mark recently made guest appearances on radio and television programs in Boise Idaho in connection wtih the opening of the cancer drive there i V I V c ( 'A i f S’- d r j STRONG STUFF— The pressure applied to this small piece of finished cement before it started to crumble was well aboe the normal stress cement is required to take Every batch‘ of cement is given thisltest - h |