Show utah litah editors pay visit to cement plant publishers see sec operations of devils slide concern in sunday tour that the process of manufacturing cement is not just one of crushing rock and that in reality it is a technical and an important import important ani industry was revealed to members of the utah state press association in a tour of the union portland cement company plant at devils slide sunday the tour was conducted by james G connell superintendent ol of the local plant and publishers were shown the complete operation from the quarries to the completed product bagged bagge d and ready for delivery to customers nr mr connell in pointing to the mountain just west of the plant explains that the local firm had been in op ration at the present quarry arry for or 30 0 leafs years and that the epply supply of lime rock used was estimated at years from rock crushing operations the visitors were taken through the mill and shown the means of conveying the materials to the i kilns kalns for processing the plant in its present operation has three kilns kalns i 1 io 0 feet long and eight feet in diameter these kilns kalns are rotated in the process of cooking and coal dust is blown into cylinders bringing the temperature to 2701 de degrees ees fahrenheit from this P point t the material is cooled and conveyed to further crushing operations before it is finally sent for mixing with other materials and final bagging mr ir connell stated that men are employed at the plant at the present time with operations on a 24 hour basis the establishment at the present time is turning out bags daily from the quarry to the bagging department it takes three days to produce one bag of cement he said of interest to the publishers is is the new construction now underway of an entirely new plant for the devils slide concern being constructed by stearns steams rogers company the new plant will cost 3 r and will treble the output pu ron of ement cement locally this new plant to be the largest in the country countr is expected to be completed by october the efficiency of the new plant was as pointed out by the fact that even though the output of cement is trebled the operations can be comple completed led by the same number of employed emp loyes the local cement plant is one of nine owned by the company throughout the united states and when completed the new plant of the company at devils slide will be the largest in the firm |