Show CEMENT INDUSTRY AN INDEX AN-INDEX INDEX TO TRADE How Important Is the cement In In- Is made clear by a report recently Issued on the growth of I Ibe he the Industry In this country In n which this statement Is made The belief belleC that the majority of oC no bo tit country's cement output ou put finds its es way wa Into concrete pavements pa and sidewalks alks Is s erroneous Esti Estimates mates published by the U. U S. S geo geo- geological geological logical survey Indicate only 24 21 f per rt of or the production of or cement cement- last year barrels barrels la li used u E in paving and highways and about 7 per cent In sidewalks and private driveways eways while another 25 per cent is used in public and commercial buildings and nearly 21 1 per cent goes for tor miscellaneous farm purposes The remaining por- por iou tiou Is employed in small Individual ual percentages for or dwellings con concrete conCrete I crete hele pipe for sewer irrigation elc etc by b railways in bridges and dams and for miscellaneous pur- pur i In all concrete of or which Portland cement Is the vital Ingred ingred- Ingredient ingredient lent has hundreds of recognized lines es This great diversity of or uses and find the short period In transit and storage make the industry an un unusually unusually usually accurate indicator of con con- contraction traction t work It Jl has about punts plants in operation fn ln the United Suites Stites with a capitalization of or ap approximately I proximately which has had nearly persons on its pa pa- pa paull toll full ull and on an n annual output valued Is at least leaH as truly trul basic In construction as Iron or I steel 5 I u |