Show I U ENTERPRISE 6 RO IN I FEW PEOPLE AWARE OF AMOUNT Op OF F WORK BEING DONE I New Plant for fol Production of Hollow Plaster Blocks Located at al I 21 and Wall Wail Within tho tha past few months there thoro has sprung up here In Ogden a thriving I lug ing In progressive Industrial enterprise unheralded antI and without knowledge of or orcen even cen the time small majority of business businessmen I men mrm of oC the tho city Cht But Dut there has been no lack of real rol 10 1 businesslike activity acU Ity on the part of oC those thOle interested p in tho the proposition which promises to be a 3 factor In building buldin circles of this city and anul anI tributary sections The Time institution referred to is a fac Cac factory tory ton for tho time production of hollow pias plas plaster ter tei blocks blo s for tho building of oC the Sul Sullivan livan Ilvan patent fireproof wall and parti partition partition tion ion an Invention by J T r D Sullivan a it former Cormor Ogden contractors with whom Is la associated Judge A G C Horn of oC this city Tho The now no plant Is conveniently located locate near the D n R It G q tracks at first street and Wall Wail avenue where work has been rapidly rapid progress progressing progressIng ing lag since early in January of or this year ear turning out omit a supply of tho time building blocks for which a ready mar market market ket is awaiting In this nc method of if producing fireproof building material the whole scheme to have been worked out omit along alon lines hinc of utmost the machine machillo moulds In III which the hol lol hollow low blocks an are cast being arranged as asto asto asto to turn out omit the tho finished blocks locH In per jet perfect feet uniformity and with remarkable rapidity At tho local plant live five of those costing casting machines haw have been heen In Installed Installed installed stalled In the time center of the factory building a track the tho same arne as used for fOJ I mining purposes has been laid laii and time the machines set on specially designed I I trucks facilitating tho time I handling of Uio time blocks s before and uC af after j II tor ter the casting Each machine con consists consists of ofa a square steel box 12 1 inches high inside measurement lu in which tho the stool dividing plates arc ar arranged arranged arranged ranged according to the width of oC blocks bloc kB and then thon wood cores for the shaping of oC time the hollow space aro are placed I at the proper intervals Int rals and amid the time metal mota I I mesh meAh reinforcement lined up on eu either olther side The mould Is thou then ready read rell for time the I pouring pOll ring in of oC the time material a 1 compost composition tion con chiefly chicO of finely ground II gypsum mixed with an Inter Interlacing Interlacing lacing hemp fibre Obre water Is 15 I In time the mixing to reduce the pins pin plaster pinter ter tet to a thin creamy solution which is poured Into tho time mould and allowed to set for a period of about 15 1 minutes when the tho end and side sile gates gales of or time the machine are arc taken ta en off orr and the blocks removed d to a table where the wood cores are Ire driven out and the product I stacked for drying The rhe one important feature of oC Sulli Sullivan I Ivan van Is In the method of con COli constructing them Into Inlo a wall wali wherein they tho from any an form Corm of cut stone slone terra lerra cotta concrete blocks brick or other block material The regular blocks 32 Inches In length and 12 Inches high arc are made with semicircular Indented ends four per perpendicular air spaces and amid solid cen ecu centers tn In placing them In the tho wall vall the bottom tier IB is cd and amid scaled sealed at tangent tan ent onIs bv by b pouring the he same plus plas plastic I tic material of which they thc are Into Inlo the cavity cavit created by b time tho abutted Indented ends end thereby creating a abond bond honti that Is IB makes every eer Joint a solid The Tho additional tiers overlaid breaking joints at center conter and the same process followed out so BO tho the wall all when completed forms solid piers with In lI continuous air all spaces from I floor to ceiling requiring but a thin coat of whatever finish the work In hand mayi ma demand I I Sullivan blocks will nIll come como Into great brent greatest est cst demand in large buildings where when I absolute Is demanded but will also revolutionize time the building of oC and bungalows taking tho the place of brick or stone and permitting of artistic finishes to which the tho archi architecture architecture I te turc of or the times seem to tren Mr Ir Horn states slates that a number of the th latter hatter class of buildings are aro now DOW under contemplation for this city and anti tho time demand for the material will In the near future necessitate a plant de do decidedly larger than the one already es established s leli The first shipment from time the new ne factory factors was made malIc toda tOllay when whon a car carload carload load of C time the four and six Inch width blocks were sent to Malal lInin Idaho to tobo tolie bo lie installed as the fireproof encase encasement ment mont for a large larb vault vult In the county count court house In Iii course of con comi construction at that place This form of construction Is rapidly claiming the attention of oC prominent architects arch and builders all over the ito United States anti and Canada and It IL Is with some sonic gratification that Ogdon and anti Salt Lake should be the first cities In imi II which plants of this kind are In opera operation operation operation tion |