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Show TIE KEH PRODUCTS j ! UNUFflCTIl CO. j I IMPORTANT IBSW: Mineralized Soil of Utah to be! ! Turned Into Chemicals, In- j eluding Soaps, Paints, Etc. j j With the birth of the Kcm Products' i Manufacturing company. Utah be jcome. the mother of another great in ! dustry. It Is not too much to pre-j'dict. pre-j'dict. according to the optimistic stato-l m3nts of tho incorporators, that tho j chemicals produced from the mineralized mineral-ized soil of Utah will eventually penetrate pene-trate to every home in lhe" union, ' bringing new fnme and wealth to tho state. j I lhe Kern Products Manufacturing I company has just been organized. I Within a short time they will be going ' at full stride with soaps, paints and! chemical compounds of new and t tart-, ling effectiveness. They are byjn?; I plans along comprehensive lines that' will help make thorn one or the very! largest manufacturing chemists con-i perns and soap factories in the west. iTheir new chemical soap, made with-out with-out fats, promises to revolutionize laundry methods not only In the inter-.1 inter-.1 mountain country but al over the, , United States. The supply of the raw product is unlimited because it 1c tak-. tak-. en from certain peculiar salts from , the vast deposits in old lake beds of . Utah. The process of making the . now nrlicle is Inexpensive but the cf fectivenoss of the new soup pate is . so great that present,day methods of . large laundries will be entirely upset. Since the modern large laundry uses soap by the ton and the carload, tho , importance of the ne,w cleaning agent , may be faintly realized. ; The new Industry has fallen to the lot of Salt Lake where It originated . and the company has taken over the ( largo building of tho old Globe laundrv . at 'i'l East Eighth South. The building . is now being remodeled to allow- -10,-, 000 square feet of floor space and ac-. ac-. tual preparation of products hus al-, al-, ready begun oven as the alterations are under way. Machinerv Is being . rapidly installed including p'aint grind-. grind-. crs and mixers and foiir large soap mixing units. Fifty thousand dollars worth of equipment will go into theji plant and tho twenty employes will bdi1 increased to 100 as scon as the selling l force has organized the territory. -1 The entire plant is the outgrowth j: of ihe gtnius for chemistry possessed 1 by Dr. E. Wardrop, who has invented i most of the compounds and processes ' 1 lo be used and who acts as general 1 manager for the company. Dr. Ward- 1 rop has been 'a manufacturing chem ; ist lor many years and has evolved " several 'formulas and that are revolutionary' revolu-tionary' in character. He has a corps pi very efficient assistants, ana al--ithough he has heretofore worked on a I '. very small scale he swept away all 1 competition and won the grand prize for his extraordinary products at the last state fair. Tr.e making of soap paste which is a 1 secret compound or soluble earths andj1 sal's, liquid soap and bar soap, the latter to carry vegetable oils, will bc-j the biggest part or the business, al-1 though the making of paints will be an important branch. There nre to beh almost a score of other products, many ! of which have been introduced lo the'1 trade in a small way. among them be-1 ing metal polishes and cleaners, autoji top dressing, synthetic oils and tur-j' pentine substitutes. h "We have processes that are new, and unique," said Dr. Wardrop. in out-1 1 lining the plans of the company, "andji we expect to fill an unusual demand.'! The cost of soap Tats lias reached ai point where our chemical soap will fill' a decided economic want. Taking our ; ra v products right from the ground wo 1 can ship the soap by carload lots to' eastern centers and sell a better soap at t lower price than they can manu facure there. 1 "We have also perrectetl a wonderful wonder-ful cleaner along the lines of Dutch cleanser that is even better than thai muchadvertised article and Kern E Z me'.al polish Is tlio best metal polish on the market. In addition we will mal-e paints and dyes of a' superior' quality." ! The full list of products includes , washing powders,, scouring powders.' cleanser, liquid soap, scouring soap.i paste soap in cans and barrels, aulo so.ip in tubes, roof paints, powdered, paints, metal polish, carbo gas. turpelj and linal. which, are subs'titutc. fori turpentine and linseed oil. The EZ' m-9al polish has been manufactured! here for some time and has been distributed dis-tributed extensively by the Z. C. M. I. I through the Intermountain country. The new concern is a closed corpora-1 Hon backed by a small group of Salt) Lake capitalists who are amply abl to linance the complete equipment of, the factory. They aro organizing an extensive soiling force which will can- vase the whole interniounlain ccuntri i thoroughly and send representatives to ( the east and to the Pacific coast. Theyj also plan a wide advertising campaign which will carry the names of their, product for and wide. They promise; to become live members of Utnh'sj new Industrial family and expect to bo! i turning out thousands of dollars worth' I of r.roducts within a short time. j |