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Show BIS CEMENT PLANT IS BUSY Tho officers of tho Unic.n Portland Cement company of this city state that they have been exceptiont?lly fortunate for-tunate in keeping the full force of men at work during the extremely cold weather. The temperature at lho plan, which Is situated near Devil's Slide In eber can von. has ranged from a few degrees aSoze zero to ten below for the past two months, but notwithstanding that fact, tho company has not lost more than fifteen fif-teen days. At this time the company has 20Q men at work, and the plant Is producing pro-ducing daily about 2,200 barrels of cement. The employes of the company all I live Ht tho plant, there being comfort- able cottages for them, but they do I nearly all their trading In Ogden. A I handsome payroll Is expended each month and, withal, the cement busl-I busl-I ness In the canyon adds very materially materi-ally to the commercial progress of Ogden and Weber county. |