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Show ACTIVITY OF thecement plants; Concrete construction bas grown so extensively during the past decade that today the manufacture of cement Is among thu leading industries of the country, and the demand for ce-r ce-r ent Is a fairly pood Index to building operations. Since the erection of cement ce-ment plants inUtah and other parts of the western country they have been kept busy day and night supplying tne demand from contractors and builders. Manager Gilson of the Union Portland Port-land Cement company of this city and the Three Forks Cement company of Montana, states that the demand for cement this year has not been so great as It was last year, this meaning mean-ing as he, puts It, that there bas not been quite as much building. Manager Gilson states that the I lants have been running full blast, night and day, during the entire year, but that It has been quite easy to fill orders for c&ment, wul!e last year the plants were taxed beyond their capacity, many orders having to be held for a considerably length of time before they could be filled. Ogden bas kept veil up to its standard stand-ard of building, the dem.ind for cement ce-ment from Ogden contractors and builders having been equal to that of lust year, if not a little In excess. But Ogden is among the few Intcrmoun-taln Intcrmoun-taln cities that has equaled the building build-ing activity of last year The building build-ing permits issued this year will be in excess of thoso of last year and Vie amount expended in building will be a number of thousand dollars more this year than last year. Mr Gilson will make a trip to the Three Forks plant in Montana the f'rst of next month and likely will re-naih re-naih there until near Christmas time. He says the plant erected at Three Forks last winter at a eor.L of something some-thing over a million dollars, has been running constantly and has done a splendid business during the season. Manager Gilson has great faith in the future of Montana, but be Is Inclined In-clined to the Idea that, although Montana Mon-tana Is conceded to be a great mining state, the future greatness of tho state lies In its agricultural resources. He anticipates that withfa tho next few years large tracts of land that 1 eretofore have been used by large cattle and sheep interests for grazing rnrposcs will be placed under cultivation cul-tivation and Montana will become a great farm state. |
