Show AND MITE GRANITE they are t to be found right here at your doors doom ODET CAI COMPETE wim THE TOLD WORLD soine some information upon these industries both as to the and the th market a alii blo ro the fact that these deposits of silica and ml clay within close proximity to ogden which was referred to by don maguire aguire AI in the chamber 0 of commerce a abort short time ago has attracted a food good deal of attention in the city and caused several beatle men nien to look into the subject with reference to the practicability of turning the same game to commercial seco account mr maguiro maguire elated stated to the chamber that between the mountains east of the city and west edge of the bench which the private dwelli dwellings rigs principally occupy there ar are a two I 1 qualities a lit ll 11 1 es of clay clauw occupy which lich 1 may he be used for tu r m a pottery lie also stated that there is a large deposit of silica in the hills bills or mountains mount alna east of the city without going into details air mr 1 maguire informed a STANDARD reporter that this clay is in it ano 0 layers each from 12 to 20 feet in thickness the upper stratum being the finer quality tha the silica he eaid paid is of such quality that the finest porcelain may be made from it lie ile considers this silica deposit the biggest in the west I hollowing op up the subject of what to do with these materials after thley are turned from their raw state into articles of use a STANDARD reporter fought sought information as to the marketable possibilities lie ile learned that east liverpool ohio would be the nearest competitor to ogden in the manufacture of porcelain ware that c city supplies more or less of the whole at united in slates states wi with ill the article A b business ts siness that would employ 1000 men ruen could easily be worked up tip if this is true another mattir investigated resulted in the statement that orden has granite as fine as exists in the tile country in great gr eat quantities omaha and other western V eat cities are as a now getting their supplies from vermont san francisco and other california cities are help bearg L supplied from montana and washington circumstances 0 o far fur as transportation is con concerned earned are largely in agdens favor spokane falls ships ship car loadis of granite weekly to san fraacisco it is hauled irom from spokane falls to beattle and then transferred to chips ships the southern pacific railroad Kail road company get no share of the profits of the business and they haul baul probably a third of thir freight cars westward from here empty their interest would be such as to practically r 11 C force them to make r rates tea from 1 ogden that would force trade to this point that road would have an advantage over iti its northern campeti com competitor peti in the matter of transferring from I 1 rom the cars to ships there is a aine mine of in his this in dustily that would employ hundreds of men and spread pread e the tame fame of oden ogden the facilities fur for getting out and loading granite on the cars at this point are unequaled at any other point A tramway could be constructed from the mountains to lie the railroad tracks and operated by water power even ev n the power for running running the drills at the quarry coald be supplied from water to i cs that all a man would have to d do 0 would be to furnish the tile brains fo for r carrying on the tile work |