Show GREAT mm ALUNITE MILL SOON TO BE COMPLETE piute diute chieftain notes the rapid construction of immense alunite plant the editor of the chieftain made a special trip to the florence mining milling companas Comp anys mill site thi this week the change in landscape made by two weeks work is marvelous A P obrien engineer in charge with M F murray local manager and an efficient force have haag replaced a stretch of eighteen hundred feet of fla nags gsand and bull rushes along the marsh at the foot of the bench land with a substantial gravel railroad grade which will connect the new mill with the end of the denyer rio grande track A splendid wagon road has been constructed around the foot of the hill from johnny lees place to the lower floor of the mill with a branch leading up ud one of the hollows to the top of the bench at the mill site itself the change is still more startling the hillside has been scored away to make place fa for the mill foundations forms for the various foundations have appeared as if by magic and a continuous stream of concrete is pour ing mg into them to form the basis on which the various pieces of machinery will rest the lumber for forms and buildings is being hauled from the com banys saw mill in cottonwood canyon heavy timbers of the frame work of the buildings are going up rapidly everything about the plant is being rushed at high speed but with a thoroughness that shows careful preparation and a high order of ability at the present rate of progress it will not be long before the wonderful alunite deposits of the florence company will be transformed for in the new plant into food fd the farms of the southern toto coto 0 tont Belt R e lt and incidentally be bring ingi 0 of the company rich returns for the money and energy spent in developing their rich domain W A fitzpatrick of philadelphia secretary of the florence company and J S R chamberlain president of the Ca raleigh phosphate fertilizer works of raleigh N C and many other southern industries are here to look over the situation at mine ame mme and mill bothof both of them are enthusiastic over tle the progress being made they express themselves in in hearty accord with the local management in giving preferences to local labor and local b business business houses this policy of the florence company is greatly appreciated by marysvale Marys vale people for many years it has kept its work going when most other properties were idle its mill is located within the corporate limits of the town adf and while its officers and stockholders are in in east they have shown themselves so thoroughly in sympathy with the local people in their efforts to exploit the wonderful resources of this region that the florence company is is looked upon here as a purely local institution c |