Show MARBLE PLANT TO BE ERECTED sali i hijii f bickel and pancoast return meet with aith success on the coast sigurd plant will be commenced within 60 days J M bickel arid and clare pancoast Pin coast tao of the officers of the utah keenes canent company com piny returned recently from san francico franci co and other coast points where they had been promoting the interests of their company compi iny in the position of 0 the manufacture of gypsum marble the gentlemen had shipped 10 tons of gap urn uin rock to the coast for demonstration purposes and they spent much of their time in demonstrating that a J superior up elior grade crade of marble can be manufactured manufactured from ahe process of shaping the gypsum into any desired form the th immersion in t the e chemical bath and the changing of the soft gypsum into hard marble was shawn and the he colors to be had in this new decora ti ane e substance was a source of wonder an and interest to the men who handle interior decora decorative materials t iso SO did the coast marble men become that bickel and pancoast were urged to begin the erection of a I 1 plant for the production of their gypsum marble and mone foi fill this purpose could have been secured mr bickel feels that sevier county should have the first plant for the conversion of gudum into mirble marble m irble and he aued r the hn tm ancial aid offered for a san francico plant benen on 11 I 1 he lilt i t IR 11 tight apa art to 1 lr 1 la little itt acini 1 I 11 in ll big bull building dp projects the outlook for foi an ee ment in the financial tin ancial situation i is growing gro winE brighter and mr bickel e peeks that these large pro projects jeLtS which are now hanging for lack of funds will begin to move in about 30 dank this will vili bring about a reaction along all lines ind and times will br be better the keenes cement company expects to begin the erection of the a sid id I 1 li act ct p pl fur the tha mi m able ble industry at sigurd earla in september while mr bickel have secured all the financial aid necessary for the erection of a plant on the coast he thought sevier county was entitled to the first plant for the production of marble by the new process the present keenes cement plant while of some magnitude will be small compared com oared to the one where marble will be manufactured and upon which work is to commence at an early date the management 11 1 considering the best methods for quarry ing the bloks aloi Is of A of sawing out blocks block bv means of a wre wire saw driven dt at a inch high rate of speed will likely be installed the plant will ill be to hand all sizes of blocks slabs or columns from a pounds in eivet t to 0 ten tons there will he be nothing in the decorative building line too great or two small to pro protace prod dace jee it means much tor seier county in the way of hie I 1 he cost coast architects hive have been shown 1 ioan the advantages advant aires of the manufactured marble and it row remains for the eastern architects to be nade mad 0 acquainted with nith this modern decorative material when architects are shown the wonderful possibilities i cities of the gypsum marble it will b be e an aid to them in the color schemes of mansions ind and palaces such a thing as a genuine marble colod colo d in any desired hide hade should appeal to them not only in bul balding ding operate operations onh will this prove of value but in furnishings for homes tables drass ers soda fountain decoration ini fact the decorative uses of gypsum marble can only be faintly realized and all this lies at our dhori in sunny sevier at sigurd the first big plant will be erected and ere long cars of marble will be sent out of sevier to adorn the mansions of the rich throughout the nation |