| Show PROSPECTS ARE sevier valley to be great plaster center mill expert becomes enthusiastic after seeing huge gypsum deposits near sigurd county will some day be one of the Norl worlds ds greatest plaster of paris pans centers this is the opinion of W J Eh bhrim rim an acknowledged authority luth onty on gypsum products mr air ehrsam vas in the city thursday ind conferred with a committee which hid had been appointed by the jumbo plaster cement company to take charge of the matter of instilling a of paris pans mill near the companas comp anys holdings east of sigurd lie ile made a trip to the property that afternoon in corn com piny pany p iny with some of the members member of the committee met with the committee that ci evening ening and went bent to salt lake city with some of the committeemen the following day where he entered into contract to erect the mill this mill is to be owned by the jumbo plaster cement company and the manufacturing concern which chagla hasa string siring of mills through throughout ot the western portion of the united states and canada will retain ro interest whatever in the concern the mill will have an initial capacity of one hundred tons and provision will be made in the plans for the installation of an additional kettle with accompanying equipment which will give it a total capacity of tons per day at ar present it is impossible to state when the mill will be ready for operation but it may be said that according to the terms of the contract the manufacturing concern will have sixty days in which to finish work on the machinery mr ehrsam will ill return to this city within the next net two months and look after the fulfillment of his companas comp anys end of the contract when he called on ue tae representatives of the jumbo company list last week mr ehrsam was on his way to the headquarters of his company at enterprise kans after he had arranged to instill install a mill in british columbia he was burh impressed impi essed by the local outlook and although it was evident that he is discreetly conservative in his it was vas also noticed that he could not conceal his enthusiasm 1 I 1 I have been looking for the greatest gypsa a deposit in the country said he be and I 1 think that I 1 have found it in this county counts I 1 may say at least that it is the greatest deposit that I 1 have seen sean and I 1 have seen many in my estimation there is enough gylum on the compari comp anys ls hold i inga to supply the N world orld for a century there is enrigh in the one ledge on which the company is now working to keep the mill running at a capacity of tons per day for the next twenty five years this valley will probably pro bibly be one of the worlds m greatest plaster centers the physical properties of the gypsum are good I 1 think it will make a firm solid plaster the expert did not all of the companas comp anys property in fact he saw two tino of the smaller ledges and t these hese convinced him that the kusum m deposit is s 1 birge irge enough to supply the world for a century the tuo dakes which hs be inspected are insignificant int in comparison NN ith the main dyki dyke in to which thea the merge this dyke forms the backbone bick bona of a continued ou on eighth page PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT continued from first puce page huge mountain which measures about six miles in its extreme length and is about three hundred feet wide at its base it is cut at right an angles acs bv a narrow bulley which makes it possible to form a cone conception eption in regard to its structure there was some question as to the pa possibility of marketing the product of the mill but fortunately the last doubt was put to flight by air Ehr sams fisit asit Itis it is said that the mills of the intermountain country have not been able to fill their orders some of them are now filling orders which they received three months ago and there ire indications that the demand is constantly increasing there are I 1 however many other uses to which gypsum is being devoted and new processes of treatment are being discovered disco ered one of these which bids fair to surpass plaster of paris pans in the matter of popularity is 13 ane manufacture of keene cement this ll 11 process icess has been thoroughly tested in europe notably in england but it is still looked upon as being a in the united states at present there are only two keene lement cement mills in this country one of which is located at medicine lodge kans and the other at acme N AT keene cement is used as a substitute for polished marble in some of the most costly buildings in the large cities one of its principal uses is in the construction of mop boards although its application is constantly being en tended it hns has a hard finish and bears a close resemblance to highly polished white italian marble the principal constituents of K iccone cene cement are gypsum and alum both are found in abundance in this county there are I birge irge alum deposits near the railroad about six si miles north of marsdale Mars vale and as m nearly marly arly as can be learned this alum has properties which adapt it to the manufacture of the cement A local company has located these alum deposits since mr ehr sams departure and it now controls approximately fifteen quartee sections of the valuable alu able owing to the miny many uses to which keene cement is being put it is at present impossible to foree a time when the demand will be circumscribed d the expert assured the promoters of the local companies that he would find a reada market for the product and advised them to lose no time in getting in on the ground floor mr ehrsam will nill inspect the keene cement plant at Medi ein lodge and will secure all the aai available lable data on oil the of the product he be he will attempt to interest the local company in the matter and it is probable that sevier county will have the third keene cement mill in the united states |
