Show KEENE CEMENT ON THE COAST dealers pronounce it the best ever seen there an injustice is done the industry A letter from J al dilich dated at sin S in francisco tells of his success on the cort in pricing placing his keene ce cart rt dipti iab vie fie rem cement ait worl pr in that city ile he bid a ua ca loud jl if the cement shipped of hin him so that huud d ii iii e c it il on the grold grol roi d in ill quantity to submit to the people ho doal in that article one of the b g firms is the cili forni i art barule marule company 1 I heir workmen tried it out and pronounced it the best cement ever seen on the east coast r after tile the samples had been worked up op and the finished pro dult duct obtained the manager ot or the firm said to mr air bickel that the cement and oli workers of america owed the bickels 1 a I debt of gratitude for the splendid article of cement and for doing what no other american had dared to attempt the making of keene cement this gentleman said that they would not use another pound of the english cement as loni ionic as the bickel cement could be obtained this is vastly different from the report sent out in a local sheet last week when an item appeared saving sating that owing to alkali in the cement the work had to be suspended at the state bank As a matter of fact there is not lint a word of truth in ill that charge A chemical employed in the manufacture of the cement made itself apparent in the work at the bank because of the extreme thickness of the coat of cement and the heavy hard concrete wall on which the work is being done would not absorb the chemical the reported presence of alkali in the cement was an injustice to the industry just started and the com banys agents do not feel any too well about it |