Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1922, Page 38

PAGE FOUR FACTORIES ADD LARGE SUM TO STATE OUTPUT ; | | ] All Industries Overshadowed by Huge Refinery Production but Small Plants Produce $13,000,000 Wyoming’s manufacturing industry is, with a few nota- ble exceptions, confined to small establishments employing each less than half a dozen people but the value of the com- bined outputs of these small into millions of dollars and, with that of the output of the larger manufacturing enterprises, during 1921 reached the of $13,000, The estimated total manufacturing preceding year, was L amounting, it is $2,000,000, a decreare « 7 light in view of the Stageering reverses sustained by the manufacturing industries of states where the tranformation of raw ma terials into finished products is an economic mainstay. Wyomtng’s manufactures include building plaster and the finer plasters, glass, tio, brick, cut ston, clothing. | coal gas, lumber products, machine | shop products, printed matter chem! cal disinfectants carbonated waters and other soft drinks, packing house products, cement building materials and pipe, electricity, art gooda, stock foods, dairy product, bakery products, confectionery, mill work, leather prod- ucts flourtng mills, alfalfa mills, sugar medicinal compounds, souvenirs and many others. Of! refinery products are not in this article considered as manu-} factory output. Natural Gas Possibilities Large. Rapid development of the natural g25 resources of the state is attracting increasing attention to the manufacur- ing possibilities of Wyoming and the feasibility here of securing cheap fuel will result in very great additions to the manufacturing Industry within the next few years—some of them within the coming year. Lovell, Basin, Cas per, Rawlins and other cities adja- cent to prolific gas fields and abundant sources of water and raw materials appear destined to becoine manufac- turing centers of more than mere re- gional importance, and many other lo- calities in the state will develop manu- facturing enterprises of perhaps less importance but sufficient in the aggre gate to make the manufacturing in- dustry eventuallly one of the chief sources of Wyoming commercial reve- nue. Among réverses experienced by Wyo- other domestic animal. » |ing the last year were notable ones ih establishments annually runs ming manufacturing enterprises dur- the*Big Horn basin gas region, where the manufacture of carbon black, the basic ingredient of printers ink and many other pigments, was rastri by legal li ms, and the only factory in the state, located at L led to shut dow er was ap- ‘pointed for the latter enterprise and foreclosure by creditors probably will precede a resumption of activity. Large quantities of tile and pipe Were manufactured in the state during the last year, both from clay and ce ment. The output of the plaster in stry was restricted by economic ditions but during the letter months of the year wns spect!ng up. Several million railroad ties and mine props were produced, chiefly in Lincoln, bon and Fremont counties. The two deet sugar factories in the state, ot Sheridan and Lovell, made virtually normal runs and output nearly’ 60,- 000,000 pounds. The dairy industry, whitch is spreading throughout the e MOUNTAIN OF ASBESTOS AWAITS DEVELOPMENT ADJOINING CASPER Manufacture Already Started on Small Scale and In- crease Is Assured When Full Benefits of Mammoth Deposit Are Realized BY FRED PATEE. The big deposit of asbestos on C: miles south of Casper, is said deposits in the world. Wycming, ada, and Russia arememed by the survey as being the locations deposit outcrops at the foot of the mountain, at the bottom of the CY canyon, where I have been mining it for the last ten years. This vein is Platnly traceable up to the heart of the property of the Wyoming Asbee- tos Producing company in sections 17, 18 and 20 in township 32, range 79 west on top of the mountain. George’ H. Healey, an engineer who was employed by the Johns-Manville company for 18 years, says that we have enough asbestos tn this one de posit to ship 1,000 cars every “ay for 150 years. And Dr. J. 8. Diller, chief geologist of the United Str.tes Gxo- logical survey, in asbesics de tment, says that “In opiming the at the foot of the mouitain we ve proved the: deposit to be 1,200 t deep,” and he adds, “There ts nothing to show that it is not 12,000 feet deep.” Starting at the ovtcrop in the CY canyon and running in @ southeaster- ly direction, the veln ts about four miles in length, and is not less than 3,000 feet wide at the widest part, in sections 17 and 18. Then {t tapers off and disappears in section 20. But it comes out again 16 or 17 miles fur. ther to southeast,on Smith creek, and that neighborhood there are merous outcrops and some very asbestos has been mined in this cality. It is very generally admitted by all mining engineers and geologists art fine lo- state, produced during tho year, thes figures being official, 1,854,000 pounds of butter, 1.200.000 pounds of cheese and 431,000 gallons of ice cream. More than 2,000,900 pounds of butter stock was exported during the year. The output of the flouring mills was almost normal. There was a large produc- tion of alfalfa meal and other stcck foods. With fow exceptions emailer manufacturing enterprises produced virtually normal outputs, The ele trical production increaed during the year, chiefly from evelopment cf hydro-electric projects. PROTECT FROM MOSQUITOES, IS REPORT Careful observations have been! made, in France, of the extent to which mosquitoes are attracted to do- mestic animals in preference to hu- man beings. It was proved experi-| mentally that mosquitoes have a strong predilection for the blood of ‘rabbits, stronger than for thet of any who have made examinations of this property on top of Carper mountain, and in the tmmediate neighborhood of Casper, that there must exist a very large Geposit of spinning fiber, and with the view of locating that body of ore, wo have kept a mining force continually at work on our property for the last two years. We are sure that we have located the exact post. tion of this lode and we expect to open the spinning fiber within the next year. Spinning fiber has been acliing during the war and up to the present time for around $2,500 per ton. A cublo yard will weigh about 2,500 pounds, so it will be seen at 2 glance that {f deposit of any sizo is opened up it will mean many thou- sunds of dollars and just Ike gold, it fs sold just as it is mined, without any refining operation of any kind or sort. Asbestos {s used in many ways that are not even suspected by the per- sons who handle and use it, for in- stance thers is the Pres.to-Lite tanks, containing acetylene gas. Who would PAVE YOUR STREETS AND ROADS WITH and the Wyoming deposit is right 142 CONCERNS [MINERAL RICHES ARE CLASSES |DEFY ESTIMATE AS UTILITIESOF ALL EXPERTS ‘There are 142 public utilities in i i i #8 i H i if i, He pe F | i | Barrels of Oil Before Resources Are PaaS ; points for asbestos a 6 on Casper mountain, eight fas a worid. i Exhausted; Coal Is Next point Province of Quebec, - United States Geological the three largest deposits, here at our very door. This suspect that each and every one ot the steel tanks, which you can see by the hundred around the shops, and on sides o” trucks that use Pres-to-Lite headlights, contain asbestos? eas is made from an acetone com- bined with hydrogen. This acetone is distilled from the turpentine that is made from the ong-leaved yellow Pine tree of Georgia, and the acetone is distilled from the turpentine In a distillery bullt for that purpose at Jacksonville, Fla. Acetone te a col- orless volatile Neuld that is very hard to hold, and {t was found that a tank could not be charjed with a suffi- cle:* amourt of #cetone to pay to ship funtil 2 was discovered that it could be charge’ usAer heavy pressure and held in place by firnt filling the tank with a mass of carefully combed as | bestos. . The fiberous mass of asbes- tos takes up the gas in such propor. tions that a tank will holt many many times the amount of gas by being thus first filled with, jasbestos, |and so a new market was discovered for asbestos, and thousands of tons of asbestos are now sold to the man- ufacturers of acetylene gas. For this use, only the finest quality cf asbes- tos can be used and the price for the quality needed has ranged during the last seven years from $250 per ton to $2,500 rer ton. Tho cheaper grades of asbestos are used in many different. commercial forms. We are using the asbestos serpentine rock here in Casper for chimney blocks, patents have been al lowed on these b.- the United States patent office at Washington, and many other patents are now pending for the use of this rock in asbest shingles and roofing tile. We are giv- ‘ng employment in Casper to from seven to nine men at this time, and when the shingle plant {s started this coming spring, this number will be increased to from 20 to 50. Negotia- tions are now pending for the ma- chinery for this plant, and one of the officers of the company {a now in the east interviewing the different man- ufacturers of the necessary machin ery, for the installation of a complete shingle plant, for the manufacture of asbestos shingles in Casper. The as bestos serpentine rock stands a much higher fire test than will the asbes tos fiber. It is no generally known. but this is a fact. Testa as hig’s as 5,262 degrees F. have failed to phase it, while manganese steel . which i “ : BY G. B. MORGAN. (Wyoming State Wyoming’s undeveloped natural resources are scarcely exceeded by those of any other state of the union and of thrse the mineral resources are by far the most striking. Esti- mates of the intrinsic value of our eee mineral resources would indeed be very crude and probably misleading, for in the present state of undevelopment there is no market for a great portion of our mineral deposits |arth, glass sand, grarite and other The coul measures of the state contain} building stones, graphite, roughly 1,078,620,000,000 short tons of workable coal. The royalty value of this In comprehensible amount of coal at 10 cents per ton is $107,862,010,000. It will be hundreds of years, however, before the bulk of this coal ts mined. With petroleum and gas !t is some- | what different. The ofl will be largely | exhausted in the United States inside jof 20 years and that is also probably true of the ofl ‘fields of Wyoming. In that time Wyoming will undoubtedly Produce 500 million and possibly 600 | million barrels of crude oll. The Salt Creek field tone appears to be good for 450,000,000 barrels. The gas fields of this state appoar to be practically inexhaustible, but of course they are not. They are capable of producing about 1,000,000,000,000 cubio feet of gas annually, while actual production }is only 1 per ceht of that amount Much of this gas contains a high gas- oline content. Ten to twelve million salions of casinghead gasoline are pro- luced yearly, and this can be multi- aiied many times if industrial utiliza- tion of the resultant dry gas can be obtained. | Another vast undeveloped source of rude ofl, gas and by-products is the oll shale. ‘The formation in which our nt whale 1s found covers approxi- imately 3,500 square miles of territory in southwestern Wyoming. Some of the Geposits are rich in of! and assay one barrel or more of ol! and consid- erable gas and some ammonium sul- phate to the ton of shalo. It was cst!- mated by the United States geological survey that the shale beds of north- western Colorado, which are similar to those of Wyoming, are capuble of producing 20 billion barrels of crude oth If that is the case, undoubtedly Wyoming shales are capable of pro- ducing at least one-half that amount, when we consider that the shale area in Colorado is only 1,900 square miles as compared to 3,500 square miles in Wyoming, although ‘Colorado shalea may be somewhat richer in oll The state has also many other rich and undeveloped mineral depoaits which fnclude those of tron, copper,| Microbes in connection with dis- gold, silver and other precious metals,|ense were first written about by a asbestos, asphalt, bentonite, clay, ce-|German scientist I the seventeenth ment__materials, epsomite, Fuller's! century. g i of i ? i : £ i § ot $ | ; i 5 z : i ‘ i Delaware has an average elevation of only 60 feet above sea level. Munically owned -___...__ Engin In the catalog of the mineral a: given above, there mutt be some thing of strong appeal to manuts turers and capitalists. For insta: why not use the gas and oll in Wyo- ming to smelt the fron ores that are now: being shipped to Colorado. An ‘Immense gas deposit in the I Creek ficld is located within forty miles of the great fron deposit of the Sunrise district. The use of gas o: oll fn smelting is practicable and. when the time comes that these fucis are exhaustive. we have wonderful water power possidilities along the Platte river tn the same district and our immense coal resources can by drawn on for fuel, although up to th» present time there has been little or no coking coal discovered in Wyo- ming. The ‘combination of natural Sas .with other raw materiale, such as clay for brick and tile and sand ginss, has already been worked in the industries at Lovell, Wyo., and it may be predicted with certainty that there will be many industries coming into this state within the next few years on account of our gas and other natural resources. Dolls and Animal Toys From Old Inner Tubes One day a New Orleans business man was looking at a pile of worn- out inner tubes, but he was thinking of bis baby and an {dea occurred t him, With a pair of scissors, a bot- tle of rubber cemert, and a pen and ink, he soon converted the old tubes and animals. The baby thought they were tho finest toys ho had ever seer, and all.the neighbors’ babies agreed with him. 3efore long ‘a small factory had to be built to sup- ply the demand for the rubber toys, and the designs were copyrighted. Peoria dub Dats Warrenite-Bitulithic Photcgraph ‘showing & section of the Lower Columbia River highway, showing roadway of reinforced bridge paved with two-inch Warrenite-Bitulithic, and the eighteen-foot road- way in background, which was paved with twoinch Werren!te-Bitullthic on four-inch compressed crushed stone base. The Columbia River Highway, a continuous stretch of 216 miles, either on crushed stone base or on is paved with bituminous concrete base. from Hood River to Astoria, Oregon, Warrenite-Bitulithic, The for- mer type of base was more largely used on this world-famous highway. The highway has been under the pavement is giving excellent satisfaction, any, expenditures for repairs to the pavement o' substantiating the Th traffic from two to seven years, ‘and ere has been little, if ver the entire 216 miles, claims we make for Warrenite-Bitulithic of dura- bility and low maintenance cost. 13% Miles Laid in Casper Without Any Cost to the Taxpayers for Maintenance | No City in the Northwest Has Any Heavier Traffic Than Casper. Warrenite-Bitulithic Has Stood the Test. Made in Casper, for Casper, by Warren Brothers Co. TWENTY-ONE YEARS’ EXPERIENCE WARREN BROTHERS Co. HEAD OFFICE: 9 CAMBRIDGE ST., BOSTON, MASS, DISTRICT OFFICES San Francisco, Cal.. Casper, Wyo. Portland, Ore. Phoenix, Ariz. ’ Salt Lake City, Utah Los Angeles, Cal. Vancouver, B: C. Billings, Mont.