Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1914 — HEW INDUSTRY IN THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

HEW INDUSTRY IN THE WEST.

WpemlM to Have Flret Azbeotoz Mills Wwt of the Alleghanieo. ' Casper, Wym, to in the midst of an •abeataaboom. Accustomed for years to the sheep aad wool industry, upon Which the chief wealth at the com* muplty baa rested, the town to now enthmrtaattoklly concerning itself with a different kind of wool—that pecu* liar aort of mineral fiber which nature has deposited at rare Intervals in the seams of rocks called serpentine. Borne of the wealthiest citizens of the town bay* caught on to the enthusiasm and are putting their money Into the development es a resource which, in the mineral world, most nearly resembles the product 'of the sheep elip. What the wool of the sheep does for the human body, the wool of the serpentine rocks does for the steam pipe and the heat conduit of furnaces—it keeps the caloric from escaping. Asbestos, as its Greek name indicates, is indestructible except at very high heat, such as is never reached outside of a laboratory. The market for asbestos is said to be limitless—at least, far beyond the limits es the present supply.