Jasper County Democrat, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — CEMENT RESOURCES. [ARTICLE]

CEMENT RESOURCES.

Ths manufacture of cement is assuming a large Importance In the industries of Indiana. Two kinds of cement are manufactured—hydraulic or water rock cement, and Portland cement- The hydraulio cement industry is confined entirely to Clark county, which produces more than one-fourth of that product in the United States, , aftfr manufactured, tom rt r(& which occurs In K. Scott andfjMfefenrs counties. It own as the *WBver Creek hydraulic I Vstone,” after a creek by that nanv/ ] Clark county, where It is more exp* A (than elsewhere, and where the ceite; the Industry is located. There ire larger areas in Clark ebuntv JjknA the hydraulic limestone of Jenrlng j.nd Scott counties has never been wJritfA This hydraulic cement is largely -used in government construction works, such as improvements of rivers and harbors, and canals. The annual output Is about 2,000,000 barrels. The Portland cement manufacturing Industry Is of more recent introduction In this state, let, when the plants now under construction for the manufacture of Portland cement are producing the output will at once exceed the hydraulio product. There are now two large plants In Crawford county, at Mllltown and Marengo, whtci are crushing the pure oolite deposits there. Another p\ant on the oolttlo Ilmtstone belt is now under construction near Mitchell, which will have a capacity of 1.000 barrels per day. Through the oolttlo limestone belt In various points, but especially In Lawrence, Washington. Harrison and Crawford, there are extensive deposits of almost pure oolite eqtally as good as those already talqen up by the Mitchell and Marengo cot ipanles, which only await the necessary capital to manufacture Portland cem< jt. It has been suggested that the waste oolitic rock from the Bedford quarries < mid be utilized In the manufacture o this cement, but the drawback at 1 ’.at point Is the want of the proper cU m to mix with the carbonate of lime tc manufacture the product.