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Show at back of oven, looking at fire brick these are sample rooms- finished product ovens were here there is fire brick compartments wi trays- big ovens round holes [in wall] used to even out the heat machinery used to be hung here- Allminerals opened this door up- orig was just small door. another room next to this.- off limits to Bill Another set of ovens- this would be logical location in opened up area Don Challisbuilding modular homes here - he opened all this stuff up he didn't like big concrete slabs so he got dynamite and blew them out, we got in trouble for that put holes in roof too Winger dynamited that out he leased or rented thisMaybe Winger & Challis did dynamite together Put dynamite under concrete and concrete went thru roof of the house over there (south end- asay rooml sample room) this are has been opened up by ?---conveyor belt thru here doorway on west side- SW side orig was not opened up Cylde worked for Holladay Lumber- 60s 70s 80s stored lumber here Clyde opened up the door Own Power plant for Mill? Clyde knows about power. there is a substation located across tracks on west side Murray city didn't have enough power to run mill so Utah Power provided [Bennion Mill 1984-95 had own elec] this mill may have had elec before 1900- little private power plants all over the valley Murray City bought Progress Company from JP Cahoon who started it Large door in nice shape 7.5 X 5 feet East Side New Section Of Mill, RR scale would have been here on South end is where RR cars dropped into the hopper loading part- platform, ore dropped into rail cars. cars come in from S to North, dump them at south end, would clean them out really good, wash them, wi air hose. Put burlap sacks around each door then start filling, as they filled used hand track, then after filled would weigh it, log it in, shoot it down to N end, and back on to main line or on to smalter Clyde worked here 6 yrs- 1952-1958 "crusher operator" when mill man was sick, he ran mill. union Joe Gunderson worked in bucking room- more than 6 years, he read bible all day long JONES FARM??????? Elmer Jones lives on 5300 South. worked in Mill all his life- ???started in 1945????? He was Bill's boss Elmer's brothers Ward & Paul worked here too- Paul worked here until mill closed down |
