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A company has been formed to manufacture the plaster, and 
mills are in the process of construction which will probably 
be in operation by the Ist of January, 1899, operated under the 
corporate name, ‘‘The American Cement Plaster Company.’’ 
The mills will be established at the mine, with a switch reach- 
ing the grounds from the Augusta branch of the Atchison, 
Topeka & Santa Fe railway. At present the head offices of the 
company are located at Lawrence, Kan. 
GEUDA SPRINGS DEPOSIT. 
About four miles northwest of Geuda Springs, in Sumner 
county, a large deposit of the rock gypsum has been known for 
nearly twenty years. It outcrops along the banks of a small 
stream on the west half of the southeast quarter of section 27, 
township 33 south, range 2 east. I*rom this place rock gypsum 
was obtained for the erection of a large business block in Well- 
ington, generally known as the ‘‘marble block.’’ Cut in the 
form of stone, it presents a beautiful appearance, so that the 
building is one of the handsomest in that part of the state. 
At the present time the surface covering of earth and soil has 
caved in to such an extent that it was impossible to determine 
the exact thickness of the gypsum beds. The local report is 
that they are known to be 15 feet thick, with a lack of knowl- 
edge regarding how much deeper they extend. The outcrop- 
ping is along a hillside, in most places so heavily covered with 
soil that the exact thickness of the deposit could not be deter- 
mined without a greater expenditure of labor than it was pos- 
sible to make while the field investigations were ijn progress. 
It is certain, however, that there is a large amount of gypsum 
in this part of the state. Different well drillers were inter- 
viewed, all of whom reported that in almost every well for some 
miles around gypsum was found with a thickness varying from 
2 to 5 or 6 feet. 
From the indications above given regarding the existence of 
gypsum throughout the state in the territory between Blue 
Rapids and Geuda Springs, it is probable that the Permian 
shales carry vast quantities of it which have not yet been dis- 
