The Lusk Herald, June 10, 1948

Gravel Firm Begins Operations This Week

The Rawhide Corporation, recently organized business which will process rock and gravel from a deposit one mile east and two and a half miles south of Lusk, began operations Monday and is now advertising various grades of products for sale.

Crushed rock for concrete aggregate, driveway chips, and road gravel are now available, and later as the demand arises, road chips will be produced. Concrete aggregate for the fair grounds buildings is one of the first jobs to be supplied.

All machinery has now been installed including a crusher, belt conveyor, bucket conveyor, dozer, engine, and arc welder, and it is estimated that he firm can now produce 80 tons of material a day.

Prichard Taylor, engineer graduate this spring from Texas A & M College and member of the firm, will arrive here next Tuesday to become actively engaged with the firm. At present Dick Mills, a member of the firm, and student in engineering, Henry Lewis on the dozer, Eldon Lewis, welder, and Kenneth Manring, trucks, are working in the pits.

The firm was organized in early April, through the efforts of A.H. Mills, Lusk postmaster, who owned part of the land on which the gravel is located, and D.M. Ferrebee, geologist and engineer. Since that time the firm has been securing equipment and making ready for operations.