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Visit Malad Idaho with us and see pumice factory, Welsh Festival
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June 28, 2019
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5:03Now PlayingMALAD — Underneath the big ‘M’ on the side of a mountain sits the quaint little town of Malad City.
It’s the first city you hit in eastern Idaho once you’ve crossed the Utah-Idaho border, and here you’ll find shops, old churches, the city park and one of the top pumice sources in the entire world.
Hess Pumice Products was founded by Marion Hess in 1958. He was working for the state of Idaho and one day, while driving a bulldozer in Oneida County, and he struck pumice.
“As he was digging away in the mountains making a road, a white material came out,” says Mike Hess, Marion’s great-grandson. “He grabbed a bucket of it, had it tested and found out that it was pumice.”
Marion quit his job with the state and built a pumice processing plant in the center of Malad. In 1981, he moved the company south of town to the Malad Business Park, where it remains in full operation today.
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