Show I UTAH SALT The Utah salt situation has not materially ma-terially changed in the past twelvemonths twelve-months Prices in most cases have remained c re-mained about stationary which means a marked advance over two years ago I in the crude grades used for stock feeding and chlorination purposes I About 1000 tons of crude solar salt has been marketed from Davis 1 county A small increase l fl Vis J noted j in Salt Lake county while contrary to expectations there has been no material Increase in the rock salt output in Juab and Se vler counties The plant of the Nebo Salt Manufacturing company at Sat Springs near Nephl has been idle all year This plant has been under lease to the socalled salt trust and was recently turned back to its owners who at once proceeded to make changes looking to an Increased capacity 1hi output by February is expected to be about twelve tons per clay of pan evaporated evap-orated table and dairy salt No crudo i saiL is produced rue Savior valley output of red rock salt Is from open cuts In the hills and as the title to these deposits rest with the Slate systematic sys-tematic mining has never been done Davis county has admirably situated places for salt making but it Is n question ques-tion if the output of lake salt from that section will be larger for the present Salt Lake county is the home of tho alleged trust and all their shipments are made from either Saltair or a point near there Their refinery Is located near Saltair pavilion I is a very complete one and has a icapacity In excess of the ability to market their Indicated capacity The market remains the same and the output of the State may be summarized sum-marized as follows Ton Refined salt IfMO Stock salt crude 10tO Stoce Ihf1O oar l salt for chlorination 15m ArtificIal lock salt r O Mined rock suit 30 I Total 3500 Tho situation can be said to be satisfactory sat-isfactory on the whole i < Tho projected Los Angeles and Sail Luke railway may bo a fattor later on SaIL on sale as well an salt from tie luanv known 1 deposits of southwestern Utah und southwestern Nevada may como I il competition with the local article with a line from southern California |