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Show Record Production Texas Gulf this week harvested har-vested the largest tonnage of salts from their evaporation ponds since the operations began early this spring, ac cording to General Manager Robert Curfman. There were 3,000 tons of salts taken from . the pond 5 on Tuesday with 1,070 tons of product derived. "This," said Mr. Curfman, "is the best we've dene since ws started back up and we are now getting nearer our goal of regular production of 1200 tons per day." Texas Gulf is scheduled to begin shipping ship-ping the potash to customers in July, Mr. Curfman said. Several carloads of potash from the new method of mining min-ing have been shipped, according ac-cording to Curfman. These, however, have been primarily primar-ily test loads to determine how the product will work. |