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Show - POTASH BEDS OF BEAVER COUNTY Beaver county owniTH of potash claims, of whom there are several, will be intt!ratid In the following item rngHrding the grear demand for Huch product. Paul Kimball ha; such a holding, and no have E. Fouts and others. It In quite probable that the potash buslnes of this county may yet develop Into something of considerable value. The item from a Salt Lake mining journal is as follows fol-lows : "Why l"tali Produce Potifsh "The InHplration for developing th.e potash beds of Utah Increases as prices of potash salts leap from one high pinnacle to another. Defore the European war started prices ruled on the basis of MO per ton and there has been an ascension gradually until un-til the quotation is now $520 a ton. "Until the deposits in Germany are reopened no likelihood exists of prices descending In the world's potash pot-ash market, although should peace arrive without a protective tariff on this mineral the trade knows that importations im-portations from Germany would quickly send down the prices. Until the European conflict prohibited pro-hibited importations American capital capi-tal had steadily refused to consider propositions looking the development develop-ment of a domestic supply of potash, pot-ash, declaring, "we can get all we j need from the Germans. This depoiidy.'.ce on foreigners fur j an Important American necessity j tuught the li'Mson of its error to owners own-ers of dozens of institutions in the United Slates who could not operate oper-ate without potash. j Their participation in the crea- tlon of the rapidly growing potash industry in this state therefore was forced upon them, and their dilemma dil-emma of personal and corporation necessity has resulted in the investment invest-ment of several millions of dollars in the vicinity of Marysvale within the last two years as a means to relieving re-lieving themselves from an embar-rasment embar-rasment In business out of which there was no other route. ! Now the road is open to deliver-',ance deliver-',ance in the United States from Ger- man potash domination and it is expected to remain open and well traveled in the future, j Mugnateti investing capital in this industry are expecting to insist that I Congress impose an import duty suf-j suf-j ficlent to protect their investment j in potash production at as early a j time as possible. i And with the gigantic potash resources re-sources around Marysvale so far practically untouched, and other deposits de-posits of this mineral said to exist In other parts of the state but as yet undeveloped, this industry promises prom-ises to assume extremely large proportions pro-portions and attract many more millions mil-lions of dollars to this commonwealth common-wealth for carrying the potashmak- j ing industry into yet greater pro- portions. |