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Show Production of Nitrate of Soda. The annual report of the Nitrate Association of Chile, which controls the world's supply of nitrate of soda, shows the production in 1902 to have been 2,982,622.80 pounds from seventy-eight works. The nitrate beds are near the purface and are worked as stone quarries. It Is anticipated that the immense amount of nitrate the United States now gets from Chile for use in fertilizers will ultimately ulti-mately be supplied by factories making mak-ing It by electrical process from the air, as is being done at Niagara Falls. |