Show EXTENSIVE PHOSPHATE LIME BEDS largest deposit in the world near ida sapt I 1 few people in the intermountain country know that one of the most extensive lime phosphate beds la the world Is just now being opened in the hills adjacent to the deposit Is only a couple of miles from this city and it has been known to exist there for the past thirty years but everyone here thought it was a coal outcrop and much work has been done on the deposit with that belief in niland two years ago charles jones a mining engineer of salt lake was in this section looking over bome other prospects when his attention was callaci to the black belt as it h known to everyone hereabouts aft made an examination and found that it was a lime phosphate proposition and from the work done while looking tor coal he found the deposit was the most extensive he had ever seen or hoard of anywhere immediately locations were made and further development work undertaken the result to date Is that the bed has been traced tor thirty or forty miles down into utah and over into wyoming in fact there seema to be no end to it and the quality Is of the very highest grade the largest amount so tar found and also the best s within the limits of city unfortunately tuna tely however the claims close to ihl city arc tied up in litigation the point of difference being whether the deposit should be taken up as placer next federal court or quartz and the at pocatello will be asked to decide the contention when this matter Is disposed of the deposits will be developed on an extensive scale no matter which way the suit goes as both claimants are heavy moneyed men one outfit being california capitalists and the other representing english capital the fields were recently looked over by an extensive operator of phosphate beds in tennessee and he pronounced them the finest and largest in the world and he further said that it a reasonable rate could be had on the railroads for shipping the product the deposits would become the of great activity in very short time there is said to be a large and constantly growing demand for this sort of fertilizer all over the wheat belts of the union the people are greatly interested in the new venture and all hope the legal entanglements entangle ments in which the fields are now enmeshed will be speedily unraveled and that development work will start soon on a large scale |