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Show Editorial. SALT FLAT NEWS, JUNE, 1975 Page 3 THE UTAH CHAINSAW MASSACRE Rachael Canon had one explanation, but in Utah springtimes tend to be silent because the songbirds have no place to perch. That's because Utahns seem to have a peculiar fascination with the knife and the shears and the saw, but not, apparently, a great deal of know-hoin the art of In if fact, green things had legal recourse, the bulk pruning. of amateur tree surgeons in the state could be sued for malpractice. The current trend in cottonwoods is the classical style, or the Venus de Milo look. This is accomplished by amputating the tree's limbs at the shoulders, leaving an elegant stump that provides neither shade nor much joy to onlookers of the Joyce Kilmer ilk. Yet these tall, barren stumps seem to be much the rage in the Beehive State, and are much sought after. . Around Grantsville we often encounter a specimen known as the Lombardy Unpoplar. When our ancestors g in planted them as windbreaks, it was with our mind, since it takes many a growing season to produce these beautiful tall trees. Today they are decidedly out of fashion, however, and subjected to every, sort of torture, girdled and stripped of bark and set afire for such dubious crimes as attacking the pavement. Lastly, we have the stately conifer known as the Supine. The Supine is simply a pine tree or spruce that has been sawed off at the base and laid on its side. It's very popular around Christmastime, when a certain Salt Lake City newspaper appropriates one from hardy Heber Valley pioneer stock, drags it all the way to Salt Lake and stands it upright again with its trunk in a manhole. For a season the upright tree resembles a normal pine, sometimes fooling tourists who pause to remark upon the novelty of a big live tree growing out of a manhole on Main Street. But come the first wind, the Supine readily resumes its horizontal position, putting an end not only to songbirds but sometimes to carollers as well. The official tree of the state is the Blue Spruce, but heres wondering if it shouldn't be the Ash, since that's what we seem to be making of ourselves. Or how about the Nevergreen State? w well-bein- . ' . . him to send you the negatives and a sample print of my aerial photo montages of die Flats. The source and reference data are on the backs of the sample prints. They' are to the same scale and comparative density, in the lab' with no hanky-pank-y show their Cottonwoods in Utah: off leafy finery Springtime to make a point I sent a form letter to several legislators and journalists informing' diem of the recent UGMS Report 91 and its conclusions with no more response Dear Editor: Mountain Thunder and your, forthcoming than if I threw a of his mission and the rock in the ocean, except for Bet someooe had a lot of fun write-uIn for chemical formula the mystery of it all Lets have Deke Houlgates article in AutopUng more stories of this type. Also week of Jan. 17. Around here Telluride ore and calling it in the solar mining article. about Death Valley Scotty, everyone erupts in a panic on enWonder how many miners and ghost towns, IncBan petroglyphs, vironmental and conservation old salts will pick it up. rockhounding, and other sub- issue;; the legislative and execulike jects of interest to be found in tive inertia in Utah is truly amazAnyhow, the paper looks the states of Nevada and Utah. ing. lots of fun. Please include me h I suppose that part of the Enclosed is my check for three Homer F. Rewis, problem is that the Salt Flats are dollars. Clearfield, Utah, v used for racing and dare we P.S. I hear that a feller pins a say the word hotrodding by Gilbert P. AUsebrook, museum' that has all kinds of non-LD- S juvenile delinquents Grantsville, Utah Winne-muccfrom Los. Angeles, the Sodom bones in a place called P.S. A second look at above right in the heart of the and Gomorrah of our times. different when chemistry and I realize we are Puite Indian country of Nevada. Things were g Ab was out both nuts. (Auj Ag)Te2 is Syl-vit-e Good luck, and lets see what saintly, there, or maybe some ennobled (Telluride ore) alt right, but you can dig up. British aristocrats. it would not be found in an Lots of luck with the1 BLM. I evaporate. What was meant was Hey you guys: have dealt with that outfit proSylvite (KC1), which is theevap-orat- e Here's We like fessionally when employed by your paper. mineral more commonly for a Mils three year's subscrip- an oil company, and though called Potassium Chloride. tion. they are honest enough, they are predisposed in favor of extracSirs: Larry Jablon, tive industries, just as the FAA is Williamsport, Pa. biased in favor of the airlines vs. of ricked a I your up copy the public and general aviation. Salt Flat News here at the. coun- The old fraternity business. try store at Hill Air Force Base. I Dear Editor: We Out of Are Please send me a copy or two enam I much that so Running liked it (re: what you publish; Ill even of a for year's Salt?) closing three dollars colcalled I subscribe, although as I recall, I my Yesterday subscription. didnt get all my issues the last I was taken bn your front league Ed Harding (current presiMPH asked and time I did so. Look for me at the 200 dent Chief Club) Rolling page photo of Salt in August, where Ill try to set an international record for unsupercharged cars with my Chevy-powere- d twin tank streamliner. - Cheers, Mark Dees 910 Tenth St Apt 206 Santa Monica, California 90403 LEWIES TOTO! mfiTM Dear Mr. Goldberger: p Syl-vani- te - T, a, : God-fearin- . -- . mineral not a solution. The source of this reference is a mystery to us. In the following paragraph your description of the four baric steps of solar mining is incorrect in that it equates collection'' with" harvesting when the two are not synonymous. In the final paragraph of this column you seem to reach the conclusion that magnesium chloride and sodium chloride production is high because 6 or 7 inches' are precipitated annually. This is not necessarily correct and seems to us rather xi fusing. At the top of. the final column you indicated that we sell brine to Utah Salt when, in fact, it purchases salt from us. r In the following paragraph the article states that brine is collected from the northern portion of the Salt Flats." This read with considerable interest the article Solar Mining on the Salt Flats'' which describes our Bonneville operations in your May 1975 issue. While we admire your courage in attempting to translate a technical document into everyday language without checking your story with the source of the report, Fm afraid the result was a number of errors and confusions which should be corrected in the interest of accuracy. ' Midway through, the third column of your article you make seems to us misleading since the the first of several references to major portion of our collection ditches are located south of Insyhranite (Au, Ag)Te2 in exmuriterstate 80 and essentially on the plaining the production of ate of potash. This should have southern half of the Salt Flats. been sylvinite a physical mixWe understand and appreciate ture of sylvite (KC1) and halite your interest in providing infor(NaCl). As written your article mation on this subject to readers suggests that we are processing a of the Salt Flat News, Mr. Goldtelluride .of gold and silver and berger. However, we suggest that ' coming up with muriate of they would be better served in potash. While that would be a the future if you permitted us to pretty good trick, it sounds like review for accuracy any technia fairly expensive way to pro- cal material of this nature prior duce potash. to its publication. In the same paragraph you Sincerely, write that material is loaded into trucks' for transportation Gary Simpson, Manager to the milL No trucks are used in Corporate Public Relations, Kaiser Aluminum and this procedure. In the next column your arti Chemical Corporation We . cle refers to a solution which is 35 camallite." Camallite is a |