Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 37 | Large Potash Deposit Found

LARGE POTASH DEPOSIT FOUND T Wyoming Discovery May lIay Result in iii Large Refinery and Production From Cheyenne Wyo ro comes tho the re report ro- ro re port that German potash will wi play an Important part In the tho peace negotiations negotiations tons has Jov proved d an empty empt bubble with the discovery and of ot development a lr large e field of ot potash In the hills his north of or Rock Springs Wyo Wo This rock contains from 10 to 64 54 per cent pure puro potash which will wi bo be refined reined as soon oon as an a n hugo huge refinery costing between between and has been completed at Green Grcen River Riv fly er or 0 Expert Exper Investigators In for tor the United States government have ha c placed the value of this potash at between two and four billions basing their valuation on the amount of potash contained container In the rock to a depth of twenty feet teet at tho the low lowest st recorded market price of uC potash In man many places experts declare that tho the potash bearing rock runs to a depth of ot between and OO feet reet end that the supply Is practically inexhaustible Realizing the tho value of ot this potash tho the government govern ment has withdrawn all al lands in the field from further entry or prospectIng prospect- prospect Ing German economists have declared that potash would be a n trump car card in inthe tho the peace negotiations Germany Is I not without knowle knowledge of ot tho the ge Wyoming Wyoming 0 Wyo Wyo- ming field because in 1914 when tho the war itar broke out a camp of tort forty chemIst chemIsts chemists chem chem- en engineers and scientists all al Hun reservists was disbanded d at Point of ot Rocks Wyo near the potash field These men ha hastily tJ returned to Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many but before their departure it I became known that surveys had ha haleen been leen made for tor railroads much preliminary work for tor the tho securing of ot tho the potash field for German Interests had been done cone and after their departure a a concealed con con- coaled laboratory was waH discovered wherein thc they ha had searched In vain for tor fora tora a process of oC refining reinIng the A It report to tho the reichstag b by the German Gorman government In JuI July to the effect that potash had been discovered discovered discovered dis dis- covered in Spain is I branded brande as propaganda ganda Janda because in October 1014 this thle mythical potash field was isas examined by engineers and found to bo be worth worth- I less IesI C S 5 Francis Randolph n lf Mayer er of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Chester Cheater Thompson of or Cheyanne Cheyenne Chey Chey- anne enne are pushing the tho development of ot the field Within a n short time pure potash will wJ be leaving leaving the tho plant and America will wil be independent of nil ni foreign sources of supply of or t this Js all all- 31 Important chemical nn and within a few tew months will wJ be in a n position to supply the world worle at lower prices than those Paid paltI betor J the he war