Show 36501266662000 That is the Amount of Money i the Great Salt Lake RICHER THAN THE C3MSTOCK LODEing All the Dlflicnltles of Treatlne this Sat Have Been Met and Chemical Vi orks Are to be Built t H Hirsching consulting chemist and mining engineer appeared before the real engneer rea I estate exchange meeting last evening and made public certain facts and discoveries in regard to the chemical and commercial values of the deposits salt in the great lake that are not only startling but bewildering be-wildering in their possibilities Our mottosaid heshould not be mining min-ing but salt I Talk about Consolidated Virginia mine you have our Consolidated Comstock at our doors I is only a qucs of time until our citizens will say it is a good salt day or a bad wet day as the weather is cloudy or clear Having lately heard so much about starting up some enterprises I have the honor t lay before your honorable mem bers a suggestion for your careful consideration consid-eration continued Prof Hirsching It is well known that chemical industries indus-tries in the western country are in their infancy audit certainly wouldbe strange i we were to remain bund to them when there are such vast resources at hand awaiting transformation into valuable chemical products thus making our city a great and rich manufacturing metropolis The soda industry is according to my judgment judg-ment the basis of a great many otber industries in-dustries such as glassmaking the manufacture manu-facture of soap the extraction of silver and gold from their ores etc Richly laden with raw chemical materials mate-rials is the Great Salt Lake with its many salts I truly believe these salts ought to bo refined and chemically treated I have in view one of these salts prepared by nature which will cheapen the cost of the production of soda and its kindred compounds materially over any other known process Thousands of tons of this salt are expelled in the cold winter season and driven to the shores of the lake About six thousand tons have been gathered during the winter of 87 and 8 at a nominally nomin-ally low price An experimental plant has been erected to convert this into soda ash caustic soda sal soda and hyposuephite of soda The greatest difficulty encountered en-countered was the cheap expulsion of the water of crystalization in this salt After long and tedious researches a process was found and a plant of fifteen tons capacity was constructed con-structed The details of this process can be explained and seen by going to the chemical works at North Salt Lake All the difficulties of treating this salt have been overcome and practicability of the process clearly demonstrated I requires money to get possession of the works and reconsruct the same I am satisfied that the investment of money in this enterprise will pay a sure and large percentage and I therefore suggest that we communicate with the owners of the chemical works and see if any arrangements can be made Incase In-case they refuse to make proper conditions I suggest that we build new works and in connection glass works as well Estimating that Great Salt Lake has an average depth of ten feet it contains 6257 360000000 cubic feet of water This would give 312S6800000 tons of salt I in six tons of salt there are 77 of soda ash it would equal 002 tons at 1 profit it would give the enormous sum of 5305012606620 All thatis needed is to erect chemical works which produce the soda that is used in the manufacture of soap and glass Prof Hirsching stated that the cost of a plant to turn out twenty tons aday would be 40000 and that as soon as this could bo demonstrated there would be no trouble in getting outside capital to increase the works to a capacity of 200 tons daily With soda ash you could manufacture all theglass for this western country A member asked for the explanation of the failure of the old works I am sorry to say said Prof Hirsch ing that at the beginning of my work I was only parially informed of the many different salts contained in this water There are sodium bromide borax and crystal water altogether fifteen different salts of which no chemist living had a perfect per-fect knowledge There was jealousy in the old company and as soon as they thought they knew something about it they thought they could get along without a chemist The trouble got deeper and deeper and as Iwas getting no salary and was tired of the dissensions dis-sensions I got out Soda ash went up to 90 per ton in New York and I can produce it her for less than 20 and if the works are increased to a larger capacity at 515 per ton We can get 510 a ton from the glass works Judge Lynch explained a little matter about the formation that was interesting in this connection Sulphate of sodium and crystal of salt are formed at different temperatures tem-peratures It only crystalizes below the freezing point and is found at the poles and floats over the surface and is blown to the shore by the breezes ahd is found in deposits de-posits as it is on our own Great Salt lake Chloride of sodium our table salt is formed at high temperature by evapora tion tionThe The matter was referred to a committee of chemists consisting of Messrs Lynch oV Volckler Bishop Denman and Conkling The Gresseli chemical company which has 3000000 invested in chemical works at Cleveland Cincinnati andBradford Pas i Pa-s going to send its secretary to this city to examine Prof Hcrschings process of re lining A Chicago Man Likes Salt Lake Lloyd Talbot Dorsey who belongs to the literary cult of Chicago and is a contributor contrib-utor to the literary and dramatic reviews of the daily journals of that city was introduced in-troduced to THE HERALD reporter by George H Tousey who also hails from the city of 92 I like your city very much said Mr Dorsey I had friends and acquaintances ac-quaintances at Ogden but after looking over the field there concluded to try Salt Lake as I think the chances are far better for immediate returns Being asked what features of the city impressed him most he replied The first feature I observed was a big cloud of dust but I am glad to see that is to be obviated But the progressive spirit of the people td make a city of the natural resources at hand was what led ma to invest Mr Dorsey is a cousin of J H Bacon of the Bank of Salt Lake and will remain with us until autumn |