Show Ir iIi I 4 c 5 5 C e le 5 1 t tm S SS SS Sa m S S S a S 5 a m I w dp 5 5 s 2 t il JS t S m p 5 S s S S I S 5 c p c S Sv v li liS S S ROW TH THE SAT SALT IS GATH GATHERED S c U TOO SALTY fOR OR CUffS Hie I iL UTAH SALT SAU BATS WORLD Utah salt was pronounce pronounced too E ty b by f a york th the past year year A further tribute to the purt purity and or of the Utah product was paid paid by the St Luis Iuis ex exposition position which awarded the Inland Crystal Salt company of Salt Lake the grand prize for salt lt The exhibit of Ut Utah salt at the fair was wan almost fortuitous The company did ilOt ot plan an exhibit but while Director Directo Gertral Gerral Whitaker of the Utah was at the lake col collecting spi samples s or of the water one day Superintendent W V H Jack or of the salt company car I tossed over a smal small sack of sal salt and some salt cr crystals wit with a remark to the effect that it might prove to some or of the fair visitors I It Interested among oth other othera er era the jur jury un on awards wih with the resul result that the grand prize was awarded to the the Uta Utah The New York jobber wile who pro pronounced flounced the ear ar of Uth Utah salt too salty in his letter Jetter that he meant just that The Utah product was wasso as asso so tree free from other than salt I tat that te the Ne New York chefs complained complained ot of I it They said aI that when they used an amount J f UtaI Utah saI salt eual equal to that usually employed they ruined the dish bY by making It it too salty and rather than learn their seasoning rules al all allover over agin again they ht preferred to dison discon discontinue the use of 01 Uth Utah sl salt The Crystal Salt company now ha has the feld field to itself the last competitor havin having withdrawn during the year The company company produced about tons during 1904 agin a gain or of about 10 pe per cent ent over ver 1903 The output Is about equally divIde divided between crude and refined sal salt lil In additon addition to supply lag ing almost the entre entire Utah feld field the company ships is its product to Idaho Montana Washington Wahington Oregon Cob Colo Colordo rdo rado Nevada and other western states As yet the eastern market has not been Invaded to Ut an appreciable extent al although although though ao 0 carload goes al almost almost most across tle countr country While the cost ost of harvesting the sal salt in Uta Utah i is somewhat higher than In oter other places the great density or of the Grat Great Salt lake water ater offsets in large degree the cost cost Te The per percentage percentage of salt In the lake water ranges from 18 18 pel per cent in te the spring to 22 per cent in August August The production ct of the crude salt Is Isa Isa a simple mator maer The water Is pumped front from the lae lake to a large pool where parta partial evaporation takes place and is then pumpe pumped into smaller maler pools where the the process of f evaporation is completed The he pumping continues until Augst August after which tl water is permitted to I dry out salt Is out le gathered by wheelbarrows md and shape shaped Into large ples piles These piles pIle cf sal salt are abut about SOx feet and 6 feet high The crude saI salt is Ed into car cars for ship shipment meat ment a am the Market demands it The Thesal sal salt on the outside of the pies piles soon hardens and forina f weatherproof coy cov ering for that in inside Ide The comp 11 refinery is located near the shor of the the lake The process of refining tue crude sl salt is almost identical wih with hat of converting wheat into four flour being sImply the application 1 of rUen rollers fans ans and other devices to remove the |