Show T TO PRODUCE SAL SALT FROM BLAIR BES BEDS Citizens Form CoOperative Operative C Company to Utilize Vast Salt Deposit Deposit Plans Plan recently formulated to delop develop the enormous deposit of salt I in the lake bed at the foot fot of Silver Peak Pek near ner Blair Blai Nev Ney have hae crystallized into 1 definite defnie form according to the Blair Press Pre A number of leading citizens I have determined to engage in the busi business ness noes ne of manufacturing pure p re salt sl for forthe forthe forthe the market through the medium of f a association which ia la to be I strictly strIct mutual With that object In view have lav formed ed the Silver r Peak Pok Pe i Salt Sl Producers association 06 0 I operative body boy composed of ot fifty fity meat mem mea members I bars bers bJ with wih provisions for increasing I Ithe the number to 25 if I deemed desirable Several years year ago the United Unie States geological survey in describing the Silver Siver Peak Pek quadrangle directed at attention attention tenton to the economical Importance of these vast deposits of sl which occur in huge and irregularly shaped sipe masses termed playas The Te survey surey observed by analysis that this salt s t was 99 per cent pure chloride of ot sodium Or common salt which degree of purity is by b any similar deposit on the continent save one one which is in a remote and ad ald inaccessible region In San Bernardino county Cal Heretofore H operations In those thoe salt 81 deposits have been be carried on Jn In n a desultory manner a few ton t g been harvested occasionally But since sin o othe the completion of the Silver Siver Peak rail railroad railroad road transportation facilities are such that with improved Improve methods of eco economical economical economical manufacture the salt can cn be produced and distributed to consumers to good advantage |