Show SHORT OR T CROP CR o OF SALT SAL T TOWING OWING TO RAINFALL Only Tons Will ViII Be Lakes Harvest This Year as Com Corn Compared Compared pared with in Normal Years I Salt harvest this week 1 And unless the heavens above suddenly start to square themselves by raining salt there will be no little salt crystal d crosses cross s and things for the Utah state fair fall and the winter crop of ot tourists The Time salt beds bedR of the Inland Salt com corn company company pany which are those thos over oer which one traveled to Saltair this summer and which furnish the wherewith one sprin sprinkled sprinkled sprinkled kled ones hamand Sunday morning got enough salt in em Or else they had too much water one or the oth other other other er or perhaps better still on another try the said water was too fresh General Manager N W V Clayton Claton last night said that this year the salt crop ero would be only tons Tile The usual crop cropis cro croIs is tens The rainfall this year has had beep beel the thc heaviest the Mormons looked down from Emigration pass on the Great Salt Lake and he explained wh why this would fix the funny little sparkling crosses and amid why It would not shut off oft the salt Silt supply These do not at first appear obvious The salt beds of his company cover about 1000 acres which are cut into plats pints according to the elevation of the tite terrain and are approximately six feet above tile tie level of ot the laks lake Over this area water I is pumped from the lake at the rate of gallons a minute from May to Sep September September September It runs out ap aj a fast as It comes In but the salt In the water Is precipitated precipitated during the process to th bottom of the bed About a foot of water on the average is kept during the entire period over the precipitation for if iC it were all allowed to evaporate t leaving the tho salty bottom exposed the soda element would be b left in the salt alt That was the cause of vf the first prejudice against Utah salt saIto The Tho first process was simply that of evaporation tion tien The water of the tile lake is of 17 per cent density of brine per cent centis is the highest possible limit Below 17 per cent the water rapidly becomes become so deficient in saline elements that it re refuses refuses refuses fuses to yield a deposit in the Inland com corn i method In years ears of normal rainfall which is js practically nil between May and Septem September ber bar in Utah there Is I a IL precipitation l of from five fire to seven inches in the beds This year there will be only emily about three quarters of an Inch Hence the water in tife ponds is not strong enough to coat the sticks and things which have been placed in it to build themselves a salty jacket Luckily for the company com pan however al although although although though this of an Inch will only yield tons of salt snit there is a de deposit deposit deposit posit from former years ears on thE floor foor of the pond of almost fourteen Inches This has come from the fact that while the th normal production of th beds has been tons and the product is pure the consumption of the territory which the Utah company supplies is only tons The Time company serves the west from Se Seattle Seattle Seattie attle attie to Denver Salt Lake City itself uses only tons a year All An save 5 per cent of this production how however however ever comes from the Inland company The small percentage is imported salt pre preferred preferred erred by certain dairies which contend that the th Salt Lake sat Is in too large in its crystals to work wor Into the butter The territory of the Inland company c meets on the east that of the new and elaborate plant of the International Salt company compan salt trust at Hutch Huth Insop Kan Jall Mr Clayton Claton said last night nl ht that the price of his salt in Salt Sait Lake City is what he h van ran an get for it He believes in spite of the kick which Is being raised on the price of his as wel eK as other com commodities commodities modi ties in this city elty that that method of doing is just about universal His price is As regulated only by his nearest competition the mill at Hutchinson and by freight rates He admits that he sells salt here bere for and In Denver for but points to the fact that Denver is in inthe inthe inthe the direction of Hutchinson At that he says the profit Is not enormous even in normal years vears In a center such as w the great salt s lt center in Michigan where they supply a dependent population which requires tons per annum you can see that a profit of 25 2 cents a ton means something more than It does dot R where as is the case here It is isa Isa isa a matter only of tons We Ve have a monthly payroll all aU the jear re r around at atthe atthe atthe the beds and the refinery nearby of 1000 a month Nobody has ever made any money in the salt business in Salt Lake City Cit and a number have gone broke Mr Ia layton ton Is the vice president and general manager of the tho company Jo Joseph Joseph JoSEph seph his son Is the secretary and Jo Joseph Joseph seph F Smith is the HIP president They have advertised for laborers and hope he h e to start the harvest tomorrow |