Show utah alunite to be developed deposit af alunite at marysvale Marys vale will be developed as soon as the mineral products company can obtain right of way for the tram road from marysvale Marys vale to the deposits on the side aide of edna crater according to H H macdowell vice president of the company and president of the american fertilizer company which is the product byproduct by works of armour co who is at the hotel utah after an extensive survey of the properties at marysvale Marys vale he was reticent at al first to talk of the development which is going on in the southern part of the state regarding potash but he asserted that the residents of the state should be placed on the right track regarding the extent of the deposits and the uses to which they can be put the mineral products company is capitalized at it has already expended more than in research work on the potash deposits the potash runs from 11 to 13 per cent of the deposits and the remainder is which when separated into its component elements produces aluminum sells at a ton in arkansas and at about 3 a ton in france mr macdowell says that the trouble has been to separate the to get the alus minum and the other minerals Is side line the mineral products company is primarily after the potash said mr macdowell the is a side line there have been some extravagant statements made concerning the potash deposits ot utah I 1 have read statements which alleged lebed that the deposits were of sufficient size to supply the entire united states with potash 1 nothing could be farther from the truth the potash will supply a great demand but not all of it the marysvale Marys vale deposits are a high grade of sulphate potash and can be used to great advantage in fertilizer works and in manufacturing ammunition and explosives the mineral known as alunite contains from 11 to 13 per cent potash and when it is extracted we have which when separated into its bases produces aluminum we spent more vian than in research work to find out how to separate the potash and the aluminum we have owned the properties for years and now that we have solved the research problem we are ready to go ahead the company is not yet satisfied whether to build its reduction works at marysvale Marys vale or at a point close to salt lake whether it would cost we are figuring on less to haul the alunite here or the coal to marysvale Marys vale the reduction works will use a lot of coal and coke and we intend to save the products byproducts by of the coal and get the ammonia the tar and the gas the aluminum we have li ve not decided on but we know what we will do with the potash potash at this time is in great demand we control the market and it is now selling at a ton the du pont font powder company is sending throughout the country buying sacks of potash from the farmers to use in the manufacturing fac turing of powder and explosives it is used mainly in the manufacture of grecus sion caps the germans have the greatest mines of potash in the world and the utah deposits were discovered only through the attempt of the germans to break their contracts with american importers I 1 spent several months in germany at the time dickering for the purchase of a potash mine but the price was too high millions spent in search when I 1 returned to the united stated I 1 called upon the department of agriculture and also on president taft and requested that a search be made for potash beds in this country the government has several millions of dollars the utah deposit and the searle lake deposit in california are the only deposits that have been found outside of the giant seaweed of the pacific ocean in the searle lake wells are drilled through seventy feet of salt until an underground flow of salt water is found this water contains borax soda and potash the problem has been to separate the potash from the others that will be found in time and will be a profitable business as the borax and soda can be handled as side lines no feasible way has been found to extract the potash from the seaweed sometimes these seaweed run as high as 60 per cent potash in addition to having our troubles over the supply of potash the european war hab caused the armour company entanglements entangle ments with great britain that country has seized thirty one shiploads ship loads of lard and fat backs which we had shipped to our branches in sweden norway and denmark the cargoes are valued at the british did not care so much for the meat as it feared the lard and fat backs their into germany fina 11 way and that t the he 0 mans would make glycerine out of glycerine of that kind would be ehnen expense but then expense is nothing in this war glycerine is used to make nitro glycerine glyce by adding nitric picric and sulphuric acid it is the base of the high explosive anaf ware and is 3 most necessary in this war gun cotton too is a most necessary Yar tide and the cotton growers have been mak m I 1 ing good sales gun cotton is made from fro f linter or that part of the cotton which ad adheres to the seeds this thi S linter is picked ot oft and sold at 2 cents a pound but since the th war started it is now selling for 4 cents pound As the supply is short the gun cotton manufacturers are buying low grade cotton at 9 and 10 cents a pound and are cut cui ting it up into equal lengths it is feces i sary that the cotton in gun cotton be cut into equal lengths as each piece must burri burn as fast as all other pieces or the slow burning would burst the guns or the shells before they left the muzzle of a gun germans monopolize abaline dyes the germans have a monopoly on the abaline dyestuffs dyes dye tuffs stuffs which are used in making gasoline and explosives I 1 have been in the chemical factory at Fredericks hafen near manheim which was bombarded dy by french aviators the other day it is the chief chemical factory of germany there are fifty two brick buildings and the chemical reaction on the dyestuffs dye stuffs in each building is different the chief chemist in each building does only one thing he is under bond to the head of the company and ana to the government not to disclose what he does to the coal tar when the chemical reaction is finished in one building the crude dye is forced through a pipe to another building where it is treated again it Is secrecy all the way through the abaline dye from coal tar was discovered in england but a german assistant carried the secret to berlin at the university there the german professors take bright american and english students and put them to work on a theoretical experiment the professor knows what he wants want to get but does not know how to get it the students are paid about 60 a mont and a prize of from 1000 to is huns hun up for the successful solution research Resa lh invincible work has made the germans almost in the matter of explosives germany to 0 order must have phosphate rock in exist and raise crops the land is subject ed to a highly intensive state of cultivation a slag s and while its iron ore produces roc which might do yet the phosphate extremely necessary few a 1 I saw a dispatch in the papers fear days ago in which it st stated abed there was a run s that the supply of glycerin would if glycerin is a byproduct of soo soap P american people use ilse more soap there 14 e more glycerin there is enough glycerin f the le asted by small packing houses and by 4 doing their own butchering and by housewives ouse wives making their own soap to sup iby the armies of europe lher accompanying mr macdowell is howard 10 chappell president of the mineral pro ducts company he is a chemist of new nev york and was employed at one time in the chemical factory at Fredericks hafen mr macdowell said that the armours were not interested in the marysvale Marys vale deposits until within the past few weeks herald lican salt lake city |