Show HERCULES POTASH PLANT approximately is being expended by the hercules powder company of wilmington Wll delaware and the swift packing company of chicago in making san isan diego probably one of the greatest potash and fertilizer ports in the world says the union san isan diego california at chula vista the hercules company is erecting what experts declare to be the largest potash plant in the western hemisphere to supply this factory with the raw product the hercules company is to operate a fleet of three huge kelp harvesters with a total cutting capacity of tons an hour the tug bahadar reached port from san isan francisco saturday evening with a new kelp harvester built to the order of the hercules company and yesterday steamed for the day bay city to pick up and tow to san diego two more harvesters they are expected here this week the reaper brought here saturday is sixty five feet long and is equipped with en gines of horsepower one engine be h ing used for cutting and the other for pulverizing the green kelp the two tw J reapers readers which will ibe be brought here this week will be twin screw barges ij and will w be propelled by two horsepower engines 1 one of the harvesters will toe be ninety feet in 1 length and the other sixty five feet the hercules harvesters are of the most 4 sturdy construction and built to withstand s the heaviest kind of weather the kelp is cut with revolving steel knives six feet un berneath der neath the surface of the sea and is then clar carried ried to the pulverizing plant on oil the reaper by a revolving belt which extends un der the reaper to within a few feet of the knives the pulverized kelp will then be sucked into vats placed on lighters and tow i ed to the hercules companas comp anys wharf archula vista |