Show u 0 ALUMINUM IN UTAH from negotiations now on between salt lake interests and new yorkers it appears likely that another phase of the mining dg industry will soon be developed in utah says the salt lake tribune this is none other than utilization of the vast deposits of sulphate which contains about 4 or 5 per cent of aluminum to be found in san juan county southeast em rn utah about ninety five miles from thompson and sixty miles from dolores colorado after being concentrated aluminum sulphate is used in some of the larger eastern cities for the purpose of settling and clarifying the water distributed to ta consumers the water as it comes from its source being in many instances too impure for service without treatment salt Li lakers akers among whom are J H cook and A ac K tiernan mine operators and engineers control the big deposit in san juan county and it was learned recently that negotiations a for development backed by big new york interests are under way Engine engineers ors who have made an examination of the ground report that the deposit consists of a horizontal bed in the sandstone from twenty five to eighty feet thick the entire face being exposed along the side of the canyon for a distance of about feet and about feet above the bed of the creek it is overlaid by sandstone feet thick the property consists of twenty six claims by 1500 feet located for feet along the deposit there are wood and water in abundance hence the erection of a mill for tile the treatment or the deposit would not be a matter of great expense it is a matter inetter of common knowledge that utah is every day adding to the demonstration on of her wonderful mineral resources and development of the aluminum sulphate deposits will be another step in the remar remarkable kabIe progress of the last decade |