Show ALUNITE FIELDS germanys germanas Germ anys boast that she will win the war if for no other reason than her monopoly on the potash supply of the world was evidently made without full knowledge of the potash deposits in the marysvale Marys vale utah district said W P funk manager of the american metals corporation who was in isalt salt lake last week 1 there here is potash enough in sight in marysvale Marys arys vale to last the allied nations for hundreds of years he continued anese utah beds form the only deposits in the world that at are equal in extent and quality to the great german deposits in alsace and lorraine 1 I want to deny a statement that has been made to the effect that the utah potash ore is not soluble it is soluble it is true it requires roasting but that is also the case with much of the german potash when our crop the sugar cane crop and many others were cut down for the same reason A man from hawaii told me the other day that the sugar plantations there were facing a short shon use ase in the manufacture of commercial fertilizers tili and that is the use to which most potash is devoted shortage of potash cost eight cotton states last year the tobacco potash comes from the ovens it is ready tor crop for lack of potash fertilizer 1 I doubt if twenty tons of potash could be bought on the open market in the united states today and yet there is no man alive who could estimate the millions of tons waiting to be mined in the marysvale Marys vale district of utah it is only a matter of getting capital interested in development our company and other companies are developing what they can but the field is so vast there is opportunity for many other companies to come in they must come in if the district is developed up to producing the potash that must be mined to insure the crops of the nation alunite is the name of the potash ore we mine and it carries aluminum potash and sulphuric acid all three most valuable elements and most necessary to the prosecution of the war potash is used in the manufacture of munitions glass matches baking powder soap dyestuffs dye stuffs and drugs and it is also used in refrigerating electroplating bleaching weaving photography phot graphy before the war it was sold for 30 a ton now it brings about a ton |