Show SALT LAND PURCHASES Inland Crystal Salt Company Gobbling Everything WILL SOON OWN IT ALL Tho Companys Purchases Extend from Nephi to Promontory and it will Soon be in a Condition to Practically Shut Out All Competition Competi-tion Offers for School Lands State Millers Association Meets I Elects Officers and Has a Banquet Merchants Report Business Dull There has been but little stir made nbout It but the fact remains that the Inland CrystaL Salt company has acquired ac-quired dlmost every piece of ground that Is capable of being used for the production of salt from Nephl on the BOuth to the Promontory on the north Three years ago the salt trust as It was then I called commenced to lease or buy every salt proposition In sight The llrst onslaught was at the salt springs near NephI where It Is pos riblo so Judges say to produce better table salt than can be made from the water of the Great Salt lake These I fell into the hands of the trust Then came the buying out oC the big works J near Saltalr Jeremy Co Adams Klesel at Syracuse the works near I TJrlgham City those near Corinne and the absorption of all the railroad lands along the shore of the lake Through its agents Moses Taylor and Thomas F Roueche the company has been gct tlnc there at a rapid rate Not only I lias It acquired landM that are available avail-able for salt purposes It Is said but it has amassed others besides In order that land lying remote from the lake but which could be used to manufacture manufac-ture salt might be shut oft from all communication with the lake Outside or the Saginaw salt works which are situated upon lCD acres of school lands and a quarter section near 0 the mouth of the Jordan river it Is said tho salt trust Is absolutely secure in their holdings either by lease or purchase and that It Is now after all that It docs not own Is evident from the fact that a member of the State I I Land board yesterday made the statement state-ment that the board bad been offered for certain school lands twice what It I was over expected they would Ming These lands have been under lease for a long time said a gentleman from Davis county yesterday and many Improvements have been made upon them That the salt people want them In order to Increase their output is not for one moment believed by those who are In a position to know It Is merely In furtherance of the scheme to control the entire output of tho State In order to shut out all competition the company can afford to pay a big price and allow the lands to lie idle It Is only a question oc time when the company will control the entire output and home consumption consump-tion of sail There are those however how-ever ho continued who seem to think that all that Is necessary to I make salt Is I to turn the water Into a depression In the earths surface and then trust to Old Sol to do the rest This Is all wrong If the soil be porous In Its nature it will be found absolute ly I valueless for salt purposes and I while there are thousands of acres along the lake shore out of all of E the e there are few Indeed which are natural salt beds I As a matter of fact the west shore of the Great Salt lake Is the Ideal L place for the manufacture of salt There the brine Is stronger and purer 1 because It Is not contaminated with the filth and weakened by the freshwater fresh-water which comes from so many streams on the eastern shore But transportation facilities are against the establishment of plants there which might be expected to pay a good ri Interest on the capital Invested The big company Is succeeding very well It would appear In that which it start ed out to do manipulate the salt 1 business of the State |