Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-02-02 | Page 3 | Potassium Chloride

POTASSIUTT CHLORIDE Company Organized to Mine for I Near Cody TRIBUNE SPECIAL Cheyenne Wyo Feb 1ho United States Potash company capital 5100000 nnd with a J20000 exploration fund has been organized by Detroit Mich men to mine for potassium chloride nt the Du Marls hot springs near Cody Wyo Nine claims have been secured and operations will begin early in the uprlng Tho company com-pany IH convinced that a largo depoplt of potash underlies their clalmJ IJtanh clnlmJ and as there is not a producing potash mine in America Ameri-ca and never has been it Is confident that it has a bonanza Nearly nil of tho potash need In the United States Is Imported from Stmssfurl Germany about JOOOO < worth a year I Is uocd In the manufacture of black and smokeless gunpowder ferti users glass paper Junpowter various drugs and patent medicines It ranges In value from 9 to 3IC per ton according to grade Specimens taken from tho claims of the United States Potash company are of tho latter grade almost pure in Its natural state