Show 10 T BUILD SALT MILLS dependent l Companies to Erect Plants I DO NOT FEAR SALT TRUST Jtritlcprndent Crystal Salt Company Will Put Up a PifteenTon Capacity Capa-city Kill at Syracuse nnd Sears Utah Salt Company Has Ordered a Mill for Parmliigton Inland Crystal Crys-tal Company Officials Say They Will Buy Out No More Plants Preening Pre-ening to Fight for Supremacy There are breakers ahead in the salt business In Utah Although there has been noconspicuous rate cutting as yet the trouble Is I likely to break out at any time Despite the announced de tennlnatlon of Inland Crystal company to secure a absolute monopoly of the business the smaller Independent companies com-panies are preparing to enlarge their plants and build new mills From present Indications there will be twojmllls In active operation competing with the trust inside of the next three I months The SearsUUh Salt company has already ordered 0 mill which will treble Us present capacity and the machinery ma-chinery IB now being constructed at Leavonworth Kan The Independent Crystal l Salt company also has decided to put in a mill at Syracuse where the salt kinds of the company are located Within the next ten days the Independent Inde-pendent company will have In operation opera-tion a mill for grinding hide and packers pack-ers and Ice salt with cream rlt a capacity of thirty tons a day Plans are being drawn for a mill which will turn out 15000 pounds of refined salt dally for uhioh the foundations will be laid and the Building erected as soon as the wcatHer will permit I Is evident from these projects that the independent salt 1 manufacturers are not frightened by the repeated statements state-ments of the trust officials that there Is no 1 money to be made In the busl ness They claim on the contrary that they are doing very well and see a clmnep for future profit by enlarging and increasing their output The officers of the Inland Crystal company still assert that they will not brook the Interference of any other companies and are prepared to fight if necessary to maintain their monopoly Although they have 90 per cent of the trade they Insist that It Is necessary to get It all in order to make any money out ofj the business The Independent companies boy claim are not In the business for legitimate profit but are merely trying to compel the trust to buy them ou t William B Clarke of Kansas City one of the directors of the company whoIs spending a few days hero Is not entirely In sympathy with this policy lie believes there 19 I business enough for all the companies so Jon as they stick to legitimate trade and Is In fayon of ignoring them nltogether There is profit in the salt business said > fr Clarke at the Alto club last I night cthieitvise e would not be in It We cannot prevent others from selling the product o well a ourselves and there Is no reason why other companies com-panies should not make money also We dont Intend to buy up any more plants because we have more salt now than we can sell and there would be no object In acquiring additional acquJrlng property proper-ty |