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Show THE SALT INDUSTRY. One of the great industries of Utah, and one which is Increasing In Importance Impor-tance every year, Is the manufacture and refining of salt. The Great Salt lake holds apparently on inexhaustible supply of salt, which. In the successful treatment of many of the ores In this State and her neighbors, neigh-bors, has been found Indispensable. This Is particularly true of the silver-lead silver-lead ores, which have made the State fa mous. In 1 .88 the Inland Crystal Salt company com-pany established a plant on the shores of the Great Salt lake, which Is at once one of the largest and finest equipped plants for the manufacture and refining of salt In the United States. The modern machinery Is operated by electricity and the annual product Is estimated es-timated at an average of 30,000 tons. This year's product will exceed 32,000 tons. Of its total production about 50 per cent is used by various mining companies com-panies In Utah, Wyoming, Idaho. Cclo-rado, Cclo-rado, Nevada, and other neighboring States. The process employed here In the manufacture of salt Is the simplest of many, and is known as the solar evaporation evap-oration plan. The salt biine Is raised from the lake by means of a centrifugal centrifu-gal pump, and conveyed by flume to a canal on the shore of the lake, and thence some two miles inland to evaporating evap-orating ponds. It remains In thepe ponds until the density has increased to nearly the point of precipitation, when It Is again conveyed to what is known as harvesting ponds. It then remains in the5e ponds until the evaporation is complete, when the residue remaining is crude salt. This is sacked and shipped to the various customers among the mines. Such portion of the crude salt as Is required Is taken to the refinery and after a most thorough process ultimately ultimate-ly finds its way to market. Notwithstanding the immensity of the salt interests of the United States, the- businers has not always been a lucrative lu-crative one. The local company has suffered somewhat this year owing to unsettled conditions In the Northwest and In California, which have made It unprofitable to figure very prominently In that territory this year. Competition Competi-tion in the East, In Colorado, Womlng and New Mexico has been keen, and rival manufacturers have been struggling strug-gling for a foothold, which has had a tendency to demoralise prices and reduce re-duce profits. One at the advantages which this concern con-cern has over all others Is their ability to manufac ture an absolutely pure, fine grade of salt, which they are putting up in cartons and which Is the only Strictly pure rait In the United States sold in this kind of package Their advantage lies in the fact that their product, manufactured by the solar evaporation plan, requires no chemicals for bleaching, nor foreign Ingredients to absorb the moisture. This Royal Crystal Crys-tal Table salt. as it Is known to the trade, is deservedly popular, and the fact that Park & Tllford, New York City's famous fancy grocers, are New York agents far the Inland Crystal Salt company Is sufficient evidence of its purity and a guarantee of its popularity. popular-ity. Another product of this enterprising company, which Is finding a ready market, mar-ket, is sulphurized rock salt for stock. This article Is patented and manufactured manufac-tured only by the Inland Crystal Salt company. It is made into compressed bricks, is convenient to handle, and the fact that material Improvements will have to be made this coming ear to meet the demands of stockmen all over the country Is evidence of Its efficacy In the treatment of dUviasc-s peculiar to stock. Word was received December-22 that the product of this company had been awarded the grand prize for quality of salt at the St. Louis exposition. This is the highest prize awarded and means that the sail is Superior to any other now being sold on the American market. |