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Show NATURAL SALT FOUND READY HBTIIE TABLE Remarkable Geological Condition Condi-tion of Salt fteds of Tooele Couuty. Special to The Tribune. OGD'eN, July 2S. A letter received by the law firm of Maglnnls & Corn from II. I, Ilogan ut Montollo. dated July 21, shows a pocullar geological condition In the salt beds of iho Montcllo Salt company, com-pany, a corporation organized In Ogden nnd one that hns a friendly suit Imminent Immi-nent to determine the rights of the people peo-ple of the State to enter ami acquire saline lands. In tho enabling act for tho admission of tho territory of t't'ah aa a State of tho Union, Congress passed an act granting grant-ing for the benefit of tho University of Utah. 110.000 acres of tho saline lauds of tho Slate, and all otjior of the nallno lands. It Is contended that the language Is ambiguous In Its meaning, and thnt tho University of Utah having made Its selection of Its apportioned lltt.OOO acres of theso lands, all other saline lands In tho State are open lo acquirement, and this Is tho basis of tho Montollo Salt company's onntontlon nnd under which thoy will defend their rights to tho 20.-000 20.-000 acren which thoy havo acquired and tho lnnds that thoy purposo lo acquire additionally, at the southern extromlly of this remarkable salt deposit In Tooelo county. Mr. Jlocan's loiter shows some really remarkable geological conditions and some that the scientists have not yet explained. Ilogan Is traveling with two teams and a party of six men and Is still taking up additional claims for the company. No man can acquire more than one claim of twenty acres, and no stock Is issued, but is all pooled. In other words It Is not a speculation In stocks, for tho reason that the owners of the locations do not rocolvo stock, hut are credited with the location on tho books. t, Tho peculiar features aro that the area Is covered with a bod of rock salt. Slx-tv-two miles south of Montollo the main lino of the Wnstnrn Pacific out of h-alt Lake runs over this salt, il.e tin h-.ug laid In It. 'J ne road crosses tho claims about four miles south of the inuth end mid i be cia'ir.s an- located on both shies. Mr. Tiocan' letter .'ays: "Ir .oii'd bo a hard problem to. compute tho area of th.s.salt. In one place we cut through tho rock salt and two men with buckets dipped out several hundred pounds and It ran In on them as fast as thoy dipped It out. This was of the finest quality of salt and on the top of the whole area Is a layer of fine salt ready to be scraped up i for Immediate use and lit for any man's table, without refining." This Is perhaps one of the freak occurrences oc-currences in geology. As these salt do- ' poslif! arc described by Mr. Ilogan, the salt Is as fine as quicksand, and Is chem-Icilly chem-Icilly pure. Excavation Is followed with a rush of the salt from the sides. The company will put stoam shovels at the work and will load the natural product InM cars. The Ogden Packing and Provision Pro-vision company had a samplo carload and said they would pay 31 a ton for It on carsi for the curing of moats. Othel packing concerns arc nfter it. and It Is described ns being In a condition that It can bo sacked In the beds for dairy suit and that Its elements arc better than the best of refined salts. |