Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-03 | Page 62 | Salt Product of the State

Salt Product of the State One of the most important industries 1 of Utah is Hie salt industry. There aro some mineral salts, but nowhero do they exist, in quantities to make them of much commercial value, and the big supply conies from tho evaporation in specially constructed ponds of tho waters of tho Great Salt Lake. Tho Inland Crystal Salt company manufactures tablo and dairy salt for the market, tho renncrv being located near tho salt beds at tho shoro of tho lako and about midway between tho present Saltair pavilion aud the old Garlicld pavilion. During tho vear 1908 v.uj.. hj.. ji.iu uuv u ien mourns' run, but m that time they produced over 40,000 tons of crudo salt. On November Novem-ber 5, 1903, the entire refinery was destroyed de-stroyed by lire, entailing a loss of .$12,-000. .$12,-000. The company is now engaged preparing plans for tho erection of a new and modern refinery, and this will bo puslicd to completion as rapidly as weather conditions will permit, tho details de-tails of tho new warehouses to bo worked out after tho reconstructed refinery re-finery is in operation. Out of its crude product and before tho destructiou of -llS P,ant tl10 management produced oOOO tons of tablo and dairy salt that curries 9.9,927 per cent sodium chlorido (pure salt) that is tho purest salt in tho world; -1G00 tons of No. .1 aud No. 2 and hide salt, used, as its namo indicates, indi-cates, for the curing of hides; 20,000 tons of stock salt for cattle and sheep; J200 tons of sulphurized salt, specially prepared for livestock, containing 9S per cent pure salt and 2 per cent sulphur. sul-phur. Tho remaining marketable product prod-uct is 50.00 t ons of red rock. Tho Associated Salt company was organized or-ganized by a number of the leading shcopincn of Idaho, associated With a few Ogdcn capitalists, and tho corporation corpora-tion secured title to somo well situated saline lands at Littlo Mountain in tho lake, whcre evaporating ponds were constructed throo years ago, nnd the company has ever since boon producing salt, its best market being among its own stockholders. Its organization was planned by the Idaho Wool Growers' association, as-sociation, who had been at the mercy of tho salt, trust, the present Inland Crystal Crys-tal Salt Compaq-, which had tho prico pf salt boosted up to an almost prohibitive pro-hibitive figure, and as salt is ono of the positive necessities of tho sheep industry, in-dustry, and as there aro many thousands of sheep represented by the Iduho Wool Growers association; also they wero Tinvirnr t li n. onlt- 4th -... i., tnnes tho cost of production to keep their sheep in healthy condition. The wool growers went into the business busi-ness themsolves and bought nearly all of their own product in the first year of its existence, sinco which timo it has extouded its markot into Oregon and northern California. But the chief benefit of the new salt beds was that the sheepmen ran their herds for one-third one-third the cost of salt that they had paid when the salt trust had the only available supply, The product of theso beds in 190S was 3S00 tons, but tho sales ran up to 4200 tons, and the capacitv fo radditioual production of the crude salt is being provided. Also, tho finances for tho crectiou of a refine- have been arranged ar-ranged for, and tho work will start noxt rear with a plant with a daily product capacity of fifty tons refined table and dairy salt, per da3".