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Show PHOSPHITE OF WEST I m wmm Potash Holds the Stage, but Phosphates Soon May Be Utilized. 1 The decree of the United States court ! the disfrh t of Wyoming In regard to i the manner in which the deports of 1 phosphate rook iii that Male are to be Io, t.,t uhi.-h. in the case Involve,), wa by lha toda and not by the placer law?, occasioned onsidemble Interest lo- ally, for a conolderabld part of the de-poaiti de-poaiti not withdrawn are held by local Tntareata The application of the i,-.de laws In this parti.-ular case mav or may i not oonatltute a precedent for future guidance, depending i n r c l on conditions I surrounding each particuTaj caae as a praced en l baaed upon finding 6f racta is limited In Its application unless the fa cts i olnoide. Then Is so much innd containing tnee deposit:-. hOWOVtrr. not open to location that it is not easy to conclude Just how far reaching the decree of (he court will be. For all future purposes' any past decision may be useless, for If the pottcy of leasing the lands la arrid out by the government the lands will not leave the hands of thu governui'-iiL BXOOpt upon w.ii defmed limitations At present 'he government Is aacmlng-lv aacmlng-lv more interested in discovering potfish deposits than In developing f.hosphate deposits already known to vlt. The demand de-mand fr fertilizer for home sources may provo so pressing In the near future fu-ture th.-ir the western known fertilizer rock may become available far sooner than l Irdi.-.'jted al present. Freight ratet nsiu now prevent western competition compe-tition with the aaatarn manufacturer, for the market tor Ut- finished product Is In in.-, east and middle waal The following paragraph In the Boston Plnanclal News has a bearing upon una mattf r: Jt would have been a strange freak of nature if the United States, with nearly every variety of natural resources In its rontine' had been endowed with no d" posits of potash. The department of agriculture ag-riculture Iuin frefuenUy pointed out that potash Is to be found In considerable quantttloa, but it has not yet shown the chemical and fertilizer -omp.iTiles how to obtain n in commercial form. That is why km Sri can consumers are spending 1130.000,000 a year for rommerrlal fertilisers fer-tilisers brought in from abroad. But Secretary Sec-retary WINon ha never given up hope and in ;i forthcoming report of an ex-MUiatlve ex-MUiatlve Inveatlgal on which his depart-mant depart-mant i as bean making, aided bj s spe. lal appropriation from congress, he holds out the promise of early utilization vt Amerh an d. ;ni.-il s." |