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Show POTASH FROM UTAH A BENEFlTSrOBACCDj Product From This State Isjj Said to Be Purest in the li World i EXPERT DISCUSSES ITj Latest Big Shipment Is Sent to Cuba, Contains No ll Chlorine. n Utah Is responsible for the prodncbonTl of the best c garB in the world. In J fact Utah m ght be sa d to grow the best cigars on the market The reason for it alL strange as it may seem, is ! that Utah produces the purest and best potash that can be found and the use of 'j potash as a fetrilizer ib esent al to the product on of the highest class tobacco harles H MacDowell of Chicago one of the most prom nent men in the devel opment of Utah s potash deposits re turned last mght from Alarysvale where he has been inspecting the plant and mine there In diseussing the uses of potash he mentioned the fact that pot ash was necessary as a fertilizer in to bacco f elds The last big shipment made by the company Mr MacDowell said was to i Cuba, for use as tobacco fertilizer Much of the fertilizer which is used WjJ tobacco fields contains chlorine Mry MacDowell expla ns The ordinary potjB ash contains chlor ne But the chlorine! has a damaging effect upon tobacco! plant leaves It cheapens the grade of! the tobacco a How to Detect Chlorine 4 If your c gar burns to a white aehl and you have no trouble keeping itfl lighted, said Mr MacDowell 'youl may be sure there is little or no chlorine I in the tobacco But f it bums to a black a h and frequentlv goes out it is because chlorine was present in the potash f ert Uzer In the potash we are . producing there s absolutely no traee of . chlorine because there sn t any m the deposits here in Utah So that makes it the best fertilizer it is possible to obtain. Mr MacDowell feels more optimist c than ever about the possibilities for the Utah potash deposits which his com , pany controls The last carload shipped out while he was at Marvvale tested 96 9 per cent pure potash, which is exceptionally ex-ceptionally high. The pcta-i m the fa, mous German field" heretofore almost the only source n the world, runs around 90 per cent and eonta ns the, deleterious chlorine substance besides TA Therefore, m the opinion of Mr Mae Dowell the Utah product is much su perior m The rein is developing in a very en M couraging wav said Mr MacDowell.. We find the further we go into it thes wider it gets. We have a larger vein 4 now than when we started and we nsveH every reason to believe that there are j large and valuable deposits there. ill 0 ercommg Difficulties About the onl tro ble ve have had!, is with the plant where we reduce ibjM rock, crystallize the potash and prepsreB it for shipping And those troubles areB only naturall those wh h usually come"T with the development of a new mdns-B trv The potash s a d ff c It substance to handle in some wavs It is an exeepS tionally hard substance due to the shiS minum format on an wears on m'lIM chmerv We are grad allv over omliifM these S fficulties however and we hveB hopes that the industrv will developM splendilly Mr MacDowell a In tted thst theW company was nvestigatng the alunu- num question and was ond cting some , experiments along that 1 e Whether J the industry will le eloi nto one for Jj the manufacture of al m n m products Is yet a que tion At t resent t mem potash merelv as a f e t luser is t0?1"sJ niandiiig a strong market be.an e of tneM loss of the Cern an lv and thereM fore the compan s devoti g its 8ttcn t on largely to 1 e i tion of product as a fert 1 ze fl |