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Show SURVEY TO RESUME DRILUMGFDR POTASH Renewed efforts are to be made by the United States geological survey to find potash deposits in the Nevada desert , since the European war has prevented its importation from Germany, says the Goldfield Daily Tribune. The scarcity of potash in this country kas had such aa : effect upon the manufacture of potassium potas-sium cyanide, It is reported, that soma of the mines of the west are facing ft shutdown.. They cannot secure sufficient quantities of that ore reducing chemical at prices enabling them to regain gold from the liquid at a profit. The drilling for potash is to b resumed re-sumed in the Black Rock desert. H. Gale, member of the survey, is to superintend J the work. He will be assisted by Profes- , ! sor J. C. Jones of the geological department depart-ment of the Mackay school of mines. He 1 has been working on the problem of the- ! age of the ancient Lake Lahontan. which ' is said to be closely associated with the potash search problem, as from it may l be determined whether large or small de- 1 posits of the valuable salt may be found. I The potash salt the government hopes to find in the Black Rock desert is I chloride of potassium, or kainit. It is 1 used as a fertilizer. In manufacturing cy-I cy-I anide of potash, and is commercially val-I val-I uable in other ways. It ia given out that if the government finds potash in I the Nevada desert it will be mined extensively ex-tensively to relieve the shortage ia this country'- |