Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 3 | Chilean Nitrate to be Delivered Soon

CHILEAN NITRATE TO BE DELIVERED SOON Price Not Fixed, but Probably Will Be $75 a Ton to Farmers for Their Own Use. WASHINGTON, Dec. '29. Deliveries of- upwards of 100,000 tons of Chilean nitrate purchased through the war industries in-dustries board under tho food control act for sale to American farmers at cost, probably will begin in January. Secretary Houston said today that the board arranged some time ago for the purchase, but until recently it had not been able to obtain transportation facilities. fa-cilities. Ships now have Deen secured for the delivery at American portB during dur-ing January of 18,000 tons and assurance assur-ance has been given that tonnage to bring in the remainder soon will be available. While the prico has not beon definitely defi-nitely set, the secretary said it probably prob-ably will be approximately $75 on board cars at the seaboard. All sales will be for cash and farmers will have to pay rail freight charges, the state fertilizer fertil-izer tug fee, and any other local charges. The department of agriculture now is arranging for the distribution of the nitrate, which will be sold only to farmers for their own use during the coming season and generally not in excess ex-cess of the amounts used by them heretofore.