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Show POTASH TO Concern to Develop Mineral Deposits to Incorporate In-corporate ; Wyoming-Utah Wyoming-Utah Capital Interested To Expand Post-war Industry In-dustry tb Meet Growing Grow-ing Needs of United States; Fields Located. VVith an authorized capitalization of $1-1,000,000, articles of incorporation for the Liberty PotasTi company have been ii rafted and made ready for official recording re-cording with the secretary of state of Utah. The filing will be done this week. One million dollars of the capi- ' taj stock has been set apart as preferred, pre-ferred, and is held almost entirely by men. prominent in commercial affairs of Utah and "Wyoming. The remaining stock is commou. Tho Liberty Potash, company has bfirn formed for the purpose of "producing I tot ash f rom mineral deposits in the - leucile hills of Wyoming, where a mineral min-eral , known as wyomingitc occurs in immense- quantities at Superior, near Green Kivcr, "Wyo. Tito major, ty uf men financially i n-1e n-1e roster in the company are residents of I.' fall and Wyoming. The officers of the concern are : T. W. Boycr, president; presi-dent; Guy Sterling, vico president and general malinger; 15. JI. Allison, ,Tr., secretary-treasurer. The personnel of the board of directors is: T. W. Boyer, vice president of tho Continental National Na-tional bank of Salt Lake; Guy Sterling, mining engineer of Salt Lake; Augustine Augus-tine Kendall, president First National brink, Kock Spring?, Wyo.; P. J. Qucaly, vice . president and general manager Kemfueror Coal mvnpany, Kern merer, Wyo.; J. P. Scholcficld, K earns building, build-ing, Salt Lake; Moylan C. Pox, capitalist. capital-ist. Salt Lake: E. M. Allison, Jr., Salt Lake. SPUR RAIL LINE TAPS MAIN PLANT. The main plant of tho Liberty Potash company is located slightly more than a niilo out of Green Piver, Wyo., and is reached by a spur line connecting with the Union Pacific railroad main line at Grecu Kivcr. The spur -was completed sufficiently to use for the hauling of plant const rue t ion material ten day a ago, and should be completely ballasted and ready for the movement of heavy t rains, pulled by standard engi ties, in forty or sixty days. Tho haul line has been built under indorsement by tho federal director general of railroads. AH of t lie ingredient raw materials for the manufacture of potash will be hauled to the Green Kivcr plant from Superior. Sage a nd Salt Lake. The quarries at Superior, forty-t wo miles away, will supply the Wyomingitc; those at Sage the limestone, ami-from Salt Lake will be shipped the requisite a mount of salt. A t the present time I here is a force of 1 '20 men employed in the const ruction of the potash plant. Format ion of the Liberty Potash company results directly from exigencies exigen-cies due to the war. Its purpose is to make America produce tho necessary potash needed in its own service, both for fertilizing and other purposes. At t he present t ime there is a great and urgent demand for the product. RENEWED SUPPLY IS DUE TO WAR. Heretofore Germany has supplied the yreat proportion of American demand for pel ash fertilizer, aud because Germany Ger-many was able t o meet all import requirements, re-quirements, no concerted or reallv genuine genu-ine effort, experts aver, has even been made in this country fn meet ai of its own need. iMiriug the war, however. German potash was entirely rut off f"oni export. beeane of the effective-no-.s of the allied maritime blockade. Ihie to t'nN i-an.-e there resulted a great -en re it v in the m: pp!y in this country of th;- most impoi't'int clement in the f Omit tr'vCrl rw Pa.ff KijrVttceuA Mm - g POTASH (Continued from Page One.) agricultural and industrial lit'e of America, amounting almost to a faijure. j For some years Guy Sterling, mining 'and civil engineer of this city, applied ! himself to attain a method or process j by which potanh could be siu-cessf uliy . ex! ractod in soluble form from potash-bearinir potash-bearinir rocks. Having discovered suck j a process and 'by repeated tests established estab-lished the practicability and economy ! of the process on a commercial basis, I he began the search for mineral de- posits "containing potash in commercial 1 quantities, which he eventually 1'ouud !in the leucite hills of Wyoming. In .lune, 11)17. T. W. Boyer of the Con-1 Con-1 linental National bank of Salt Lake be- i 'came interes;ed in the Sterling process; '. and the mineral locations, and, with Mr. Sterling, after considerable effort, obtained ob-tained from the government and the 1 Fnlon Pacific railroad the right to mine . the Wyominglte beds, the deposits of J which had been demonstrated by a series 1 of careful assays and analyses to con-! con-! tain large percentages of potash. 1 Wyomingite is a potasslurn-aluminum-, silicate; oceurs,ns a lava, and as a silicate 1 Is in a class by itself. It Is an intimate mixture of several potash-bearing silicates, sili-cates, including feldspar, leucite and other oth-er ingredients. It contains much less silica in proportion to Its percentage of potash ' than" ordinary feldspar, and it i therefore requires a less proportion of reagents re-agents for the extraction of its potash than feldspar or other similar rocks. While it Is classed as a hard, abrasive rock, its occurrence as a lava enables it to he readily crushed and pulverized. The land acquired from the Union Pacific Railroad company alone aggregates 20;.0 acres, and the deposit of the Wyomingite therein is estimated by the United States geological survey to range from fifty to seventy-five feet in thickness. On the basis of fifty feet in thickness, these 2ti0 acres contain 3-10,000,000 tons of Wyomingite. This tonnage is very materially ma-terially increased by the deposits in the lands derived from the government, both by lease and by right of location. The average potash content of all these rocks has been proven to be over 10 per cent. In addition to these deposits of Wyomingite. Wyo-mingite. Mr. Boyer and Mr. Sterling acquired ac-quired the beds of limestone near Sage in Lincoln county, Wyoming, for use as a reagent In the silicate reduction. Plant in Salt Lake. In orcW to demonstrate these patented methods of potash extraction on a working work-ing scale, Mr. Boyer and Mr. Sterling erected in Salt Lake City a thoroughly equipped demonstration plant, containing all the necessary machinery. This plant has been in operation for more than a year, making frequent runs under the j direction of Mr. Sterling and subject to the observa tion of many other trained experts, including representatives of the geological survey and the general land office, all of whom are said to have pronounced pro-nounced this method of extracting potash from silicate rock a complete success. Frequent treatment of the crude material in this plant, in continuous operations of from twenty -four to forty-eight hours each, have, it is said, completely demonstrated demon-strated that their process effectively liberates lib-erates and saves the potash contained in the Wyomingite in a simple, direct and economical manner. The Sterling- process produces the potash pot-ash directly in a form ready for use In fertilizers, requiring no leaching, filtering, filter-ing, evanorating, pulverizing or refining, the product being a fine, light-colored powder. Thexprocess is fully covered by patents already granted, with additional patents covering improvements now pending. pend-ing. Satisfactory results having been obtained ob-tained through the experimental plant, Green River. Wyo.. was selected for the location of the main reduction plant, because be-cause of its accessibility lo the potash and limestone deposits, as well as to the Wyoming coal fields, from which a substantial sub-stantial supply of coal for fuel can be economically obtained. j Land Is Acquired. One thousand and eighty acres of land were acquired on the westerly side of Green River and within less; than a mile of the town on which to erect the main plant. Construction of a spur track of considerable length is now about completed com-pleted by the Utah Construction com-paov. com-paov. extending from the Union Pacific railroad to tho site of the plant under a contract with the federal director general gen-eral of railroads, and with full indorsement indorse-ment and approval. Realizing the importance of the work, the war industries board authorized the filling of priority orders for all the necessary neces-sary machinery for the Green River plant, and' practicallv all of the machinery Is now on tho ground, where the plant is being rapidly rushed to completion. As illustrating the importance of the potash industry to the people of this country and the necessity of having a domestic do-mestic supply sufficient to satisfy home consumption, B. M. Barueh, . chairman of the war industries board, caused to he published in the official U. S. Bulletin of November 9 an extended statement bearing on the Importance of this industry'. in-dustry'. He begins his statement by reciting re-citing that at the direction of President Wilson tlie chemical division of the Industries In-dustries board has turned over to the department of the interior the problem of Increasing the potash production of the United States. He then adds that this action was taken in order that an established estab-lished branch of the government may permanently per-manently set itself to the task of emancipating eman-cipating the American farmers from the grip of Germany's monopoly on the world's supply of fertilizer material. Problem Studied. Before the Signing of the armistice the war industries board had already attacked the problem. Chairman Barueh himself had appeared before a congressional committee In behalf of an amendment to the revenue bill wlych would give encouragement en-couragement to private industries that would undertake to establish potash production pro-duction in this country. The following quotation from Mr. Barueh Ba-rueh will illustrate how this industry is regarded by the government and its representatives: rep-resentatives: "Prior to the outbreak of the war. Germany, Ger-many, by reason of her monopoly of the potash supply, had gradually extended her arm around the food crops of the' world-It world-It was to Germany that the farmers of this and other countries had to look for the principal ingredients of their fer- tiltzers. i "Nowhere else were to he found the vast potash deposits, oontained in rock salt, which insured to the German potash exporters a natural supply sufficient to meet the demands of the world for several sev-eral thousands of years to come. When the outbreak of the European war sud-I sud-I denly cut off this supply, the situation of the American farmer was for a time desperate. "Under the stimulus oT necessity, efforts ef-forts were launched by private industries to meet the situation, and in consequence t'.ire has he en a considerable develop- i meat in the amount of potash produced ) in this country. Fy no means, however, i ; has this development approached the re- j j quirements of the country." ! Pians of Company. v i Taurine tlie year ended July, lf'1!, ir-! ir-! many imported into the United States ' about i!."-e.0i0 tons of potash, contained j in ;.":". i-"0 tons of crude and roilned salts of the value of many millions of dollars. A'-'-ordin? to tlie director of tlie Fnited I Stales geological survey, the production I of potash in tli's count rC in 1!'I7 was ; about :"-'."'Cti inns, beins; only 14 per cent 1 of the normal consumption of the coun-1 coun-1 try. Tl;"re has therefore been, experts ! de. hire, a very material shortage in the , desirable and actualiv needed supnlv o ! pn;tsh during th-- war. ami this shurtag-? exists now. This shortage the Liberty Potash company intends to supply, in part, during 151'), and entirely in the years to come. Potash is put to many diversified uses, most important of which is its use as an agricultural fertiliser. Tn addition, it is used in the manufacture 01" the higher grades of glasses, of explosives, of all forms of liquid soaps, as well as iu dye-in::, dye-in::, and it is also used extensively for medical purposes. The manufacture of potash in this count ry will furnish employment for American labor and will keep in circulation circu-lation at home the money which formerly, former-ly, went into the pockets of the German producers. Utahns Interested. Authorized by the capital issues committee, com-mittee, tlie company incorporated has ; been formed under the name of the Lib- ' erty Potash, company, which company has acquired p n d now owns ail 01' the rights, property and assets heretofore acquired ac-quired and owned bv Messrs. Bover and Sterling. As the magnitude of the -enterprise required re-quired the investment of very large capital capi-tal to insure its success on a scale he-fitting he-fitting its importance and sufficiently extensive ex-tensive to satisfy the ever-growing demand de-mand for domestic potash, others were Invited by Mr. Hover and Mr. Sterling to join them in pi omot ing the enterprise ami furnishinL' the necessary capital to insure its fimcess. These men. who are . now interested in the undertaking, are well-known citizens of Utal and Wyoming. Wyo-ming. It is the purpose of the Liberty PYttash company and the n--a who are behind it to proceed with all possible d. -natch with , the construction of the ilreen River plant. , with a view to bein prepared to p ace its product on tin- market at the earliest: possible date, whi'-h should be. aecoidingi to all present indications-, early in the 1 spring of j |