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Show TO EXTRACT POTASH FROM BRINE IN LAKE Encouragement for tiie production of potash from the-brines of certain lakes in Utah and Nebraska is offered by B. M. Buineh, chairman of the war industries board, in an article published recently in the United Slates official bulletin. It is renounced that tinder the direction of C. H. McDowell, diraetor of the chemical division di-vision of the war industries board, a plant to extract potash from deposits of alunite in Utah is about to be established. The location of the proposed plant is not given. The report of Mr. Baruch states, also, that the brines of Great Salt Lake and the alkali deposits west of Salt Lake have been lound to contain unlimited unlim-ited amounts of potash. |