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Show POTASH COMPANY ! ASKS FOR LAND ; J v Utah Salduro company lias made f 1 -Nation fur mineral patent to 1543 r . ns of potash land of twenty acres n'.Tir Sajcluro, according- to a state--.''tiii's dc yesterday by R. K. Cobb, gen--; manager of the company. Mr. Cobb ; i :iiat the application is the outgrowth -- r ?rork startfd by the company in that .".!'.' in lUlii in effort to relieve the 1 , r:'ry of a shortage of potash which 'j not bo imported from Germany at time. Tiie tract of land Is approximately 30,- atres in area, and the company has My made improvements which cost e than 52,000,000, according to Mr. : ;:icc 1316 more than 200 miles of trri-v trri-v -, trendies have been dug and many V of ijHvate railroad have been built, y:.: trendies were made for the purpose h delivering and supplying brine, which : ii run into solar evaporating ponds from J. -,::h the crude potash salts are ob- I ::.r.'d. ; a factory has been built and the cora-;ny cora-;ny has been manufacturing potash on ii i small scale for some time. Most of the t'i jd;ct has been shipped to the Pacific iit and tiie Hawaiian islands. That f : product of the factory contains 80 per i . ' of potasium chloride by analysis, 1 j jl:h compares favorably with the best j ,( Piasii salts manufactured in Germany, P i!:;e statement of Mr. Cobb. |