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Show Ill HAS URGE PHOSPHATE BEDS Geologist Reports Heavy Mineral Deposits in Rich County. According to a report made by Professor Profes-sor William Peterson, geologist for tho state board of equalization, to tho board, there are seven miles of exposure of a syncllnc of phosphate deposits in Rich county, and, In addition, live miles of crop I i net. Tho syncllno exposures oi phosphates can be traced for about fifteen fif-teen miles. Tho phosphate occurs hi a vein about ninety feet wiue, but Is con-, con-, sidered rich enough to mine undr present pres-ent conditions for a width of only uhput five and one-haif feet. Calculating the entire exposure, there would be approximately approxi-mately MOO, 100 tons of such rich phosphates. phos-phates. On tho claims already tiled, and estima tiriK the commercial mining limit at 300 fet-t. there would be about 13,(w0, 000 tons of phosphate. Some of these lands have been patented patent-ed since lOOJi, but, owing to confusion resulting re-sulting from the fact that the clulmg are at places within about 000 feet of the Utah-Wyoming line, twenty -six claim have never been on any assessment roll. This would meii n tha t back taxes mtpht be collected, in the opinion of some members mem-bers of the stfl t e board, at least on the acreage nt $f an acre, back to tho time the claims were patented. On the same theory, net proceeds, if they can be proved, might also be taxed. Professor Peterson reports that the market for phospha t es seems to have been somewhat steadier of late. The board has not yet decided on a basis for valuing alunilo or phosphate beds. Tho nlunlto deposits, it is pointed out, will, even If tho expected happens and the bottom drops out Of the potash market, be valuable for the aluminum, contained, provided a commercial process can he worked out for recovering" this rneta I. , Secretary William Pnhey o." tho board; yesterday said that, in his opinion, there! oujjht t be son in method of ndeujia tely j taking the iron lands of Iron and Cache1 counties. j |