San Pete Free Press | 1903-07-01 | Page 6 | Production of Nitrate of Soda

Production of Nitrate of Soda. The annual report of the Nitrate Aasociatlon of Chile, which control the world's supply of nitrate of soda, shows the production In 1902 to have been 2,982,522.80 pounds from seventy sev-enty -eight works. Ths nitrate bods are near the surface and are worked aa stone quarries. It is anticipated that the trnmenae amount of nitrate the United States now gets from Chile for use In fertilizers will ultimately ulti-mately be supplied by factories making mak-ing It by electrical process from the sir, as is being done at Niagara Falls.