Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-12-01 | Page 3 | Fuller's Earth

FULLERS FULLER'S EARTH I In answer r to a communication from a western city Consul General Hobert J T. T V 1 of London reports as ns follows concerning his hig efforts to secure mation as alt to the process of tho the pr preparation tion of ot fullers fuller's i arth h for market Deposit Deposits of fullers earth exist ehi chiefly fl at Bath Nottinghamshire r and Maxton in iu flu Scotland in iu addition to the deposits in tho the London district the tons proprietors of the latter hatter refusing to give hc an any detail de de- de- de tails tail The Thc consul at it Bristol was applied to toor for or any information ho might be he able to obtain as to the deposits In in Bath Ho lie Homade Homade made a special journey to that dh for forthe the purpose of learning earning the tho methods of working tho the deposits there but the proprietor of the principal works worl-s stated that his bis method was a secret process known only to himself an and absolutely refused fl to give gi i c auy aUr further information regarding hi his process s which ho stated he be himself attended c to fo in in 1 a i pr private prato ato laboratory to which no ono one but himself over ever hu hal had a admittance The consular agent at Derby could only ascertain that fullers earth ill ia is worl worked rt in in layers from th the tho surface an and that there thero is ib nothing difficult ab about ut 1 t it it The fhe fullers fuller's earth industry is tien controlled bv h. u ut combine which thich strictly preserves the tue methods U of prep prevo ai of the earth arth the final process being known u on only to one or two per per- U from rom whom no information can be obtained