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Show THE SALT PRODUCT The reports say that the production of American Ameri-can salt broke all records in 1909, reaching $8,343,831. These are the Jffures given by the geological geo-logical survey. The six leading states in the salt industry ara Miohiganr-Uaw Tor ay-Ohio, Kansas, Louisiana and California. In 1909 these six states produced salt valued at $7,714,557. The salt is obtained from rock aalt, ea water and natural brine int other words, from all the known sources of salt. In this connection it may properly be stated that when the sources of salt fail in other places, Utah will have enough left to supply the world for several thousand years. We have mountains moun-tains of rpek aalt, where all that is needed is to quarry the aalt. ' If six barrels of water arc taken from the Great Salt lake and the fluid is evaporated, there remains a barrel of aalt. Salt lake is ninety miles long and on an average of thirty miles wide. The salt works at the bottom of it are always in perfect running order, and from that source alone any statistician who ia curious could figure how much it would be possible to take fr m the lake and still leave it not very good drinking water, and not water in which fish tio well while alive, although it preserves them when they are dead. The amount that ean bj taken ia limited only by the transportation. If the roads and the cars were here, enough could be shipped to supply the world, and that without diminishing the aupply in the least. It is the only perpetual mine that we know of; the' only inexhaustible mine on this continent. But without that we hrve enough rock aalt in the mountains for the world's use for some thousands of years to com; so much, indeed, that while the world has its anxieties about most other things, it need have nott at all about the future aupply of salt. |