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Show WHERE SALT HAS LOST ITS SAVOR. We have .never shared th belief Jhat the nalt iloponita upon whit'h the supreme court has just delivered an opinion are worth millions. We have two or three reasons for that belief. One ia that nhU in one or another form is too generally distributed; distri-buted; another is that it ia a cheap and very heavy NubHtanee and will not bear transportation to distant dis-tant places; another is that salt ean be made at Salt Lake and delivered cheaper than it can be due from the Halt marahes. The state that at present produces the most salt is Michigan. There it is found in brine and all that is needed is to pump tho brine and evaporate the water. Nevada haa a salt deposit only little way from the Southern Pacific of large extent, which ia a genuine salt factory. fac-tory. For example, if a groove is cut out any distance dis-tance into it. say groove six feet wide and four feet deep, this year and the aalt removed, by this day next year that groove will be filled again with Holt almost, or quite chemically pure. JTSfure'a laboratories are busy making salt in nearly every state in the union, and hence we do not prize highly those deposits out on the line of the Western I'a;ifie. Transportation rates will have to be greatly reduced before they can take on any great value. |