| Show U L 11 T TilE E SALT INDUSTRY IN UTAH 1 Manager Clayton Talks Talka Interestingly Upon the Subject 5 and Shows Shawl That There Is No Trust Here J musses HII t HII H I HH HH I H IH I r or orI I Ic I c tl i T I j T I r I Ih If r h f f 1 j f j r j f T f f fJ I 1 w j t tt LI J dw r ri i w t c I r f fr 1 1 f 1 r L I 11 1 J J r tAt I i i COLONEL NEPHI W CLAYTON L C I 1 1 t I ke Nit sett harvest In Utah hM has been a ery 1 heavy beavy on one Id Colonel No N W Clayton lyton manager of the Inland Crye CrI tat tal Salt Ball com company ny to the Ne News yea Pl tey But that does dOlI riot not Imply that groat At have attended tb the gathering of the crop for the tb con i a teary I II true tru AAd right here continued the I went to deny once ance and for uN ale the hI story torr that th there re ha I keen beta a big advance In tb the price of salt 1 or Oe that or hat has lIuI bein d by br what hilt le II Iowa a tM the Halt Trust r u I I There I Is no truth In either statement m nt Aa I to prices they have not i 6 cents per gar hundred weight In ht Inthe the last four rea years MI We manufacture dx grades of salt It viz 11 table dalr dairy No 1 ro No 3 2 ro No 3 and half ground We sell U whole Al a nv five pound bag at ati i 6 or IL a hundred pounds at thus thul the product a uniform rate ot of 1 cent B a pound The coarser kinds are used uNd for ores we till 11 at SUO per ton Ion and art are making 1 for tor tone At that rate ral We are only lorr sorry that we cannot tn In Int t crease creale the number ot of tons to A citation of Ih these ae facts alone should hould convince the noel skeptical that we weare weare are not makin a fortune out of the business The truth ot of the matter I le that we have been selling JellIng salt at ruin low prices We have been com coin compelled polled to do so 10 In order to preserve our A As an illustration Th The Liverpool sail It had the right ot of otway way throughout the great Northwest country with Portland Tacoma and Seattle eattle n as principal distributing points point until the recent past lUIt when we entered the neld feld ant and drove droe It out ether with the product from Utah nut But to In order to do 0 so au we were forced to sell II at the very err narrow margin of U cents per ton profit I do not think anyone any one will claim that there Is much money In that Still such Buch lore ciOli com coin competition petition IU a that hAs made It pose JOlt albie for us UI to k keep p our plant going i when hen we e would have otherwise been biell obliged d to 10 close It II down You see He It colts COlt no more to run a plant ten hours hour houra a da day than It doe doel nv five Continual oper atlon has dune done the seine lam for tor u us In other directions and Ind now w we are selling salt all over the tho country from Seattle to Grand Island Nebraska As AI to trust organisation and advance or of prices something In that direction wu war done In but as al I ha eve Stated already read y nothing Will wag done In Utah On the coat coast a combine was wall formed and prices prien advanced about ten per pel not lIot much more than that The fact le II that wit nit re are arf pretty prett much In the same condition In California that WI we art are here The most of oC their product le I made In the ba bay near San Ean Francisco And as there thul I is an un limited ocean shore an unlimited amount of oC salt could be produce by anyone any one having hIng the facilities juat III as anyone Anone can make salt In Utah on ac account account count of there beIng tIO eo many man ties and the they would do It II too If Ie any Iny attempt were made to force prices be beyond yond ond a certain point Asked Asbel all as to what the yield had been for tor the year rear Colonel Clayton Clarton replied That is hard to 18 say We have hae shipped about tons and have about tons on hand l we IX extend tend our field or of sales that will ut lut us UI three years farB The truth Is II we have so 10 much salt plied piled up now noYl that we may mar not harvest any at all next year ar When questioned about the lake hav havIng tag Ing receded so 10 much of late the colonel said We have bave no tear fear that It will ill con to go back and aud lowering of the water comes and glees In cycle It Is II not a as low now u AI It has wen been In Inthe inthe the put pat an and l It will ri rise again The lake lak may mar some time but It will lie he In future In your day or mine Wf We have Jue worth or of IP hal Ital tied up In our salt nIt business ant and no fears teAra of the depreciation of our stock lock stockby by reason of the lake re receding That I le the smallest of our woes Utah has haa salt It enough to 10 supply the world and will hold tier her own for tor a long lone time to come Colonel Clayton Claton takes takee some pride In Ike tact fatt that he le III one ot of the pioneer alt men of this State Said he I bull built Ih thA ocr ever erected In 1 th and think I kno know something of af the th n n q We have haP An and when Mr White ot of the National Salt Trust ot of America was a here a short hort time ago he looked over oer our works and pronounced them the beet It In the United States Stales Ire He Will was very much surprised at their excellence and knew ot of no other that could equal them It was wag Oil on that ocCAsion that a sensational newspaper sprung the story that our company had been absorbed by the Trust I have hae already denied the truth ot of the report and need on only add that hi hie visit was wal simply a friendly one And IId In conclusion I 1 desire only to M gay that there can be no great In 1 crease or of prices price In salt It either here hert or orIn In California for the reason that if Ie such uch an undertaking were ere attempted It would quickly fall When Ih the Liverpool salt nit which would flood our market watt started this way IY Whatever the salt people and company here ma may do no noone noone one will say that they are able to ex elude the Liverpool product or control or even enn regulate the price thereof Tho mot moat we have hae been able to do is II to keep It out of the market not b by selling a fancy fanc but b by cutting under them a as I have shown u |
