Show Hurdles in Local Potash Production Include Marketing and Freight Charges Final marketing negotiations and the fixing of freight rates rates' seem to be the only roadblocks remaining in the development of vast potash deposits In the Moab i area by Taylor Delhi Oil com pany pony Plans Pians for the construction of a 20 million dollar mine and mill which would employ over men nten are apparently complete pending the final marketing negotiations negotiations ne ne- ne and fixing of the freight rate according to late re reo re- ports The Texas company has been doing Development work on the potash deposits In the area adjacent adjacent adjacent ad ad- jacent to Moab for some time However until only the past year efforts were centralized on the Seven-Mile Seven area west of town It appears now that greater deposits of the mineral have been discovered discovered dis dis- dis covered on the Cane Creek dome and that is the place where the mine and mill will be he t located When built I IThe I IThe The project which is thought by many to be one of the greatest I bright spots in the future of Moab has received wide publicity from various sources during the past week or two However at this stage it appears that even though the company Is ready to togo togo togo go ahead with plans for the be- be I ginning of construction the time depends wholly upon when marketing mar and shipping negotiations can be completed In a report to the Salt Lake LakeI I Tribune last week by Robert Bernick Ber Ber- nick Tribune business editor It Was vas stated that the company would begin construction this year on their mine on Cane Creek dome some twenty miles down down- river from Moab with a mill to tobe tobe tobe be built on the Big Flat Fiat overlooking overlooking over over- looking the river canyon Reports Indicate however that the mill will be built alongside the mine mineshaft mineshaft shaft on the Cane Creek structure structure ture and the finished product taken to the canyon rim by means of ot a conveyor belt where It will be shipped by rail to a point Int along the Denver Rio Grande main rail line probably in the vicinity of ot Crescent Junction or Thomp son The proposed mill would be capable of processing some tons of ore per day Whether or not the unit would be run to capacity is another question Under the proposed plan Delhi Delhi- Taylor would mine Its ore from froma a deep shaft around feet teet deep The problem according to Dr Elton Is for Taylor Delhi to get a freight rate that would allow them to compete with other producers of potash in ln the U. U S. S Carlsbad New Mexico Is the largest producer of potash In the U. U S. S is project manager for tor Delhi DeIhl Marketing of Potash has also been a problem during the past year Vear due to shipments of the mineral minerai used mainly for fertilizer fertilizer fertil fertil- izer from East Germany and from tram new discoveries in Canada Also the reduced use of fertilizer fertilizer fertilizer lizer due to the farm bank program program program pro pro- gram has placed a stock-pile stock situation sit sit- on the potash market However it appears that if It a freight rate can be arrived d at at ores from the Moab deposits can cart be marketed profitably Taylor Delhi has been doing extensive extensive extensive ex ex- ex- ex core drilling work on the the- property on the Cane Creek dome It Is reported that the ore there Is much richer and thicker than that originally being figured on at Seven |