Show potash discovery in utah more valuable than gold mine claimed all Is not gold that slitter glitters nor to give the old saw a lees less cat cal application la to everything that alia falls to glitter valueless not so very long ions ago when men went a ventu vent utne ing to wrest wealth from na ture la in mineral form they bought sought gold silver or precious stones the combined production of these from the earth is now infinitesimal and unimportant when compared to the production ot of certain other mineral which have no glitter about them the combined output of the gold mines of 0 the world wouldn t pay the taxes ot of the oil Indus the oil decent glitter the new argonaut has well up on his list of possibilities potash a disagreeable smelling and tasting a substance with not a sparkie in a trainload of it and yet an quite as i valuable as gold and much dardr to find for many years germany possessed a of the potash supplies ot of a world which demanded potash ai as a necessity in agriculture as a fertilizer and in many manufacturing fac turing processes during the world war potash necessary in the production ot of explosive explosives was frenziedly searched for or and fought for by the warring nations its value Is no less great in the arts and crafts of peace than in the prosecution n 0 of warfare afe hence e the importance of the dib covery ot of a new now deposit ot of potash in the united states which bids air fair to rival the potash bed in germany in extent and recourse the drillers of a prospective oil well in sout southern bern utah nr near the line ot of the victory highway national memorial transcontinental motor coite penetrated between and 1000 feet of a soil formation in their search earch for oil all and then came tame along long a chemist who ho knew something about potash and alu grow curious about the lature ot of some of the ma aerial which was being balled bailed out of the oil well on analysis the salts through which the shaft bad had been driven were found to contain about 22 per cent of potash the famous german potash crude salts contained about 8 per cent of potash the drillings indicated an almost unlimited supply of the crude salts containing potash a far larger cupply than the deposits controlled by germany large corporations interested te lu in the production and distribution trib ution of potash are now verifying the estimates estl matee of taj the fint grit man to brotice the deposits ot of potash and nil Is likely to take a secondary place if it southern iou thern utah becomes the scena a of the laigast potash deposit in the world or even upon the north american continent |