Show Phosphate of Vernal Area To Ge Get Survey Phosphate Deposits Of Vernal Claimed to be Most Important in NatIon May Prove Thriving In Industry Just when the development of thel the Intermountain states vast beds of rock phosphate will begin Is likely to be determined by an impressive group of state and government of- of officials of officials who are making a three 1 week three week survey of Utah Idaho Wyo-I Wyo Wyo Wyoming ming and Montana phosphate areas and who will compare their I notes October 8 and 9 at an open conference at Pocatello Ida Dr DrI I Harry Curtis who Is Ls In charge ot of the phosphate development In the touted Tennessee valley vailey Is in charge of the government I Instituted I study and hurvey With him will be Secretary of Agriculture I Henry A Wallace Dr Henry G a Knight chief U IT S Bureau of chemistry Dr A E Morgan 1 chairman TV TVA A Utah s repress ita ita tive President E E G 0 Peterson of representatives of the oth- oth other other oth other er three states Involved and sev- sev several severa sev several era eral others The survey Is being undertaken t 3 tt determine the water Vater po we r awl arid transportation facilities of the phosphate areas and to evolve ohe a sensible and practicable plan for development of the vast resources significance Phosphate has International sig- sig significance sig significance because became It Is one of three essential plant foods without depleted farm lands of the world cannot be restored to fertility or even maintained In suitable pro pro pro- productivity Right now It is report report- reported reported reported ed hundreds of thousands of acres In the middle west need neej fertilizing It Is also aIso an Import import- Important important important ant constituent of certain types of high grade steel and of everyday matches The western phosphate field which reports claim contains 87 per cent of the U V S supply cen centers cen- cen centers centers In southeastern Idaho near Soda Springs continues across the Wyoming line and into Utah where outcroppingS outcropping'S occur at several points in the Uintah mountains Most Im Important im- im important of the Utah deposits ap appear ap- ap appear pear to be those north of Vernal in the Park City area and some in the Crawford mountains The vestern beds are estimated to con contain con con- contain tam tain five fhe and one one half half bU- bU bUlion bElion bil billion lion long tons Florida Tennessee Arkansas South Carolina and Kentucky contain the other rec- rec recognized rec recognized major deposits In this country It Is estimated that the United States holds nearly half of or the phosphate of the world with the intermountain area holding nearly a third Present we western tern production tion Is relatively Insignificant due Continued on page four tour OF ERNAL I AREA ARA TO GET SUR d Tc nom Hon nave one I I 1 largely to transportation transportation problems I and the higher development de of the re resources sections In the older producing I esIt The survey surrey sill attempt to I es-I es- es establish t a policy polley regarding retarding the sast ast store of mineral and the approximately approximately two and one third million i acres of land v which contains it In inthe lithe the four tour states There Is also a i po station possibility that an experiment sta- sta tt tion I tion win will be erected to determine costs and nd methods of at commercially I utilizing the phosphate I In Utah the party arty will visit the alunite deposits near Marysvale the coal mines of Carbon county the th smelters smelter near Salt Lake City the extensive deposits north of ot Vernal and those near Park City and In the Crawford mountains According A to President Peterson Governor Blood s representative e inthe in inthe inthe the survey surrey the development of the Phosphate deposits will some day d provide an Industry whim will outrank cut cut- rank In size all others In the Inter inter- intermountain intermountain mountain area |