Show big potash discovery made in iron county ali i hout doubt the biggest nun min ing excitement iron county ha has e ex Denen ced since the discovery of oil in the vicinity of N irgin city ro re cited this week when it was nas learn ed that extensive and high grade deposits of potassium chloride had been disordered discovered and were nere N ere being lo 10 bated in the mountains adjacent to parowan carowan ft A later developed that a number of cedar city people hae have been working away quietly for several weeks past and had a man an in the hills locating the best of ground for them and nothing was known or thought of the maneuvers until the unusual unus sual numbers of location notices begun to find their way into the ottice office of the county recorder when the excitement broke out in the mean time tests have been made estimates formed of the extent and value ot of the deposits and gions are even under way for their sale to an outside company the names appearing on oil most of tie tle location notices are wm win 11 II corry H W V lunt Gro parry E AT corry and II 11 H lunt these locations cover a large ledge varying in thickness s from a few feet up to feet in thick thickness nesi and ex tending riding te from little creek canyon on the north to the summit moun bains on the south and is estimated to contain millions of dollars worth of the product at the existing prices mr 0 neil eil has been doing most of the locating and is also interested in the deposits recent reports from are to the elifet eaf ct the deop people e of that place have discovered and located another rich ledge of the valuable substance half a mile or so higher up in the mountains it all the reports circulating are entitled to credence cre dance there is no farther necessity of going to ger many for potash nor for the farms f the eastern states going hoit of this important mineral salt those who have secured good lo 10 are very jubilant and fee feel that a i fortune is already within their grasp and it is now only a question as to which of the ex pensive makes ot of cars they v buy in the mean time it is said that the hills are full of amateur pro spec specters tors and that the recorder s of fice flee is being deluged with location notices the values are said to range from 10 to 30 00 per cent potash and a the foundation ia ia soft sandstone it is said to be only necessary t emerae th tha material in water when the pta th goes into solution leav eav ing the sand and other material materia according to the figures co campil pil ed the average run of the v vein n is worth 42 per ton delivered on the railroad at lund it is predicted el I 1 that there in will ill be li I 1 mining boom boon on within 80 30 days which will eclipse anything that this section of country has ever known iron county record |