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Show r'f' 4 4 SECTION . FOUR DESERET EVENING NEWS SATUmyy MA 2o 1918 INCREASING OUR FOOD SUPPLY ... - -- From Great Salt Lake Is Being Taken An Element That WiH Help t'ncle Sam to Feed the World New Things in Fertilizers Which Will Make America Independent Potaslf From Cement Mills and Blast Furnaces Versus the Mines of the Kaiser Important Intentions Which Will Greatly Increase ... How American Army of Industrial Chemists Is Fighting the Germans. Written for the Saturday News by Frank G. Carpenter. W-- lAUi )AL r- tor md- - nad. rary pie. lone lao ugh (Sen and in In i inp, red rat-ra- te tent 1 and renr bv red ual , in of he r. lf k "i.. valuable stuff is an clement is scattered through almost everything all over the earth, bat usually in such small quantities and in such combinations that It is not possible to get it out at a profit. Potash is found in the soli and in certain rocks. There is more of it In the crust of the earth than there is water upon the earth. It is found in sea water The oceans have so much potash that if it could all be taken out and spread over, the United State it would cover this 'whole, country with a bed of If vou solid potash 10 feet deep could surround Maseaeluhtts with a mites-bigtight fence six or eight would h fill and that pour that salt in, it mighty bin and leave billions of tons of potash to spare. It is potash of that kind which we are Irving to save on the California from roast. The aeaweed grabs the potash Into itself to such an extent that some kinds of dried kelp have 50fl pounds of pure potash to the too There is potash in most kinds of plant life and especially In hard woods of one kind or another. W get It by burning those woods to ashes, and at pnceguch ashes have ha come exceedingly valuable They are now worth about 75 cents 'a bushel, and a single coal scuttle will contain worth a dime salts -Much of our common graphite contains per cent of potash and we have feldspars which have I or 12 per cent while in the keucit hills of Wyopiing empty watermelon. From this float ffi&inilc leaves spread out over the water in eery direction. foverin the surface like s field of pond lilies end sometime impeding navigation. This plant is known as kelp. It feeds upon the water and absorbs the potash When the paints are taken out and of their condried about tents is chloride of potash The department of agriculture has miles surveyed several hundred square of these kelp fields off the --coast of Cal'forma and the bureau of sobs has ere led an experimental p, ant at Sum menand to determine the best method of harvesting the kep and exThree or four tracting the potash large companies have been formed of whuh hate turned out a product of potash during jeverai thousandUnetons these Her ymmr at jthuls Fowdes company. whoee plant I tone of wet kep hah a upaciiv of and another, Hwift 6- Co. per da hips its product to its Jerulix- - THIS one-four- th e i , ji r- -i fi i-U:rf I i 'of potash from the kelp fields has ppomcd the operators. 3'jm(' a - 1 hprsni pnv-ipuatn- one-ha- voU-am- v ' m n ,Vhf'; e 'in - j eu- - any up- - for Ira- rma low and kin Ad- - ' ''' ar , ren-- the CoUr.il proreie - --xi ro working at Uncle barn's experimen--la- l laboratory on the Arlingtoj. farm." The plant consists of a senes of concrete pipes which extend to the height of a five or six story or hopper Into this hopper tha dust from the cement flues is drawn. It is now almost a gas and many, of the particles are so fine they cannot be seen. They go from the hoppt-- r into the pipes and are there precipitated by means of an intense elecknc current which is carried through ear it a wire as fine as a sewing Pine,' hy Ml to equip the average cement fac-- , tor with th process, and ail the might- - hewn-"- " plants of the cemntrv If the plied at a cost of 1 10.900, iFMtailation of such a system would furnish half of our potash supply, and make use independent of Germany, it might pay the government to material assistance toward its installation. 0. 1 hoht s I AT ?rt aa, r n nawou'dIiTrfloT had-wsa- lv t ! I rann.esCTnTebsr:eare.r; i of lf t t y the-roc- ks HA K V ,de-dus- I in. more-mone- -- ou,rn -- i die- - tolai toss dt potash in tha kilns waat more thatuli.MvO poupds every Axy.i The saving by this new process was so great that at the high prices brought about by the war the . potash of the plant promised to br i.g in even thaa the cement ItaeJf The process waa introduced m 1913 and since then a large amount of potash ha been saved. The beeur-kt- y Lime and Cement plant near Hagerstown. Md., has recently installed the Cottrell process snd xs saving almost Odd pounds 'of potash a day. There is more potash in some of used for making Portland cement than in others The bureau of soils has analyzed the materials used m the hundred or more cement plants of the country and k finds that every one of them i losing thousand of pounds of potash a- day, and that man) have losses which amount to from a to 15 tons every 24 hours. pis I i l1 ' Crops qf AD Kinds. stor of fhe potash w are from our gutting as a ndlls'and iron ore furnaces U more gra'lOmfc In fact, U so en- ihat the experts believe that lounging if a1 our cement nulls were equipped a th h product plants they Could anabout 130.000.000 nua, iv save mere than SO 000 tons o ( pold-- h and that, aith a slight change A BOTH Sc a (Kcfp) From Whir Potash I Sorured r The I niro!l soon as war waa declared the VClik h Cave rorrmie- - rf op, ration this amount m ght be so Tn-OB KITW f Crmrnt Where Three Plant Maryland Nearly nrrca.pd that Itaould equal . prices rose to the clouds. In 1914 thera-ar!'nn llne- - ium.. or (he supply- - ae'liaVFBeen Importing Potash is bared Daily. 'mcrtste oUpotasH WaiT Benfne'fot'JT9 rock ewhich analyzes from S to II per from Germany This potash would a ton. It doubled and quadrupled in There is so much of that millions of years ago The German creasing cent froiq the Due dust tshirh has There are ,aO lakes In trfe sandhills tome value, and by December, 191 S. it was rock potash. of our scientists, say that hee'n the in experts awareTtm'-frthat floatl. . sight Take first the pota-re gcitiiig ot ooiu hwMierrr Nebraska In ahith part of the country ISO per ton. Then lnce Ham began geological survey have estimated It to was then a the rhimmss of the cement lake which was con- fromTfalt lakes where th. n.mtral mills ..u .u greatT" to set up and take notice. He bad bad contain a quarter of a billion nected with great pra'rie and poisoning much of the vegetation the sea hy shallow chan- being formed In mint) the - rre WJV forest fire. of !w his chemical and mining experts at tons of nearly That are to be would past enough 'supposed c , nels about it .. from deix-potash conies materials that through which the water came at that the great work before the war began. He now to last this whole country 1,000 years, the time of storms and high tides were laid down d, J" d , H most mills are still going to waste A n n , j ,.rniany mo- added to the force, and since then we at our-rat-e -- "d of consumption when war There was no outlet to the lake and hose feret would .aOU' T'Z , greatly bet- saving have been taking potash out of certain was declared. What we need is some the torrid climate T, f. of that agg dried ,h!f ';ke are 8 ter the condittons nearby UutaUMs has salt lakes of our western deserts, out cheap to get the stuff out. so the water more f1!5process orwrtn of 3 fart. that Tim the Invested hi?h rapidly unLr J 00 Ooo Iready great of 'the flue dust of our cement 'mills 0f 7a".d 1for ties of salts were deft. As thequantiv,n th!l pot-a- h earae inventory from the water th ret out the potash h rh iu m the muii hnn't U?fld and blasts furnaces, and from the seaCk ERMANT has the only big potash became heavy the rock salt which was brine don under a bed of mi u .nd i7a' mman salts orange trees hyiQ,NK ,he tar ,h Cottrell process weed which grows in great quantities least has been applied also to having sre situ the soluble dust a from cement I to have earth. r the bottom line salt. They mines upon They an dropped If tJ2 1 plart at Riv-- i in the waters off the California coast. later on the more soluble salts be- orator house made of re.lip which Is ThU the potash in the flue dust from tbs The government is investigating cer- ated In Prussia, snd th best of thorn and to w Ki'de hen 4l,rrniaa .ves iv evaporeted fall so that we have first layers more than 100 feet h rh. has boilersllJia,"!.. Cement iron blast furnaces The Bethlehem making tain rocks of the United States which aro under s town named Stassfurt on gan nT i oncrete rock salt and lime with potash on of 2.000 horsepower fror I t pmai company was the first to expert sever?conr ! iT hY qu'intltie- - f nd are rich in potash, and tha greensands th Rode 'river, s branch of the Elbe, of of them. After sl.oi Is top which that the had earth I chimney itf vaiio Mvini; 7 r" s H ns found along the coastal plain of tha Atlantic hundreds of mile from where they another change and a bed of lm - j that it could ownorthari8 as that their tail the Washington pervimonument and nearby ret $39,000 per annum-o- r which contain the same salt. In short, aro fighting in France. The mines ous are now producing a large part our,er brought damar uit after damage! from the poUh clay covered the top of theae bed from one furnace. the results of our investigations are were discovered abouf 49 years ago of salts This such that we expect to be able to make Tteo Imperial government have- - remained The i there unul but they i yearr" 7 .upnotthtakeoranIn all grove. ourselves Independent or other na- property there, and ft was makinr wit DOW salts Great Salt Lake One company la of the It Ja estimated that 19 rounds of adjoining as concerned as for far potash jx tions from the brine of the springs and wells The potash Is mined Just like rpek ready erect, ng a plan there and an- - ,emt ory ,nd they fmally sent for potash n be Mved all time to come. Then of that neighborhood. Other of large capital is expeg ed to Mr F. O. Cottrell, who U now the if iron that come borings salt. Shafts are run down into the from 7h,7uacS! were sunk to discover rock salt, and Strata and tunnels off Into the on'PaB ' chief beds. whose solid are about 7 per cent pot- - d0 : k of the bureau of If this is correct, the 35.00 000 tons first let me tell you something great quantities were found about s The from the liquor mines metallurgist rt Lhe ,Tt7 is blasted of the geological survey and we down with will soon be reducing this potash ash. BUT dynaThey smelt mean a savwould annually surface. the ft on electric ears to the brine at th rate of 2t Ono ooo th, common aalt haa potash. I have been talk- quarter of a mile below wers mite him to experiment on getting ing of 950 000 000 pounds or 125.004 gallons, wparatod ThT ar working on beenaked beds of shaftsearned top of th salt the and taken to the of surface. Some the a nd and from duet. He that outthe succeeded ing with the experts of the bureau of Upon the in day. tons of potash potash, which added to the which were Of it is shipped as kainlt or raw salt . mines and those of the experimental potash and magnesium, and 10 000 tons that might be had from pot will be in the neighborhood of 500 !sam Principle as the Spaniards, who doing so hy means of ue The mine. as It comes be of no from the mine, the rest Is tons. The ehwf trouble is the large are trying to get potash out of the upon examination foundelectricity, il. on were firstto worked the dust our cement milU would make us praclaboratory of the bureau of that it aalt and for th boiled and the Arlington farm. At the latter was forming the percentage of other salts which are sea. They first take out the salt and contained a largo amount of potash, tically independent of Germany. This later that th value of the potash concentrated evaporated, aalta and also the pure mixed with the potash These must then run the liquor which is left Into which could be oaaily saved He is by the saving only of what until place they are using processes simidiscovered. Now the potash is potash such as is used in medicines, lar to those recently adopted in the be refined This Us to be done at Han tanks for further evaporation. The found that more than two pounds of r nw haa floated It and la mined 'product etc. The processes of min- Pedro, not far from Los Angeles Fu- final salts contain about 12 per cent potash were lost in making each bar- told that even ataway on the air I am cement plants of the country. We all the principalStaasfurt. the normal of but at a number dyestuffs, and reduction are bo cheap that ture additions to the works ing know something about pure potash as not only at will prob- I of potash. This cornea from the waters rel of cement and that thi waa car- potash this cnuM te done at prices Gera profit. of wa ahall probably have to put a tariff ably increase the total investment place in that pact which have ried away in the duet of tha fluee. The a drug. We use chloride of potash to of otherThere of th Mediterranean to In G. 900 FRANK CARPENTER. mine are about on potash or irs bounties to our man- - more than II 000.000 more aalta in them than the oceans gargle our throats, caustic potash to many. iamllllon of nfacturera 1 for some time before they take away warts, and bromide of operation, and the output themselves , ' I will be able to compete with the Owen t potash to put us to sleep when our ton1 per year.talked with a mining . , California lake, , , they recently nerves are excited. Home of us need m s ND " r" the German mine 0 preparing to get out potash A Held lltx powders, another potash com- ,h Paclnc OCMn whirh prior to the war. He tells me that t a ND now let me show you what we by a new method, without the employ pound.when we wake up. Perman- Just to ',,her hy roean of German government f the head of j Sam pr0'0 of ment ganate of potash is a disinfectant th artificial ar to do' ThU heat. lake ha create a potash aupwhich corArols the aupU a seaweed that grow This a largely used by the surgeons on the the syndicate plant of our own. as how much bitter as that of the Dead We had non when water kaiser dictate Just ply European battlefields, and cyanide of ply. The may be taken out every year th war broke out. W began to pro- sea. It contain salt, soda, borax and wild in the ocean. It is the largest plant potash potash Uf one of the moat active of and salines in solution. It is estl- - known, and It sometime run 100 feet countries the exports may duce in 1914 and during the first other what to poisons. go. He fixes the domestic and foreign months of last year wa made more mated to hold about 9,000,400 ton from where It attache Itself to a rock me The fact that Russian women formed expert potash than in the entire year pre- of potash, and a large part of this, by a root or holdfast- - It goes from tZS POSTs' to ceding The amount produced in 1917 will be gotten out by evaporating the j this anchorage in a flexible hollow regulxt ions 'thev U a U refiment called the "Battalion of 4 " to aVl waa about of what we were water In vats br the heat of the no. stem, which t much like a long aiick 'T co m rl'lm t ea' q 'the Kmed. Th.Utr outlet r kt , Dp porting from Germany, before the The lake has an area of 100 Vjuare of macaroni trt the high-tid- e surface which was the first regiment of f Death, war the production from miles and it Is about thirty feet of the ocean and there develops into kernels of our cereals. vC",KUit to ! thing like 95.000 men at work in the tverybegan, and source kind in the history of civilization, the la ina of small. mines. size principal and la Goat the rapidly deep. shape use large quantities of it for our potahas toes and other truck crops; we use It stirred up the question whether our for cotton, tobacco and oranges and J ABKED a to the source of this pot defrom obtained eould be dried have Invented method could a women peat form a line of defense for Japanese ash. The mining expert replied: also for peaches and all kinds of fruit for making coke dink briquettes for posits m that a ate. NEWEST NOTES OF "The deposits were probably, made crops. Just now the great Remand for Rusin States. the United on used machinery us in braziers, heating stoves and Betung SCIENCE sian oil fields is made of camels gas producers. Every woman's burdens in the war When a rope cr belt In mine la in hair, which resist grease better than GompBed For Bw .Deseret Ncwsl a new electrical rubber, cotton or leather. are danger ofbn-akinlightened when she turns to the Either one separately or both of tw device stops the machinery and sounds medicine. If her existence is filaments in a new incandescent lamp right Ecuador haa a tree producing ber- an alarm, ries which can be used an soap. The use of the vast deposit of sea- can be switched into circuit to regumade gloomy by the chronic weaknesses, of amount lighttbe late An eraser that is by a key weed tn the Haragoaaa sea to obtain an asU a new typewriter operated and painful disdelicate japan has built at Tokyo for attachment. supplies of potash Is being discussed tronomical derangements, size An Englishman ha invented a prac- by scientists. observatory that afflict will orders her that anything equal tical eelf starter for aeroplane motors. sex, she will find A motor truck body haa been Invent- and completeness State or Europe. UlaBtqrs of clove hung in room ed that will unload a load of bricks in tha United and relief cold emancipation from her For us on automobiles in and allowed to dry will drive away into an orderly pile without breakGie. weather a thermostat controlled shutDr. troubles in Pierces Favorite Pro a minute. within age inThe questions answered below are Argentina haa the A projecting lantern ha been in- ter shield for radiators has been railroad general in character, tha symptoms or mileage of any South greatest automatically. she's that vented If operates overworked, nervous, coun seription. American vented in Europe to enable a person diseases ar, given and tha answer will have compiled Italian scientists try. to copy a picture byhaad almost run-dow- n, apply in any case of similar nature finds new life and she or a corroborate A bellows iheory device to be attached to statistics that Tboee wishing further advice, free, occur at broom to eoUeet sweeping haa been well a by photography. sdlreaa Dr. Lewja Baker, a Minnesota geologist that more earthquake shock hours. a to invigorating powerful, According strength. than in the daylight liege-wood afreets, Dayton! invented. Ohio, enclosing from which a new lead French chemist make an artificial more than 4 000 000.00 ton of air night was and nervine tonic which discovered The paper stamped aid envelope for reply. 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Thanking ?4o; write out one particle of pain, soreness A Colorado woman haag.rbeen Scrap leather from eld shoes, mixed LTY1 STRAUSS acot Ihrmr afhcerry or and bound with grantslag with g ironic cough for almoat a wyear, and llmeatone Freezone irritation a ed patent upon doll made of flockOf is the saw roAfosca cal MH M T cold every werk (aiih a tfresbdoctor bitumen snd asphalt, ha been found ether discovery of a ing that have outlived their mysterious Texas give me bep, so Oraryo, road an Nothing hr effective building make to oilgi.,, .f usefulness Cirti nt. iiu.n genus. I rkt to- you nted Great L material In England. ( AS vh. lion 1 In ntljr American farmer? The think o. They believe that their pot Rah mine are the key to the food supply of the world and that when the war la over they can dictate which of the nation ahall have plenty of food and Which will go starving. , Pr. Wilheiiri Ostwald of the Univeraity of Leipzig and one of the Kaiser t privy councilors, recentjy warned the United States that America had gone into this war like a man with a rope about hia neck.' He said that rope was the potash in the hands of the Kaiser, and that It would surely be tightened after peace tame. 5 This threat might have created some consternation four yegrs ago. At the time the war broke out Germany had mine which were supposed to be of potash on the Only cheap supply earth. She had ' e monopoly of the world,' potash, and ahe kept of . all that she mined for-- her own farmers VVp.took more than half of the balahce. and our imports amount- d to several hundred thousand tons We Bought nt pure pola-- h a yea more than a million tons of the raw ill material as camp from the mine, and this annually cost our farmers one-ha- re- - and r it la Id the southern and eastern parts of the country. ASHIXGTON, P. 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