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Show SB ' SALT LAKE SALT PH ' No factory In the world has such a snowy "fill ' backyard and front yard as has the Inland Crys- 1 1 1 ' tal Salt company, manufacturers of Royal Crystal Q l Table salt and other grades of the product. In ''Wiiiiiiii iiiiii mil iiii,iiiiiiii mini imiiiiiiiiuiih,ii ijpyiiiiiigwpwwww'wnw-ftmnrirx''tMWMwiwj the center of an immense circle stands the plant, for all the world like a black spot In the center of a linen covered table. This shimmering expense, ex-pense, as level as a table top, comprises tho salt ponds. Into these ponds salt water is pumped to a depth of several inches and the ibrilliant 3G0-day-a-year sunshine of Utah comes into its own as an important factor in this vast industry. The salt water is allowed to evaporate for Beveral weeks and then the surface Ib skimmed, much after the fashion your mother used when she "skims" the top of the milk delivered early in the morning. This skimming is for the purpose of removing tho surface impurities after which the salt water is sluiced into other ponds for a continuation of the evaporation process. When the water has evaporated there. remains a layer of glistening salt in Its natural state. The process is continued contin-ued time after time until the layer has attained a considerable thickness over many acres of ponds. (Four or five months are required to secure se-cure the required depth of natural salt and then the "harvest" begins. After a fashion the salt is then handled just as so much soil. It is loaded into wheel-barrows, put into railroad cars and transported in its semi-mo'ist semi-mo'ist state to the refinery. There it is elevated and placed into the stock iblns from which it is automatically taken by worm-gear carriers into great drums or "driers" through which hot air Is forced under high pressure. This dries the product pro-duct and removes the impurities and foreign substances. sub-stances. Grinding machines to which it is again conveyed convey-ed automatically, reduce the produce from the irregular shaped crystals to six different standard sizes called table salt, dairy salt, meat salt, ice salt, rock salt and pickling salt. In the grinding process there accumulates a line powdered salt, called salt dust, which is collected by means of suction and compressed under tremendous hydraulic hydrau-lic pressure into salt blocks and sold for stock feeding. In the grinding process the various sizes of salt remain unsorted and the mixed sizes are conveyed to a series of selves or "strainers" which me chanically separate the product into its several grades. Still other machines automatically weigh the salt, pour it into bags of proper size and stitch tho tops of the bags. From the time that the water has b.:n pumped into the ponds until the finished product leaves the plans in sacks no human hand has touched the salt. The mechanical equipment of the Inland Crystal Crys-tal Salt company has no superior in the country. Absolute cleanliness Is the rule of the company SOME OF THE GREAT SALT PONDS OF THE INLAND CRYST; SALT COMPANY, SHOWING HUGH PILES OF SALT WHU HAVE BEEN GATHERED READY TO LOAD INTO CARS F( TRANSPORTATION TO THE REFINERY. THE CIRCULAR CI SHOWS WORKMEN WHEELING SALT FROM THE BIG SAl "SNOWDRIFTS." and the resultant product from a sanitary standpoint stand-point is scientifically perfect. Nine tons of salt per hour is handled during the harvest season, the plant operation 24 hours) a day. |