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Show Great Western Salt Company Adding to Plant ....... ... 'v-V'' ' '' - ' ' .-v.' , " ' tW - 4 a Photos furmshed through courtesy of Western Mineral Survey- - View of plant, three miles northeast of Salina, where the Great Western West-ern Salt Company makes its salt for stock-feeding. Three large buildings are to be erected to house modern machinery for the manufacture of table and dairy salt from crystal cler.r brina from lakes and springs. The picture below shows how the rock salt is loaded for shipment. rnnnrom nu rutty Kino nn u;,.j i . Opening Up of Great Coal Resources of Salina Canyon Stimulate Activity at Sevier's Sodium Chloride Deposit i concrete curing bins on the third I floor, where the moisture is allowed j to drain through a latticed floor. ' Prom the curing bin, the salt will be conveyed to an oil-fired rotary kiln dryer 60 feet long and 5 feet in : diameter,, lined with baffles. In this kiln practically all of the moisture is. removed, after which the salt is i elevated and put through a series of j screens, graded and dropped to the weighing and packing room on the second floor. The grade of the salt is controlled by the height to which the temperature tempera-ture of the solution in the grainer tanks is raised the higher the temperature, tem-perature, the finer the grains of salt. Three miles of pipe line is being built by the company to convey fresh water to the plant for the boiler, culinary and other purposes. The dairy and table salt operations I of the company will in no way inter-! fere with the company's quarrying of rock salt and manufacturing it into j a stock feeding product. The Salina ; Sun. I I Operations at the Great Western Salt company, for the expansion of its present plant, is to be started at an early date, according to the Western Wes-tern Mineral Survey, Utah's leading mining journal. Last week's issue of the Mineral Survey had an extensive illustrated article on plans, as announced an-nounced by the officers at headquarters headquar-ters at Salt Lake. The article, comprehensive compre-hensive to the improvement plan, follows: fol-lows: Preparations are being made by the Great Western Salt company to install the modern grainter salt evaporation evap-oration system at its Salina plant. The plant has been drawn, concrete foundations foun-dations are being put in and practically practical-ly all of the material and machinery has been purchased or is being made preparatory to shipment. By April tli3 company plans to have its plant ready for operation. The launching of this enterprise illustrates il-lustrates how the development of one resource in a new country develops another. For some time the Great Western Salt company has wanted to start the manufacture of table and dairy salt, an operation favored by the possession of remarkable natural I of salt and valuable food minerals, the Great Western Salt company product has found a market as far north as British Columbia and Alberta, as far east as the Dakotas, as far west as California, and as far south as New Mexico. A market of considerable potentiality potential-ity exists in this intermountain country coun-try for high grade dairy and table salt. For the making of butter, cheese, sausage and other meat products, and . bakery goods, only the purest sodium, chloride can be used. Any impurity results in an inferior product not acceptable ac-ceptable to the trade. Practically all of the dairy and table salt consumed in this territory comes from Michigan and New York, where deep wells are drilled to the salt belts, water pumped pump-ed down to the deposit and pumped again to the surface and filtered by expensive equipment before the final j treatment. j j The Great Western Salt company! ; has a practically inexhaustible supply! I of brine of crystal clear quality from which the purest salt can be made, i This brine can be derived from the ! numerous salt springs, lakes and ca-j ca-j verns that exist on the property. One facilities with the exception of a cheap supply of good fuel. This serious handicap has recently recent-ly been removed by the opening of a vast deposit of high grade bituminous coal by the Sevier Valley Coal company, com-pany, financed by Richfield and Sevier Sev-ier county men. Following the pioneering work of the Sevier Valley Coal company, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Rail-road spent over a million dollars in building a branch line to the Salina canyon coal deposits, so that now the Great Western Salt company has at its back door a vast supply of cheap fuel, one of the prime requisites in the manufacture of table and dairy salt. The Salina salt deposit in Sevier county is one of the most famous in the west. First visited by Father Es-calante Es-calante in 177C, it became the stocking stock-ing up place of Fremont, the explorer, explor-er, and all of the early pioneers who needed to replenish their stores of salt. For years before the Great Western Wes-tern Salt company started its operations, opera-tions, the deposit was productive. In the main, the Grcut Western Salt company has confined its operates oper-ates to mining and manufacturing salt for stock feeding purposes. In this field the Salina deposit has few, if any, rivals, according to Manager Earl S. Wright, for the salt, in addition addi-tion to its sodium chloride content, contains many other minerals valuable valu-able for the building of bone and tissue, tis-sue, among which are listed iodine, iron, calcium and phosphorous. Because of this unique combination well, dr. lied by the early pioneers torj a sink hole to drain a quarry, spouts ! ( a continuous stream of clear brine, j Other wells, like this one, can be de-! de-! vcloped and other large supplies of brine created by piping pure water I to the property and emptying it into j the quarries. j To provide manufacturing facilities I for this type of brine, the company j is erecting four new concrete and lumber structures adjoining its old plant where the "stock feeding" salt : is crushed, screened and pressed into bricks. I One of these will be a boiler house 30x !S feet; two grainer houses, 50x76 feet, and one three-story warehouse,! 50x95x75 feet high. At the head ofj j the boiler house a concrete depressed I coal pit hns Ken built, into which 100 tons of coal at a time can be dumped diictly from the railroad cars, on the coin) any's standard guage j branch line. Two 150 h. p. boilers with .Tones automatic stokers will be in-1 stalled to supply steam for the grainer grain-er process. ! The brine will be conducted by iron 1 pipes to a pre-heating tank Sx40x2 feet deep, in the grainer house, where it will be heated to near the boiling point. Like the pre-heating tank, the: two grainer tanks Ifix70x2 feep deep! ; will be lined with steam-pipes. As j the water evaporates in these tanks j the salt crystals drop to the bottom I of the tank. An automatic rake scrapes i the salt off the bottom of the tank j up into a conveyor belt 100 feet long by 2 feet wide. 1 The wet salt will be conveyed to the |