Show NEW SALT SAtT WORKS REAllY READY V TO GRIND Clear Lake Company to lo Place Plant In Commission at Once COMPETE WITH MICHIGAN Will Produce Five Grades for Dairy and Packing Pu Purposes The Tho salt works o of the Clear L Lake ke Salt bait company COmpan is read ready to go o into oper oper- according to C. C D. D Hn Ray flay who re returned re- re turned to lo the cit city yesterday after a week occupied In helping get things in running condition The com company pan has installed a modern plant o of CO GO tons touts n a day capacity The Tho plant h bV courtesy y alone aIon I Is Is- ea called II I a a refinery for fOI the salt alt is per pCr cent pure ns as It t comes ComOs from the lake luke lied bed This It Is said I Is Is s th the tho hl highest hc t percentage of purity of or nn nib any crude salt known Ih Tho work vork to be he Ion h by the plant Is to grind and grade tho salt MIl The company owns about 2110 acres of lake lale bottom n which is a surface salt mine where nature does tho the aria aria- elpa cipal part of oC the thc mining During the wet geason eason the tho lake bed hell is covered with a rt 1 foot toot or 01 more of oC water tel In the tho dry Q season the lie Water evaporates C bayIng leaving bay leav ing on the hard hOl clay bottom a deposit o of the pure salt from four our to live five Inches in thickness Mine lIne cars run on movable mo tracks track are used in gathering gathering gathering gath gath- ering the salt crop crall and conveying it to tn the refinery on the lake hake shore The Tho Clear Lake company will not for tor the attempt to 10 Invade the market t with a specially sp prepared table salt It will it itself to grades Int in intended In- In t tended for dairy U use tise I and nail packing pur poses po-e The Thc salt all now no used u-ed tot for th tho these i purposes In Utah Ulah nUll and the he Intermountain Inter moun lain tain country countr comes mainly if it not en entirely en- en troll r from 1001 Michigan and costs the till users ulers about 40 10 a ton The rhe Clear Lake people are arC confident nl that they can successfully compete lt with tho the Eastern producers both hoth in quality and price |