Show Large Aluminum Plant Erected in Utah A huge and costly plant is being erected in Utah to produce alum alum- i- i num not from the heretofore commonly commonly com com- used bauxite but from clays lays Chemi Chemically ally certain clays nave the constituents of aluminum and this plant is being erected to separate those constituents from the mass of clay Many years ago when J. J A. A Melville Melville Mel Mel- ville was alive this matter was mentioned as a source here of clays adapted for that purpose but it was premature waiting a decade or more for science to catch up with sources of bauxite cut off attention attention attention at at- is now being turned to clays and the methods of ot extracting extracting extracting extract extract- ing aluminum from them We Ve may skim off the top soil of some of our best farms and have airplane bodies bodies hodies bo ho- dies made of the gumbo yet |