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Show UTAH'S ALUNITE FIELDS. "Germany's boast that she will win the war if for no other reaso'-tjian reaso'-tjian her monopoly on the potash supply of the world was evidently made without full knowledge of the potash deposits in Marysvale, Utah district," said W. P. Funk, manager of the American Metals corporation who was in Salt Lake City last week. "There is potash enough in sight in Marysvale to last the allied nations na-tions for hundreds of years," he continued. "These Utah beds form the only deposits in the world that are equal in extent and quality to the great German deposits in A-sace A-sace and Lorraine. "I want to deny a statement that has been made to the effect that the Utah potash ore is not soluble. It is soluble. It is" true that it re quires roasting, but that is also the case with much of the German pot- i ash. When our crop, the sugar 1 cane crop, and many others were cut down for the same reason. A man from Hawaii told me the other day that the sugar plantations there were facing a shortage in the manufacture manu-facture of commercial fertilizer, and that is the use to which most potash is devoted. "Shortage of potash cost eight cotton states $300,000,000 last year. "I doubt if twenty tons of potash could be bought on the open niarkel in the United States today, and ynt there is no man alive who could estimate esti-mate the millions of tons awaiting to be mined in the Marysvale district dis-trict of Utah. It is only a matter of getting capital interested in development. de-velopment. "Our company and other companies compan-ies are developing what they can but the field is so vast that there Is opportunity for many other com panies to come in. They must come in if the district is developed up to producing the potash tha must "be mined to insure the crops of the nation. "Alunite is the name of the )r ash ore we mine, and it carries aluminum, alum-inum, potash, and sulphuric acid, all three most valuable elements and most necessary to the prosecution of the war. x "Potash is used in the manufacture manufac-ture of .munitions, glass, matches baking powder, soap, dyestuffs and drugs, and it Is also used in ref-erating, ref-erating, electroplating, bleaching, weaving, and photography. Before the war it was sold for $30 a ton Now it brings about $450 a ton." Mining Review. |