Beaver County News | 1917-08-17 | Page 3 | New Potash Find

NEW POTASH FIND A valuable, discovery of potash salts, apparently as high quality as . the German salts, has been made in Africa in Abyssinia, about 45 miles inland from the Red Sea. The discovery dis-covery in fact was made before the war but because of the desert nature na-ture of the country, its intense heat and difficulty o operation It was not worked until the war cut off German Ger-man supplies. This mine is now producing and substantial tonnages of potash hitYe been sold in Italy for as high as $193 per ton. A railway has been built from the seacoast and it is estimated that 7000 tons monthly month-ly can be made with present facilities. The potash costs more to produce than German potash cost in the days before the war. There has also been great difficulty in" getting steamer space to carry the potash to Europe, so that stocks have piled up awaiting await-ing transportation. Mining Record.