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Show A REVOLUTION -IN SALT MAKING James Hodgkinson of Salford has sold for $5,000,000 the American rights of a new revolutionize the whole salt industry A telegram reached him from an agent in the United States on Saturday Baying: "Sold American xights to strong American-Canadian syndicate. Terms, $5,000,000 and royaltj." Tho inventor is a Salford merchant, head of the firm of James Hodgkinson Hodgkin-son (Salford), Limited, makers of mechanical me-chanical stokers- and economizers. The invention, besides making Mg. Hodgkinson a millionaire, will have the effect, it is said, of cheapening salt to users throughout the world The manner in which Mr. Hodgkinson Hodgkin-son conce.ved the idea of his patent is interesting. Four years ago he was engaged in the coures of his business on the plant at the Norwich Salt Works and he then formed, the opinion opin-ion that there was room for vast Improvements Im-provements in the salt-making process. pro-cess. Ho went home and labored at the scheme for four years, until it has at last borne fruit "My idea was scouted at first," he said. "What do you know of tho salt industry?" I was asked. But I kept pegging away, and now r am as certain cer-tain as it is possible to be of the success suc-cess of my Inventino " Mr. Hodgkinson's plant consists of three covered and four uncovered pans, all heated from one fire, instead of from seven, 'as at present. This fire is regulated by tho Hodgkinson patent stoker to insure automatically a uniform temperature He can so regulate reg-ulate the Intensity of the fire by draft control that he can produce all varieties va-rieties of salt and all sizes of crystal simultaneously by the one fire As examples Hodgkinson produced four boxes containing difforent kinds of salt produced in this way Tn the first pan, heated at a uniform terapcr-aturo terapcr-aturo of anything up to 1S00 degrees, than nny pervlouslv made No grlnd-a grlnd-a table salt salt was produced by a process of pure crystallization fner ing or further treatment was necessary,, neces-sary,, From the first pan the waste gases and steam qre carried undor-neath undor-neath the other pans by a draft system, sy-stem, and the heat is regulated and |