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Show POTASH IN MOILAVE DESERT. Vast deposits of potash aro rumored ru-mored to have been found In California Cali-fornia enough to supply the 'United States probably for thirty years, so government scientists estimate. The potash was discovered in Searlca' lake, In tho Mohave desert, in San Bernardino county, Cal. Field men of the geological survey and tho bureau of soils estimate that the deposit de-posit may amount to 4,000,000 tons, but the authorities In Washington, from data In their possession, believe more than 10,000,000 tons, of potash Is available there. The great value of the find Is that tho product is In readily available commercial form. Most of tho potash known tq exist in many places in the United Stales Js not so. Similar dried up lakes containing valuable deposits. It Is believed by government gov-ernment officials, exist in the arid regions re-gions and will bo dlscovqrod. Tho government bureaus for some time had sought throughout the country coun-try for potash, feeling certain a supply would be found. At present tho United States and other nations are almost entirely dependent upon Germany for potash. If this report Is truof it is of great Importance to the whole Industrial and agricultural world. It will cut tho price of fertilizer in hajf and a big increase in-crease in crops will follow Its greater use by the farmers of America. |