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Show M PHOSPHATE BEDS IN WEBER CANYON. H The Tennessee Copper company, with its smelting plant near H the Southern phosphate beds, is manufacturing u fertilizer by the H ' action of sulphuric acid on the phosphate rock. It is proposed by a H I Utah smelting company and a California copper concern to attempt H the manufacture of a similar fertilizer in the west. H At present the sulphurous fumes, which, if captured, would pro- H duce sulphuric acid, are lost through the great smokestacks of the H copper smelters. The Tennessee Copper company utilizes these fumes H ' and thereby accomplishes the double good of eliminating the dam- H age caused by sulphur fumes while making a marketable product. H . Tliere are extensive beds of phosphate rock in "Weber canyon, a H few miles east of Ogden, which are not within the boundaries of the H government's reserve and which could be utilized in the production H of a fertilizer, if one of the Utah copper smelters were to convert its Hi i fumes into sulphuric acid. H ( j The manufacture of this fertilizer is said to be a most profitable H i industry in the east and might be made equally as profitable in this H part of the west. |