Show Red Beds of Utah to Produce Potash for Farms of Whole US U S The red beds eds of ot Utah are now no bout to produce th lr commer- commer Ial potash potasa for tor fez ot o oha ithe the ha nations nation's farms If tile the Eagle com com- company uon on ot of o the Crescent and aM tho pany any in Grand county announced Intention ot oC California mean anything Rich beds of ot potash which have hac been searched for In Texas Neada Neada and else else- elsewhere elsewhere elsi Utah California Call Cornia Kansas where by t y the thc government go geo geo- geo geological ge logical survey for years year are arc now believed to exist In Grind county countr by the drill of tUG me Crescent company This Th was vas and Is 15 drilling for oil It haw has found oil and will engage In deeper development In Inthe Ithe the Ole meantime Its Us churning bits have eaten through a strata a of mineral palts so rich In potash u as to bo far fer superior to the tho de do- do posits of Germany bere they theare are ro mining mining- to a depth of ot ct t and still breaking It and shipping It and selling It In ITt this country at a II profit The agricultural world now knows the real value alue cf ct potash It will double the plant lito on a anew anew new aero acre or restore the pristine vigor Igor of an old acre It Its Ita Worth to civilization la is almost meal Incalculable because uso It makes life liCe ass eaB- ier for tor everybody It it gives elves the tho farmer larger production and the pressed pressed hard collar white man mana a 0 better baiter chance when he ha Ap- Ap Approaches approaches ap the tho counter or or his bis ils dally daily ra rations PET TO r l According to reports William Armstrong and other Los Lo Angeles capitalists have tub into a contract with the Crecent nt Eagle company for permission to eX- eX ex explore the tile ground Induced by the showings In the Cresent Eagle wail ell In the tho meantime the original original nal nat company will wili continue to drill into the thc deeper sand sands for the oil now known to exist erIt In eastern Itah Arrangements will be mare mareI mareto mareLO I to cu caa cac off oft the salt fait solutions that I c l encountered In the potash I beds These potash test holES hold are arc tobe to tobe tobe be sunk dunk to sufficient depth to tap the potash salt nIt bed which Is said to average around SO feet teet thick lid which Is believed to lie In formation co cohering a lurge lurg acreage In the vicinity of aI I th Eagle oil well Th The tronc have hao also k I 24 0 acres of lanes lanas I lying adjacent to t th ak lf tract treet and n near ar 10 to the tho town of Thompson This tract Is to tol I salts salta beds he g drilled for tor potash The state tract covers cover four see lice c In townships 2 22 20 and 23 south ranges 19 U and 20 21 east Op- Op Ol are to start stort within tt the next 30 days The United States Statu Imports an- an annually ai from Germany Franca Frence end and an d Belgium from to 15 15 worth orth of accord accord- accordIng Ing to figures compiled compile by iM Mr Thurber The Tha price of ot potash he h states Is ma controlled by bi American America Importers who have c acquired con con- control con trot of ot tb the German potash cate The foreign pro product soils sells sell on the eastern seaboard at about about abou it 33 tor for of ot ash and an sn 42 for sulphate of ot potash The Th total Importations importation aro arc between and long tons ton According to Mr Thurber the th o principal ob obstacle In tho way ot of domestic production of at potash Is the thO present freight tate rote of cC 15 per er ton to the eastern seaboard however er ho thinks that this could be lowered when a r production Is assured It Is also believed that th potash can bo be produced cheaply at ae Crescent duo to the apparent Immense quantity and the high valueS value now lion TitEr TIlEY RUN HUN The samples taken rora mate mate- materials materials rials ailed from tho the Crescent welt well the tho following follo percentages 92 na CC 0 01 n u and 2372 2312 per cent Another sample taken tak n from frona the holler bailer and an j submitted to II a a Denver chemist thoroughly familiar with German Germon potash showed 3 38 per cent Extensive experiments have been carri tl carrl-tl on In tn Denver as to the tho feasibility of ot corn corn- mercial potash fron from the tho salts aIt AS procured from the wel wI well on the ground and It Is said to bo be proved that a 11 successful operation can easily bu out The log loe of ot the Crescent well ell shows U 8 feet of ot formation con con- taming potash Recently an of- of fort tort was made to ball bail out the tho open hole bole below the casing and an It t was waz found that the salts had hai risen 1200 feet foot A A of ot the t I material which had flowed Into In the tho well ell was analyzed and tt It I was we found to run 2373 per cent centi eel i potash Copie of ot the analyses taken I ot of tho the Crescent ballings were reo re- recently submitted to th American I Trona corporation which carries on extensive operations at Searles I lake Calif with an Investment t lof of about As Al a a result It it Is ts keenly and is sending an engineer on to make mat an examination of ot tho the condition at the Cres Eagle Crescent ent Paie welt well |