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Show M UU DEVELOPING AMERICAN I RESOURCES. Americans are profiting by the war I ji Prior to the declaration of hostilities, I this country depended on Gvrmany for j many necessary articles which are mj now being manufactured here. The I New York Times tells of the sale of i 10,000 tonB of potash in that city, at a price equivalent to that paid in normal times for German potash salts, j The sale, according to the Times, was I made by a Pacific Coast business man i who has engaged, with a small group I of associates, in the production of pot- ! ash from seaweed, or kelp, Deliv- I ery of five cars is promised within I sixty days, and the Westerner told I the Times that processes for the "com- j raercializatlon" of kelp have been im H I proved to the point where success Is assured. The seaweed is "harvest- I I ed " by a submarine cutting device. I I with a capacity of fifty tons per hour He adds that the fifty tone of kelp, k . 4 when "processed," yields five tons of H i fertilizing material with a potash content of more than 2n per cent. The opening of the Panama canal, it is explained, permits delivery of the product on the eastern seaboard at a fair profit to the producers. |