Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-18 | Page 8 | Developing the Potash Mines

DEVELOPING THE POTASH MINES Salt Lake. Nov. 18. Impressed with the increasing mining activity and confident that the Warysvale district is now entering its period of greatest great-est prosperity, due to the production of potash and also the awakened Interest In-terest in metal mining, p. a Fitz-patrick. Fitz-patrick. prominently identified" with tho Florence Mining & Milling company, com-pany, was iuSalt Lake yesterday on his way to the Pacific coast Ho announced an-nounced that P. . Cameron, for 20 years in charge of the bureau of soils of the United States geological survey, sur-vey, had severed his connection with the survey and was now chief chem ist of the Utah Potash company. Mr. Cameron is at present In Richfield. Rich-field. He has been making a thorough thor-ough examination of the alunlte deposits de-posits that have been taken over from the Florence Mining & Milling company com-pany by eastern capitalists who have formed the Utah Potash company. B. E. Hoffman of Richfield has been retained re-tained as counsel in Utah for the new potash company and will In a few days apply for a charter for the company. com-pany. The Investigations of Mr. Cameron, in whoHe department while he was with tho geological survey, all alunlte tests were made, show thnt a largo deposit on tbe Florenco companyfs ground of material not heretofore known to be valuablo is an altered al-unite al-unite that contains a high percentage of potash. The Utah Potash management Is now receiving bids for the erection of an aerial tramway that Is to be about eight miles In length and that will connect tho mine with the mill-site mill-site located near Marysvale. The officials of-ficials have also arranged to take over an additional 105 acres of ground upon which alunite has been discovered. discov-ered. As soon as the erection of the tramway tram-way begins, the management has decided de-cided to also begin the construction of the mill, so that the new company will begin producing potash as soon as tho tramway is completed.