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Show INITIAL CARLOAD OF POTASH SHIPPED Salt Lake, Oct. 23. Hoyt S. Gale, investigator for tho United States geological survey, arrived in Salt Lake Ciyt yesterday from the potash districts of Marysvale, Utah, where he has been making extensive studies in behalf of the bureau. Mr. Gale has been studying the pro-cesses pro-cesses for treatment of the potash deposits developed by the Mineral Prouducts corporation and utilized In the plant thoy completed and opened the first of this week for the placing of the potash on the commercial market. mar-ket. "This company shipped its first car of potash yesterday," said Mr. Gale at the Hotel ptah yesterday, "and the occasion was ono of celebration at the plant. It was the first large commercial com-mercial shipment of potash from thc Utah fields." Mr. Gale declined to comment on his investigations at Marysvale. They t 111 be incorporated in a bulletin he will prepare for the geological survey upon his return to Washington. oo |