Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-20 | Page 4 | Eight Dollars a Ton for Sagebrush

ou EIGHT DOLLARS A TON FOR SAGEBRUSH. Sagebrush, on which nature seemingly seem-ingly had wasted so much effort, is not the useless product of the one hundred hun-dred million acres of the west that we have been led to believe. A Nevada Ne-vada chemist, knowing that tho ashes of sagebrush made strong lye and therefore was a form of pot-ash, proceeded pro-ceeded to make tests and he discovered discov-ered that one ton of sagebrush reduced re-duced to 160 pounds of ash, gave a product containing 31 per cent of sol-uable sol-uable potash. Then he sent samples to a chemical company at Richmond, Virginia, and received in return an offer of-fer of $100 a ton, at any point on the railroad in Nevada, for all the ashes he could produce. Now what do you think of that? Sagebrush everywhere, and worth ?8 per ton! Klondike at our doors! But there Is sagebrush and sagebrush sage-brush and, on further investigation, It may be disclosed that only a certain cer-tain brush will produce a high percentage per-centage of potash. I