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Show ill HUNDRED TOIS OF ! POTASH TO BE I. SHIPPED ' At Kosmo, on ilr o d :lne of he Southern Pacific uortn of C -e.it Salt (Lake, a company marie up of lT'ah j capitalists, has bmlt nc : the 'arc- Bt i potash plants in the United States, Mid J. M Pulton, asslstanl freiht -nd passenger agent, with Uearltiuartera a! I Reno. Nevada, who IS peeping in close touch with the de eiopments. savs he qpmpany is prep iring to hip 40 oo to 50,000 tons of 15 per cent 'potash, the product of tho flrsl season's oper-! oper-! atlons. I A pumping plant, capable of MfMng ; 20,000 gallons of lake rater a minute, 'throws a stream into ;he vats or pordo 'which cover 3,600 acres of land. aid, I by the process of sun evaporation, Ihe I salt is extracted md iien, by gravity, jthe heavily charged .otash water Us allowed to flow into "ats where .he potash salts crys'.allize cut and are gathered,. The plant is said to have cost $2f0,-1 $2f0,-1 000 and additions arc to be made next year. Mr. Fulton estim Ucs that Irs road will get 90U carloads of potash from this plant within ;he next few weeks. |