Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-06 | Page 10 | Potash Company to Build $700,000 R. R

! Potash Company to m 1 Build $700,000 R. R. 1 The construction of a railroad spur B from Montpeller, Idaho, through Mon- H pelier canyon, at the approximate ex- H peiwliture of $700,000, by tho Amori- H can Potish company, was announced H today in a letter received from Super- H visor E. C. Sanford of the Caribou H forest. H With the railroad constructed, H standard gauge cars will be run to H the potash mines in the canyon and H loaded direct into tho cars. jfl The reason for the cxtensivo potash JH development near Montpeller is due to .D the enormous Increase in the value of VM raw potash rock, which at present is jl selling for $13 per ton on the Atlantic ijl seaboard. f fll The report also states that a spui jH track Is contemplated to potash mines In Georgetown canyon. jH With full production of these mines, the dally output of the American Potash company will exceed 1,000 nl cars daily. It is stated. Bl Tho San Francisco Chemical com- BH pany is also extensively developing KfB potash deposits in tho vicinity of ;KI Monlpolicr. and is at present shipping fHI large quantities of potash rock. Jl