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Show MAKING OF POTASH, H 1 .One of the war industries which has had an unfavorable history H is the manufacture of potash. AYhen the war broke out in 1914 there was no potash production H , in the United States. The supply came from German' and a monop- H ol.y existed which made the foreigners masters of the situation. Hj But potash is a necessity. It enters into the production of many H .articles of commerce. and is an indispensable fertilizer. To stimulate H the infant industry, the United States government caused informa- HJ tion on the subject to be widely disseminated and as a result the H i west was the scene of experiments which ranged from the extract- H ing of the chemical from leucite in AVyoming to the trapping of the salts carried in the dust of the cement plant at the Ogden Cement l! company's factory near Brigham. H Three companies were organized to produce the salts from the HH brines of Great Salt Lake. One .operated near Saltair, another at Grantsville, but the most successful was the plant established west of Monument on the oldHine of the .Central Pacific railroad which fl today promises to be one of the very few experiments capable of sur- B viving' the competition of an open market.. H There should be a means found, by government aid or other- B wise, to keep the most promising of these potash plants operating, H in order that the United States at no time in the future will be de- H' pendent solely on a foreign source of supply. This same policy H should be pursued in. the safeguarding of the dye industry, the man- H ufacture of the higher grades of glass for lenses and the chemical J lines which only lately have been attempted in this country'. |