Piute Chieftain | 1917-01-18 | Page 1 | $15,000,000 Ready for Development

READY FOR development dr B H payne of san francisco president of the potash company of utah the 0 corporation which was morgn aig iced more than two months ago for the tha development of 0 the alunite deposits of 0 plute county is at the hotel utah on his way to marsdale marysvale Mars Marys vale he said last that on oil his return from the southern part of the state ile he would be in 4 position to give information in regald to the potash properties which his corporation has taken over ile he added that the drilling tor or alunite proposed when tho the company was first formed will not be tinder undertaken taken at this time but that the entire holdings of tha alib company willbe worked by driving t tunnels to tho the different part of the land on which the company lia ha 9 filed dr payne said that money tor for the mill and reduction works la Is already in the treasury and that as soon as engineers estimate Osti mate the amount necessary essary to build the plant orders will be placed with eastern manufacturing concerns for machinery dr payne Is ia accompanied on the tha trip by P F B maccarthy a mining engineer who was interested in a number of companies in tho the southern C counties which began the search tor for al alunite aluni un lt tc mr Bla maccarthy cCarthy is sacre secretary tary of thoi company and had ha served as a for the widener estate of philadelphia for a number of years the widener estate has vast holdings in the uintah basin herald republican january 16 4 1 4