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Show POTASH PLANT IS j NOW PRODUCING! First Carload of the Product Is Shipped Out I of Marysvale This. Week Outlook Is Bright For Enterprise. The potrtnh plant at Mnr)snte Ml operated In Its entirety for the first! time nnd some time this week the first carload of the I'tah product .which , mnkes the United Btates Independent ' of Importations from Germany, will be shipped. It will go to a concern In Florida This was announced by C. II. Macdonell of Chicago, lce president of the Mlnernl Products corporation, at Halt Lake City Monday. The Mineral Min-eral Products corporation Is the name of the compan organlzt-d by the Armour Ar-mour Interests to build and operate the plant at Mnralc for the marketing mar-keting of potash. Macdoucll Is president of the Armour Ar-mour fertilizer works nnd Is tho active ac-tive head of the Armour potash Interests Inter-ests lie returned to Zlnn Monday from a tun weeks' stay nt the deposits at Marysvale. superintending the final tout lies of reconstruction of the tramway, tram-way, which has delated the operation of the plant until thli week. The rest of the plant was ready for business the middle of Kcptember. Mncdowcll ira)s "We found It necessary to rebuild our tramway for the proper operation of the plant, and that work has Juat been completed. The tramway will be used for the first time todn, which will also mark the opening of the enterprise en-terprise ns n whole. Wo nre all read) for doing business at Marys-vale Marys-vale now and the first isrlniul will be shipped some time this week. It Is dinelgiied to a firm In l'lorlda. This first mrliNnl shipment will consist of VI per cent concentrated sulphate f potash, lucked In cotton bags. This iwnclitnge la higher limn the Oerman produtt. which this itnin-ID itnin-ID has In large extent depended llmn In the wet. The Herman initaah seldom sel-dom ran over imt cnt With our concentrating plant we will be nolo to run up nearly to 9 ier cent pura. Tlie unit of our plant at Marys-vale, Marys-vale, now complete, la cnKhle of turning out twenl-flte to thirty tons of comcliimted iHitash H day. I refer to this plant as a "unit." but It Is entirely en-tirely complete III Itself. At future dates other mills. ale complele. will , be bulll. doubling and trebling the output, for the present we will haul the priiduel to the railroad on motor trui ks. but In the near future the Denver nnd Itlo (Iramle la going tn put In a side traik to our plant." (internment Is Helping. Mai dow ell, tommeutliig titon the statement concerning I'tah potash deposits de-posits made by 1'rauklln K. l-nnn, secretary sec-retary of the Intel lor, said: "The government has been mm h Intel ested In our projeit to open up these deposit nnd has given us every emourngement llo)t dale of the geological suney Is now In Marys-vale Marys-vale condoning experiments." Mmdowell talked euthilslaslliall) of the opening of the potash Industry In this slate, lie remarked, however, that the Industry nlread) was suffering suffer-ing from the exploiting- of wildcat" I propositions In which easterners were being Induced to Invest their mone) I He declared that Ills ioitiHiny was doing do-ing Its best to prevent the "wildcat" promoters from trading upon the name and plans of his company tn sell their dubious stock, nnd suggested that all civic bodies would do n service ser-vice to aid In n campaign ngnlnst the "wildcatters," whose operations would hurt the state. Ho added- "Kvery few da) I receive word from different parts of tho country or promoters who are tr)lng to sell stock In Utah potash enterprises nnd who ar trading upon our nnme nnd using picture or our plant to aid their arguments. Man) Dclllicrntc I'nkiM. "Many or these nre deliberate rakes, and we nre laklng steps to prosecute. For Instance, I heard the other day thnt a promoter was selling stock In llnltlmore nnd other large cities In thu Knst. exhibiting photographs or our works nt Mar)svalo and calling his compaii) the Mineral Products com-pnny com-pnny or America. It Is n palpable attempt at-tempt to steal our name. The name or our holding company Is the Mineral I'rniliirls comnanv. unit that of the operating company Is tho Mineral Products corporation. The promoter has Just added "of America,, nnd Is gulling people Into thinking they nro getting stock In our company. "Our companies nre nil financed We have no stock for sate uml wo have plcnt) of money to develop and operate op-erate our properties. I do not want to seem In the position of trying to shut out any legitimate competitors, but I believe that most of those "wildcat" "wild-cat" i-oiiiiHttile promoted In the Kasl have nothing no valuable deposit, no prm-esss and no prospects. |
