| Show amm POTASH MILL TO BE REBUILT BUiLT iff AT ONCE new IL nud and other equipment for a new plant lis lias already been becu ordered by officers of company the big biff mil of the mineral products c camany 0 many at ae Marys valc which was IV Is by fire ten days ago will be rebuilt according to an interview with howard S chappell pre si lent ent of 0 the company here is the ary ry as it appeared it in the tr tribune abune air chappell was lotif notified led by telegraph concerning the fire while he was on the overland limited at laramie wyo on thursday night he immediately began formulating plans for rebuilding the plant on oil his arrival in salt lake he held a conference with his consulting engineer john W hornsey at the hotel utah and by S that night had placed orders for approximately worth of machinery and other necessities for the new plant at a late hour officers of the company were vere in ill consultation with lumber men for the immediate delivery of lumber for the new buildings according to mr Chapel ll insurance companies cancelled policies les amounting to GOO last spring after the published reports of incendiary cen diary fires at the plant and the mines difficulty was experienced in getting new insurance but this was finally obtained when the plant burned it was fully covered but mr chappell says the present policies will expire before the new plant is completed Z while no work can begin on the new plant and the debris cannot be cleared away until the scene of the fire is visited by insurance adjusters it is planned he said to have all the materials on the ground as soon as possible so that the new buildings will begin to arise immediately the insurance men finish their inspection although I 1 am quite certain that the fire in the mine last spring was 1 brought about by german money said mr chappell 1 I am convinced that tins this last and most disastrous blaze was merely the result of combustion in the coal dryer such as all companies using these driers experience peri per lence ence the only difference was that in this case the explosion was unusually intense and threw the hot coals over the building starting a fire ordinarily these drier troubles are only puffs but this one it seems was a big one we employ 2500 men at our biant and we know every one of them and their history I 1 want to say that I 1 believe there is not a more loyal lot of men anywhere in the country than those at our plant we y have selected our men with care and while sonic some of them have been members of the I 1 W W none of them re in good standing or follow the tates of that organization we have been in close touch with tile ithe government secret service at all times limes and not one of our present employees employee is under the least cloud of suspicion mr chappell said that while potash has beer been the principal product of the company it would in the future be only the b lie he declared that through experiments ills his laboratory experts have discovered chemicals that are to tile the government in the prosecution of the war and lias has been manufacture S ing them he would not tell what v chemicals they were but said that they could not be secured anywhere else in the world just now the president of the mineral products ducts corporation who was the first man to advocate the manufacture of potash in this country on a large ecale and nd established the marys vale plant which is ib the first successful plant of its kind to operate in the united states was wag educated in germany and at one time was offered a professorship in fit the university of |
