Show NEWS GATHERED IN THE mm MINING FIELDS 0 richfield man alcad ids I 1 Al alunite reduction t lon co A large deposit of alunite ore situated but a i few miles from marys vale will within the near future yield potash and potash alum it if the plans of the alunite aluvita reduction company prosper this company consisting of utah men plans to start construction of a mill to treat the large amount of ores already exposed upon the companas comp anys property consisting of ISO aci acids Cs this mill will treat the ores by a process evolved by a sigurd man mail R N jenson jensen who has been interested in the potash business for the past five 0 or r six years about twenty years ago the property then owned by the alunite reduction company was a heavy producer of the highest grade iron ore that had been mined in ili the state according to D W adamson secretary and treasurer of the company in III driving the adit to mine this iron ore mostly hematite or a limonite some i of which is r reported to have run as high as SO per cent iron a deposit of alunite feet wide was cut inasmuch as the uses of alunite either were not known or not commercialize ed at that time no attention was paid to the deposit the alunite reduction company decided that the mineral could be treated at a profit by mr jensens hensens Jen sens process after making thorough tests of the process the company is of the opinion according to mr adamson amson that tho the products in ill one t ton oil of the ore are worth GO and that potash can be produced at a profit even it if competition germany and other foreign countries that previous to the war held a world monopoly of the industry all equipment necessary for mining milling is already upon the ground according to mr adamson construction of the first unit of the mill which will v ill be a twenty ton capacity per eight hours will be begun immediately dia tely this which is situated on the sevier river is but three miles from the mine and on the railroad it is expected that the mill will be in operation by the early part of the summer the officers and directors of the company are arc as follows A J fillmore of richfield president R N jensen of sigurd vice president D all adams secretary and treasurer and F J sylvester and E J evans directors |