Show fa ally BECOME SOURCE OF HUGE FORTUNES potential wealth lies slumbering in enormous alunite deposits A little southwest of monroe lies a stretch of land luion known as poverty flat the name originated when the first settlers arrived in utah and colonized the southern part of sevier county that stretch of land covered with sand and sagebrush did not show any possibility of an easy supply of water for irrigation purposes pui poses and obviously was destined to remain uncultivated to remain a poverty hat flat grain and hay and sugar beets did not and could not grow on land as poor as that but nature is a good provider and where she does not spread riches that come coine from agriculture her lavish hands deposited other things that wait only for human ingenuity to find them and tra transform na the pauper into a source of riches li ch es in and near poverty flat it is minerals that a well providing mother deposited for the use of her children untiring prospectors those pioneers in the development of mines havo have searched and found many minerals in the neighborhood in the hills and cliffs surrounding the rough and rugged country the most extensive of all deposits they have found is a vast accumulation of an alunite ore containing ta in addition to aluminum and sulphur a considerable percentage of potash the basis of the fertilizer needed to make the soil productive claims were taken up locations have been recorded and work lias has been commenced tending to develop the properties and to wake up into activity the fortunes lying there dormant in quantities so immense so enormous that they can supply the demand for a n hundred years and more one of the largest claims in tho neighboring henry mountain mining district forms the basis of incorporation of a company known ns as the potash butte batte mining company of vv which continued on en page four poverty flat may become the source of huge fortunes continued from page one william johnston the veteran sevier county mining man is president and D P jensen secretary treasurer there the ore which geologists and mineralogists call alunite form a mass between two rhyolite dykes about 1500 feet fide and about feet long coming up from the interior of the earth and reaching down deep in the intestines of the hills A bulletin of the geological survey y of the united states department of agriculture refers to this deposit as having great commercial value but except for some assessment work showing the immensity of the deposits nothing has been done so as to take out the values yet the demand for fertilizer is growing the importations from france and germany Is bec becoming ming and more and more burdensome and the time is near when the united states farmers will see the light and will begin to use those fertilizers that they have within their doors instead of those which have to be shipped for many thousands of miles over the ocean just recently a group of men composed of E delaney Dc laney a noted fertilizer chemist B brody a mining eagin eer E L black an old time prospector and miner M bell of monroe and others guided by mr johnston drove out to the deposits and admired the giant fortunes spread out over the land in all directions and to this day not transformed into money the ultimate goal of all industrial agricultural and mining endeavors it was interesting for those in the party and will be interesting to all who have vision vision and aim to keep at home what belongs home to hear mr delaney talk about the intrinsic values of the alunite unite fl deposits in our part of the country president lincoln speaking of the steel which at his time was 1 imported from great britain said if you buy steel from england you have the steel and england has the money but if you develop the steel industry in our land you will have both the steel and the money the same applies to the potash which can be extracted from those alunite deposits chemical tests and assays essays have shown that the potash contents of the ore is quite high containing from three to twelve per cent of this basic fertilizer and twelve per cent is about the highest found in the best of potash ores ones if home industry will extract the potash and the farmers will use it we will have both the potash and the money which now goes in france and germany As to the quality mr delaney says that the imported fertilizer is a potassium chloride which is not as good as the potassium sulphate found here the chloride dL di solving very quickly and losing its efficiency in a short time while the product found here would retain its fertilizing efficiency for years you must not forget the chemist says that with every ton of sugar beets taken out of the ground you take out seventeen pounds of potash and this has to be brought back into the soil in some way to kept it fertile sevier county is situated quite fortunately because the streams of water coming from the hills where our alunite deposits are contain a certain percentage of potash and in this way the irrigation brings back into the soil some of the elements needed for growing the beets but further out in the west as well as in the east the irrigation waters do not contain those ele elements ments and fertilizing is an absolute necessity this explanation opens the view for an enormous market of the material we have here and one industry quite naturally develops another the dreamer the vision will see in the development of the potash another possibility take out the potash and you still have the other components of the ore the sulphur which can be easily transformed into sulphuric acid and the alun dna to be transformed into aluminum that metal which is now in great bernd in the automobile industry in aviation and so on it takes dreamers and to point out the way to the practical man who tries sometimes rather slowly to make the dream come true that the potash in our bur deposits have most excellent fertilizing qualities has already been demonstrated in a small way right here in richfield lawn which has been s sprinkled P crinkled with the ground raw material just as it comes out from the deposits has grown more luxuriantly than lawn not treated this way in the yard ard of one of the owners of other alunite deposits near the poverty flat ed nelson an interesting experiment s been made and the results can be seon seen right there mr nelson planted two trees one in ground fel fertilizer with barnyard manure the other fertilized with alunite ore that has not been treated in any other way but by grinding both trees grew nicely but the circumference of the one in the soil fertilized with alunite is six inches larger than that of the other our farmers are conservative in thinking and in doing they are all like the missourian who lias to be shown they still buy french and gorman german fertilizer at 40 a ton which they could get from home sources at 20 a ton but they buy the higher price material because they have not been shown yet that the lower priced home product is justas just as good and better would it not be a good idea to show th them em an experiment haymof farm of ten acres would be sufficient to make the gestand test and there can be no doubt os as to the outcome and then when the farmers see what the home product does a start will have been made towards the development of an industry the possibilities poi PO i b of which w are out an end |