Show SULPHATE OF SODA Among the many natural resources of this region is one which will some day be o utilized For many years those who have been accustomed to visit our Salt Lake during certain seasons have noticed a peculiar substance which in rigorous cold weather is blown ashore and forms in layers from five to eight inches thick extending forty miles along the shore I < This substance sometimes called bitter salt is none other than pure sulphate of soda It has been gathered in large quantities but for lack of a proper plant nothing can be done with itt it-t 0 This substance has only to beE be-E treated with charcoal to produce pro-duce the commercial carbonate of soda Already have samples been sent to the famous alkali manufacturers of England and Germany who pronounce it the purest sulphate of soda A But the cost of carrying it across the ocean makes it impossible to do anything with P S f f those countries To manufacture salsoda carbonate of soda soda ash and other valuable products simply requires the capital and energy In other places in the United States they take the crude salt and by chemical process pro-cess produce the sulphate while here at I our doors nature throws down at one the sulphate and we patiently await the time when some farseeing men will thank nature for assisting thus far and with science will complete the work A fact which is perhaps little known is x this the Utah Soap Company is today to-day manufacturing the finest quality of sal soda and further they are supplying the trade with it through some of our wholesale houses They have thus t S added another industry to the list and there remains yet enough in this section I I which seems to have been natures lab ratory to employ the energy and capital the rare of as many as wish to accept gifts of nature BO lavishly strewn on every hand throughout this region |