Thursday, December 36, 1118
Potash Notes
The Ant loch News It authority for
the ststement that the fight for con
trol of potaah Iskcs on atate arhool
lands mar ret hwnmp centered
Iwwn the Western Pot a ah ('oripa.v.
With plant at Antloch, an 1 the O i iv
ha 1'otaah Company with plant at
Lakeside, with the Alliance Potash
Company aa an Interested spectator
Hon of cotton, is a mixture of
phosphate, cotton aeed meal. Ash
crap, blood and bone, kalnlt. sulph
uric acid and potaah. Factories with
appropriate machinery grind all of
these substances Into a constituency
not unlike the Anal substance coming
from our own potash factories, and
sacked in a manned similar It la com
monly known aa guano. After the
flielda are properly prepared, the
plow making the furrows la folowed
by an agricultural Implement distri
buting the guano Into the furrow end
this Is followed by the cotton planter
drilling the seed Into the furrow on
nd possible participant Now thattop of the guano, followed by a har.
the state supreme court has ruled irow. We have renorts on the ouantitv
that all bids must be advertised for
and thnt the Interpretation placed on
the law by the court must be fallowed
of potash used annually only from
the olnea state of Georgia, but It be
ing a fair average for the other
It Is very probable that bids will be States, some Idea of the tonage of pot-
advertlseri for shortly after the In
coming administration takes the rein
or It is possible that an attempt nay
be made to amend that law and that
the awarding of leases may be hel l
Off until aitat the coining MMiWo I
the legislature.
The Antloch News of lust week also
contained an interesting article on
the relation of potash to fertilizers.
This article was In part as follows:
While with producers of potash, Its
uses, dlsposltiol and distribution Is
familiar with the general public, only
a vague idea as to how It enters as I
fertilizer Is entertained by them.
This article may or It may not be of
public interest, but Is published for
what it is worth based upon facts.
There Ib but one section In the United
8tates where cotton can be produced
successfully and profitably and that Is
the great cotton producing states of
the south. After upwards of two
Centuries continuous use of the land
for growing cotton. It is natural that
artificial means must aid the soil.
Fertilizers can be manufactured for
enrichment of the Boil that would
cause the cotton stalks grow taller
than a mans head, but without potash
aa one of the ingredlants, it would
prove valuless for potash Is the only
substance known that will cause the
cotton to fruit and therefore cotton
and potash Is so indissoluably linked
together that without potash, no cot
ton could be raised at least In the
United States. The process of manu
facture of fertilizer for the produc-
nnthlng to do with the many otlertn
dustriss In which potash iters ss a
necessary Ingredient.
In a pamphlet compiled by Uiyt S.
dale, director of the U. 8. Geological
Survey, and published In the News
Issue of December 20. 1917, other In
dustries In which potash enters as an
Important Ingredient are: soap and
laundry; manufacture of glass; mat
ches; explosives and black powder;
tanning; dying; metallurgy; electio
typlng; photography; merlcal and
iniscellaneouss chemicals used and
many other necessities and desi-es f
commercial life and while It would re
quire much time and vast fi urch
to ascertain the number of tons a. n
ally used for these other industries,
yet It Is certain enough used to gn..i
ly exceed the production thus for In
the United Sates. The more that is
produced in RAmerica, and the
nearer the production comes to sup
plying the demand, the better pros
pects there are for securing national
legislation that will prevent Import a.
tions at prices less than it can be pro
duced In America, and there Is no
danger of the plants now in operation
producing too much potash. All the
bunk published and thrown broad'Tist
by fertilizer truBt as to limited de
mand for potash Is for the purpose
of discouraging investments and pro
duction in our own country and re
priclple of preference in America for
American products is to y firml
grounded in the people to tolerate
any discrimination in the matter of
foreign Importations.
Ily the decision of the Nebraska
supreme court, handed down on Sat
urday. December 14t)i, t e val'dttj of
the mineral leasing 'av, pastel at
the ape.lnl iCSBion in the spring of
1918 of the state legislature, is held
the land thus leased by payment of
damages to the holder of the agri
cultural lease this may be done. The
supreme court says the Lancaster
court waa wrong when It enjoined the
board the board from Issuing mineral
leases save only to Brlggs until his
agricultural lease expired, and re
mands the cane for action under Its
hidings.
ash required for this one particular
purpose may be obtained fram multi
plying the quantity given for this one
state hy twelve The figures are ob
tained from the fourth annual report
of the Commissioner of Commerce
and l,nbm and Is given as follows:
Number of establishments 260
Capital and investment $41,200,000
Tons of phosphate 379,115
Tons cotton seed meal 61,04 3
Tons fish scrap .1,364
Tonse, blood and bone 21,4 t-
Tons of kalnlt 11,14
Tons sulphuric acid lli200
Tons of potash .10,0-5
Total tons raw material ltd, 90S
Total value n,97P.,00')
Total tons manufactured pro
ducts 73ls.!.f2
Total value of manufacture!
products 20,&T,0. 80
As stated above' this is for bu on
of the twelve cotton states, a fair pre
sumption being that each of trein re
1 - . t 41... Mtkli .It i . I
1" rZJr?" IT. L. Hriggs. representative-elect
...n.- ... ........ TTT7 frnm thl district loses in his con
tentlou that the state award the pot-
in this Industry alone 35'..90t to: s
annually.
It will not be far out of the way to
estimate the total tonago of potash
produced In the whole of south Shel l
dan county annually as 200,000,
which is a conservative estimate.
Thus far It has not been shown that
products from California plants cut
any very great figure In the total it
mates.
The figures given above relate only
to the fertiliser industry ind has
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ash mineral lenses to him, n: o the
Bonn , vr, that the statp Soa; 1 i.my
award nr leases until the refer of tut
new law is strictly followed and M1&
advertised for and awarded in open
competition
The suit on which the ucSlS'Olt was
reiw'err.fi was brought by Brl ?ns in
the Lancaster county district tnurt
which 6. tided that he, as the holder
rf the 1.-. cultural and Kitting I nse
would be materially damaged If the
mineral lease were awarded to others
I The district court decided in his fa.
;vor and the case was at once carried
I to the supreme court.
' The supreme court says that the
state board of educational lands and
I funds must advertise for bids on all
school inds for the mineral leases:
that ttu 1 iave not the right to award
new leases to the holders of leaseB
granted in 1917 without Rolng into
open bidding; that the lessee of the
mineral rights cannot interfere in
any respect with the rights of the
agricultural lubaee to his damage
wlthoul providing for an satisfying
such damages. The fact that the law
does not provide a means of ascertain
lug these damages does not matter;
If they cannot be made by agreement
a court of equity can take jurisdic
tion. The claim hntl been made, in an
effort to influence the court, that
Representative Lloyd Thomas of Al
liance, who was o: of the introducer
Of the mineral leasing law, was in
terested in the leases on school lands
on which the potash lakes were lo
cated. The court was not deceived by
this attempt to hisletid it Mr. Thomas
had no interest in the school land
leaBes mid liis only desire was to se
cure a fair, equitable law. The decis
ion of the court is a vindication of
his efforts to do so.
The court futher declares that the
state board Should call frr competi
tive bids as the Statues contemplate
and the holders of the invalid leases
may hid with others and specify in
their bonds the a mount of bonus and
royalty provided in the former con.
tracts. If they are not tbs successful
bidders the legislature, will give tMeni
DSCk the money previously expended
by them. It also says that a miners
leaseholder cannot he deprived of
rights thereunder by unreasonable
demands of the holder of the agricul
tural lease. The legislature will meet
soon and it is desired to apply the
power of eminent domain to net back
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The Allialnce Creamery
Merchants9 Lunch
Beginning Jamiary 1st the Silver Grill
will serve a Merchants' Lunch, daily from
11 a. m. to 1:30 A. m.
This featurtjis added to the regular
service of the Silver Grill fur the benefit
of the busy business man, who desires,
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A special menu has been prepared for
this lunch, which should please. Re
member short orders of all kinds and at
all hours.
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