Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-24
EXTENSIVE HONE INDUSTRY
The Second Largest Freight Producing
Establishment on tha UnlOn
Pacific System.
ABSOLUTELY PURE GRADUATED
SALT.
The Trlplcx Purifier and Cleaner, the
Greatest Machine Of It's Kind In The
World, Produces II.

Few persons In this city realize fully
to what extent the salt Industry In
Utah O. D,ilg pushed. Only by u
visit TO the worRs 81 the Inland Crystal
Salt Company Mt Saitair can the
knowledge be accurately attained. f..
w. Meogan, the general manager
NJ these works, conducted u party
through the grounds and factories Of
tho Saltair establishment yesterday.
The party consisted Of momb, Is
Of the local press, tho NEYs
Heraid, tribune, Times and Mr.. @. =.
Holmes Of the Knutsford hotel, &. l..
Aiken, capitalist Oliver Olsen, re.
Gently Of Rock Island, Illinois, tut now
q practising lawyer In this city, j. NJ.
Haywood, and several others.
The Saltair works Of the Inland Cfys.
tai Salt company are located about
four miles northeast OF Garfield Beach.
They are approached by branch
from the Utah & Nevada line. Visitors
to the beach Will remember noticing
on tho right dense smoke Issuing
from n tall stack, giving the Imp res.
sion OF huge steamer at sea. That is
tbs location OF the main building Of
the works, and In which II situated the
purifying and cleansing machine, said
to bo the largest OF the kind Ia the
world.
In approaching the salt fields on the
branch from the Utah aud Nevada, the
attention OF the visitor 10 arrested by
the dazzling whiteness OF the scene.
The company owns Ia this vicinity
nearly 1000 acres Of land, 400 OF which
are under salt at present. There are
hfteen large ponds for evaporating pur-
poses, and harvesting salt. About 200
men are now employed ON the grounds.
The crude salt In being wheeled from
the beds, and stacked into piles for the
convenience OF loading into cars. These
piles II mnde into one great highway
would mako bank 81 feet deep, feet
high ana q miles long. There are 7
miles OF track laid over the ponds, anti
close to which these piles are being
built. There are two flowing wells OF
hot, salt water visible from the road,
but nc analyals has been made as yet
OF tbs streams. The ponds are supplied
with water from the lake by means Of
pumping apparatus. There IL "a
Hume OF 1900 feet on 10 which
the water is pumped from the lake,
thence II flows into canal mile In
length, which takes IL into the ponds.
During Its Journey over the canal ami
tho ilrst series OF ponds, sediments VI
all kinds In solution In the water settle
on the bottom The water flows on 10
the ponds further out, when II becomes
free from all matter except the salt.
Evaporation then goes on and in IA
short time nothing remains but II
heavy crust OF salt six or seven inches
In depth. For six months Of the year
this pumping process goes on,averagiDg
100000 gallons daily. The operation
Is suspended during the hafvesting aeB.
son, which generally lasts from Sep.
TENDER to April.
The Inland Cry etal Salt company Ia
the successor Of the Inland Suit Com
psny, u corporation organized many
years ago. About eighteen mo nths
since the new company purchased the
stock plant and grounds for 100000
and has since expended $50, 900 In I'm
pr0vements, In the way Of Introducing
new machinery, etc.
The crude salt Is first shoyeled Into