The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-25

Dy the Jtan q Nevada Drancn OF the Union
PaciIic. line of road having been built
from Seltair Junction TO the works. The
sign
Inland Salt Gardens.
90 per cent Pure. !;
has long been familiar object to the WISH
tors to the lake shore, and the huge
volumes Of smoke from the tall stack OF
the company have caused many stranger
10 ask what business was being carried on
there.
THE SALT FINDS.
The company owns ZOO acres of land,
100 OF which sre now in use for the evapo-
ration of the waters of the lake. There are
fifteen large ponds into which the salt
water is pumped and evaporated by the
heat of the sun. Two hundred men are
now employed in gathering the salt nar
vest, the crude material being stacked in
huge piles near the railway track, so ss to
be convenient for loading into cars. A
ssatistician figured it out that If these
piles were made into an embsnkment il
would be 80 feet wide, z fleet high and AZ
miles long. Seven miles of track run in
all directions over the ponds and greatly
facilitate the harvesting.
The water Is forced from the lake to the
ponds by q unique pumping apparatus into
hume 1.500 feet long, from which the
fluid, soon TO become crystalized, hows
through canal a mile or more in length 10
the ponds.
The depth of the average crystalization
varies from six to seven inches. The
pumping of such an immense body of water
as is needed to fill the ponds is no small
item, for as viii be seen when il is stated
that for nearly six months in the year
100000 gallons daily are drawn from the
depths of the Great Salt lake. Asked as
TO the period OF harvesting, Mr.. Meegan
replied that 1t usually began in September
IND continued TO April.
AT THE WORKS.
Tbs crude salt is first shoveled into q
rrusher, then conveyed by a hopper to the
main drum OF the great purifier. This drum
Is AZ feet long, feet high and feet in d.
nmeter- Inside ot this drum is series of
revolving wheels which takes the salt and
cause it to revolve 200 times while in pro-
cess of transmission 1t energies at the
other end in tine crystals. The drum is
heated 10 the extent of 240 degrees and by
means of q powerful suction fan. the i'm
purities are drawn away in the form of dust
and blown through a funnel to the roof.
The crystal salt Is next drawn to second
machine q feet high and 16 feet long, and
subjected TO q similar process, where it be-
comes granulsted. 1t is then conveyed over
q series Of sleeves and sifters. and finally
three grades of pure salt are produced
There was time, and it is within the
memory OF many more people than the old
est lnhRbitant, when the Salt Lake mer-
chants refused to handle homemade dairy
Dr. table salt. because it had very strong
tendency to cake. ssO,n they said, lit is
good enough for cattle and mining uses,
l,.,4 2 he
those purposesI"
But change has GOMEZ
Now these very same merchants cheer
fully admit that the homemade article is
the peer OF any, and MANY take great pleas
ure IN pushing it, as they should do, ahead
Of the imported, the latter, by the way,
being q very scarce article in the market st
present. This is due, of course, to the sci
entihc manner in which the salt is handled,
bosh in and out Of the works. Samples di-
rect from the machine showed it to be
as even and as perfect as the grains of
sand on the beach. II is packed for ship
ment almost as soon as IL falls from the
hopper, and so fine is 1t that the nimble-
fingered boys who sew up the three five.
ten. twenty-five fifty and one hundred
pound sacks resemble very much, 80 far as
their clothes are concerned, q man who
works in -four mill. The table and
dairy salt is known as the Royal Crystal"
Another, and coarser grade called mo. l
Fine" and also coarse stock salt is put up
In fifty. one hundred and one hundred and
fifty pound sacks, but this is also shipped
in bulk when desired by customers
ROCK SALT FOR STOCK.
Lately new branch OF she salt business
has been added in q building adjoining.
Here is manufactured what is called the
com pressed sulphurized rock salt-used for
stock. The ingredients ore IS per cent of
pure ground dairy salt and per cent of
The best flour sulphur. This Is compressed
Into square fifty-pound blocks. through the
center of which there is 8 hole ia order
that the block may be staked TO the ground
In localities convenient to or on the cattle
range. Mr.. Morgan says the beauty of this
last named article is that IL is free from
ali impurities, and the danger existing in
the use of common rock salt for cattle is
thus avoided. 1t is highly recommended
rs g preventive of diseases of horses, cat
tie or sheep, particularly the latter. The
blocks are nade with or without the sui
phur, as may be desired. They are first
moulded and then placed in kilns. After
being subjected TO temperature of
$50 degrees for several days they
come out as hard almost as q brick, and
yet almost II not quite as smooth as glass.
THE COMPANY.
The Inland Crystal Salt company sue
eeecec TO the business aud plant of the
Inland Salt company, which Yves the first
to 20 into the industry on large scale.
The purchase price was 500, 900, and since
then there has been about $780, 900 more ez-
pended. the triplex purifier and cleaner
Rlone, which is the only machine of its
kind il the world, costing some IS. 600. To
fhii magnificent piece OF machinery is due
the purity OF the salt now made by the
company.
AS an evidence Of the magnitude Of the
business done Dy the company, it is but
necessary &c state that in
the year 1891, it paid the
Union Pacific $420, 600 for transportation of
freight, and il has been carefully estimated
that the crop this year will not fall far
short of $50 900 toms
And all this has been going on, almost in
opr midst. and but comparatively few peo-
pie knew Rught Of the real facts in the
case.
With q. few more such energetic COM
panies engaged in other nome industries
that might be made equally as successful,
Salt Lake would certainly come to the