The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
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MONEY 6ACN SRoElSTY -
A INDUSTRY.
Combination of Companies Accom-
plishes Good Results.

Combination of Companies Accom-
plishes Good Results.
Since last January the Utah salt
traffic has undergone a complete meta
mOrphosls. No longer do rival COM
panies -disastrOuSly compete for the
business of the broad intermountain 10
main-magnificent in area but Of
meager population. Early last soring
the I"ntermountain Salt company's re-
hnery was burned to the ground. and.
a little later. this mishap was followed
by q conSOlidat ton with its principal
rival-the Inland Crystal Salt COM
pany, which is the style OF the reor-
ganlZed company.
The consolidation went into effect In
May. As the IntermOuntain Salt COM
pany had a lease On the plant of the
NebO Salt Manufacturing company or
Nephi, the consequence of this union
is the control of the refined salt bust
ness by the consolidated company
Prices were advanced. where conditions
favored, TO admit d reasonable margin
of profit, which has hardly been the
case under the former order of things.
AT present the Utah salt industry is
practically confined to the operations of
the Inland Crystal Salt company.
On the close of 1887 there were 10000
tons Of salt in stock. During 1898 the
entire quantity of all grades marketed
was rs. GOO tons. The Inland Crystal
company made no new salt last year.
and only about 5000 tons were manu-
featured by small minor concerns above
them on the lake. Never. since salt was
marketed for the c~hlOrination Of ores,
was the output from Great Salt Lake
so small. 1t is the outlined policy Of
the Inland Crystal company to make
the crude article only every second
x-aar CO il NAV ha. aXnlRTQd that. 1900
viii witness a greater activity in t5is
industry.
There was some little mining Of ma
tive rock salt curing the past twelve
months, production all told amount
ing to LOCO tons OF crude product. 1t IS
believed this phase of the. salt business
Will show much better in future.
The different grades of Utah salt. and
the total of each variety marketed n
ing 1898 may, perhaps. best be indicated
in tabular form. IS follows:
Tons.
Refined 10 100
Crude salt for stock uses............. 5000
Crude salt, all other purDoses-.-.-..u,5c0
Artificial rock 400
Mined rock loo
-Sulphurized 2,CO
Total ..2S.O goo
The suIphurized salt is a cOmoara-
lively new dIl4C4G u lAd4luLd(L4LG. liz
patent for which is owned by the In
land Crystal company. This kind Of
salt contains 2 per cent sulphur, and is
used for medicinal stock purposes. for
which the demand is considerably
greater h the supply. 1t is market
ed principally among the stockmen OF
Wyoming and Colorado. and costs IS
per ton.
The price of artificial rock salt. $3.50
nor +nn - kfUh Uhan CON qrnH rn tho
rock salt taken from the mines. the
latter selling at 81 to $3.50 per ton. The
average figure placed upon the refined
salt is $40 per ton. while crude salt for
colonization purposes sells at 70 cents
per ton, and for stock, it runs as high
as So per ton.
From this summary it viii be seen
that the entire value OF the marketed
products, hat is, 25.000 tons. Afforded,
as near as may be, $136. 900. Dealers ar
different railroad points pay two or
three times this amount, as the freight
on the salt sold was SAG. 600 to S15O.OUU.
The entire cost Of manufacture was
about S42, 600
The market for these products is by
no means confined to Utah. as they are
sold in Washington, Oregon. Colorado,
Wyoming, Nevada, western Nebraska.
and even in California
On the Pacific coast Utah salt rates
higher than products made from water
from the Pacific ocean. which. wen at
home, are recognized as OF an inferior
duality. The security of Utah salt on
the Pacific coast is assured by the
heavy tariff imposed by d Dingley Dill
on imported salt. which has caused the
importation of the foreign article to
grow less yearly. In the east. however,
the Utah dealers are less fortunate. and
powerful as they are i~ntrenched. they
are unable to produce and ship pro-
ducts much beyond Colorado. on ac-
count of competition with Kansas firms
The ~sulphurized salt is steadily be-
coming more widely known, and seems
destined TO prove q larger source OF
revenue each year. The uses of the
article make it indispensable to the
western rancher, and. as this fact is be-
coming appreciated. the traffic of the
company in this speciality Will flourish
apace.