The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-01
FROZEN OUT BY
THE SALT TRUST
Two More Independent Concerns
Decide to Quit.
CLAYTON TALKS GL00MILY
SAYS BUSINESS rs BAD AND COM
BINE WANTS 1T ALL.
CLAYTON TALKS GLOOMILY

Two more Independent salt companies
decided yesterday to go out of bust
ness. The stockholders of the Solar
Crystal Salt company met in special
session in the Nauvoo block to consider
the proposition OF selling the company's
property and winding up its corporate
affairs. The votes were all in the af-
firmatlve, and it vas decided to call
for bids from prospective purchasers,
the proposals to be opened Jan. 20, to
which time the meeting adjourned. The
property Of the Solar company consists
of a mile Of shore line and q good
plant for gathering salt at Syracuse,
but it has not been operated for several
years.
lust before the shareholders Of the
Solar company met the stockholders of
the Jeremy Salt company had a special
meeting to consider the same sort of
a proposition. The Jeremy. company's
plant and evaporating ponds are To-
Gated some distance north OF Saltair,
and like the Solar company's property
and others along the lake shore, has
not been operated for a long time past.
However, no action was taken by the
Jeremy shareholders beyond deciding
TO await the results OF probable nego-
hations by the Solar company for the
disposal Of its property. This meeting
adjourned till Jan. 20.
Colonel Clayton q Bear.
In discussing the salt industry's con-
ditior, Colonel Clayton Of the Inland
Crystal Salt company, in whose office
the meetings were held yesterday,
stated that there was no money in the
business and all Of the independent OPP
orators would be glad to sell out 10 the
big concern. In justification Of his as
sertiOn, he cited that the market for
Utah salt is limited. being confined to
between Colorado points and the coast.
At one time IL was anticipated that
100000 tors yearly Of Utah salt would
be shipped to Missouri river points, but
before the hope was realized the salt
wells at Hutchinson. Kan, commenced
producing on a prOdigiOus scale. An
other citation by Colonel Clayton was
that formerly $4,000 tons yearly went to
The quartz mills IN this and adjoining
mining states, but row, by the appli-
cation of different methods Of reducing
free ores charged with sulphur and
through the closing down of many of
such mills, the demand has dwindled
to 10000 tons
Threat from the Trust.
The output of Utah salt during the
past year was only 10000 tons, said
Colonel Clayton. He declared that no
company could compete with his in the
marketing of salt, nor would they be
permitted, as a means Of self-preserva-
tion to the Inland company, to cut
into his cOmpany's business.
Besides the concerns mentioned, the
basins and gathering plants on tire
shores Of Salt lake are the Diamond
cOrlpany's north Of Saltair, which was
started Up last summer; Thomas
Weirs, at the south end of the lake;
the Sears and Rich plants, west Of
Pennington; the Chesney, Bills &
Payne plant, farther north, and a small
plant at Deweyville, in Box Elder
county. Colonel Clayton said that none
of these plants is doing any large
amount of business. If cut rates were
put into effect, the Inland company
would soon sell salt at a loss to hold
its patronage, he added.