The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
MOVE UP A NOTCH
'Shansas Now Ranks Third in
Value of Salt Produced.
Still Fourth in the Quantity
Turned Out.
BOY WAS STRETCHED
Luther Welsh a Wonder in Many
Ways.
Great Quantities of Wood Used
in Making Paper.
BOY WAS STRETCHED

Washington, D. c., June S.-Com-
mon salt occurs in nature as rock salt
and in solution as brine. In the lat.
Ter form, 1t is found in the waters of
the ocean. in various inland seas and
lakes, and also stored in various beds
in the crust of the earth. 1t is OBJ
tanned from all these sources In the
United States
IN 19Ue the quantity of salt pro-
duced in this county amounted to 2S.-
s22,026 barrels of 2SO pounds, valued
at s7553.632; in 1907 the production
reported was 29.7O4.12S barrels. val
ued at $7,6O8,323, a decrease in the
output for 1908 of SS2.066 barrels in
quantity and of $54.691 in value
Expressed on a tonnage basis these
quantities represent an output of A.
15S,57S short tons in 1907. and of
N4,O35,OS9 short tons in 1908, a de-
! ecrease in the latter year of 123,4S9
tons.
According to a report just issued
by the United States geological sur
Vey, Kansas ranked fourth in the
quantity of salt produced in 1908,
maintaining the same relative rank
which it held in 1907; in value of
output. however, it ranked third, re-
placing Ohio, which held this posi-
ton in 1907.
''The production in Kansas for
barrels, or 1862, ,434 short tons, valued
at $SS2,9S4. Compared with the
output of 1907 of 2,667,549 barrels. or
373,444 short tons. valued at $685.
334, this was decrease for the year
1908 of 7s,645 barrels, or 11,01O
short tons. valued at $79.35O.
The average price per barrel in
1908 of Kansas salt was "a cents, or
$2.44 per ton, a slight decrease from
the values of 1907, which were re-
spectively, SO cents per barrel and
$2.5s per ton.
1.-THE localities where salt is pro-
duced on a commercial scale in Kan
sas are Hutchinson, Reno county;
Lyons and Sterling, Rice county;
Ellsworth and Kanopolis, Ellsworth
county; Anthony, Harper county;
and Kingman. Kingman county.
'Most of the manufacturers use
the grainer process, in which steam
is employed in the evaporation.
The open-pan process is also used. in
During the latter part of the year
the plant of the Kingman Salt Min
ing company. located at Kin gman,
was destroyed by fire. So far as
known, it is not the present intention
of the company to rebuild"
Four years ago there was much in
terest in little chap from Kansas
City VINO had an appointment as mid
shipman at the naval academy within
his grasp, but was short an inch
two of the required height, and who
by means of a device similar to the
rack Of the inquisition succeeded in
pulling out the reefs in his spinal col
umn until he measured up to the full
standard. The name of the ambitious
young man is Luther Welsh, who re-
ceived his diploma few days ago and
Is one of the top-notcherS in his class.
Welsh was graduated No. among
the 174 picked young men who COM
posed the class He has shown bril-
hancy in mathematics and kindred sub
iects and aptitude in languages and
other scholastic branches. Every year
he has obtained a star grade of over
s5 per cent, which was his graduating
rank. His proficiency in off1cerlike and
soldiery qualities was shown by his Sc
lection as midshipman commander of
one Of the 12 companies, and his was one
of the best drilled in the brigade.
Welsh developed as an athlete, and last
year as captain of the Lacrosse team,
won a victory over the Harvard 12 He
Is one of the popular men in his class.
Differing from all other colleges and
y educational institutions in the United
States, the students of the naval and
military academies commence the ac-
tive practice of their profession from
the day they enter the gates, and upon
their conduct and proficiency in their
studies from day to day depend their
rank and standing in the navy during
the whole of their subsequent career
And the midshipmen have very little
time to think of anything else. Few
people except those who are familiar
with naval training realize the immense
amount of ground to be covered during
the four years course of study and
practical work at the academy and a
layroan@ Shudders when he reads the
curriculum the 900 young men there
are pursuing.
They are closely confined to the
grounds; they have little leisure for
recreation and social contact almost
- Il. y.
to some given subject and every mid
shipman eats, drinks. studies, exer-
cises and plays by schedule and the
notes of a trumpet Nevertheless they
have a good deal of fun combined with
their work. Wit and humor ooze
through the regulations here and there.
Two hundred and fifty-one pulp mills
in the United States used 3,346,106
cords of wood. and made 2.11S,947 tons
of pulp last year. Spruce has always
been the leading pulp wood, and it fur
nished sixty-four per cent of the total
quantity used. The rapid development
Of the wood pulp industry in the last
ten years has rendered the domestic
supply of spruce insufficient to meet
the demands upon it, and consequently
, importations from Canada have been
heavy In 1903 our pulp mills consumed
nearly one and one-half million cords
of domestic spruce and over go, 600
cords of imported spruce, making the
imports of spruce forty-five per cent of
the domestic supply.
Next to spruce, the most important
pulp wood is hemlock; 569,173 cords of
1t were converted into pulp last year
All the hemlock used was of domestic
origin. and most of it was produced in
the lake states and Pennsylvania. AL
though now used in less quantity than
pruce and hemlock. poplar has long
been a standard pulp wood. A small
quantity of poplar is imported but by
ar the larger portion Of the more than