The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-30

eral government was registering an OBJ
lection TO railroad companies. owning or
officials were n bit sqlieamish about FL
ing on the land and starting develop
ments. For time there was an effort
made TO keep from ;he public the great
discovery. for by that time the officers
OF the company had extended iDvestisa-
tions to point where the value OF the
discovery WAS fully revealed.
Secrecy could moi be maintained Fol-
lowing the time u was made public a
company was organized. This was early
In 1906. At the outset the company was
then the property has been left undc-
veiopcd under the restraining order OF
the Utah courts.
Rights Undisturbed.
BY virtue of the granting of the in
junction. the salt company was not only
restrained from proceeding with devcl-
opnent plans but was released from the
obligation of making the yearly inn
iprovemeDts required under the placer
law. As result the property has been
for nearly five years mo mans land"
Pending the decision of the supreme
court the land has not been subject To
the rights OF the original locators and Il
company VIII begin where IL left of In
1905, TO develop the property
Theory Is Advanced.
Biologists have explained the pres
tDtc OF tne vast bCd oil pure salt by
showing that at one time that area was
the bed OF an inland sea OF salt water,
More peculiar and wonderful that .the
formation OF the bed, originally. prob
ably Is the theory of the constant repro
duction OF the bed of salt almost. as
rapidly as 1t IS removed II is said that
excavations made for. the removal OF salt
will he found TO be filed with the same
quality Of salt in two or three months
time. II this he true the supply practi-
cally is ineNhaustibe
Since the salt discovery and The COM
pletion OF tic Western Pacific thai rail-
road company has. used with effect. rs
an advertising medium. pictures Of the
great salt deposits -Glistening pure white
in the sun, the cXpanSe of the ocean Of
spread evenly over Tie ground. Win
out the railroad the deposit would be
inaccessible. as the stretch of desert for
more than 100 miles west. from the, Great
Salt lake is beyond the possibility Of
habitation Plant l!fe is unknown. Tray
avoided the desert as they did Death
valley. With the coming OF, the rail-
road the desert has surrendered It's
wealth and no longer leads the traveller
Effect on Market.
What effect the decision may have on
the salt ma :kets OF the world is problem
atical. The policy ~ The, Montelo
company is not known, as the fun text
OF the courts decision has not been given
out. Untll the management Of the COM
pany learns the full purpose Of the dc
cision no information viii be given out.
However,. the general opinion prevails
that II the company should conclude TO
push forward improvements and develop
the field. erect reiinerles and the like, the
effect will be difficult 10 estimate. From
the deposits In sight IL is asserted that
the company could supply The whole
world with salt. Independent of all other
companies. With an advantage no other
company possesses. the Montellp com
pany could flood the markets OF the
world. as the process OF formation has
been performed by nature and the almost
pure material can be passed from its
resting place TO the Telneries with little
cost OF handling.
DR.. Talmage's Views.
Members of the university faculty, in
Guiding Dr. j. Ts KiDgsbury. president OF
the university, were not n, the city Nor
day and their estimate of the loss to the
university in the way OF "a permanent
endowment could not be obtained. Dr. j.
u. TalmaSe. In response to a request to
give his opinion OF the loss 10 the state
university, said: 81 have not gone Into
the question of the commercial value of
this property. or course ! know the
university in losing the case has lost
property that would have been of great
value In establishing permanent en-
dowment fund. The real value to the
university had IL secured title to the
land would depend or the ability pf the
university TO market the salt
In the light of the operating com
panies, now active being unable 10 ind
a market for their. products, II would
value on the property Undoubtedly 1t
would be an unusual asset for the uni
versity and Will grow In value in the
passing OF years. .....;