Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1915 — Find Potash in California. [ARTICLE]

Find Potash in California.

The salt-incrusted valley floor commonly known as Searles Lake, in southern California, has lately come into prominence through the widespread interest in the search for an available source of potash in this country and the apparently promising prospects this locality affords of a considerable commercial production in the near future. The estimate made three years ago that this deposit contains four million tons of water soluble potash salts seems to have been amply confirmed by subsequent developments. That this amount of potash salts will actually be produced and placed on the market cannot yet be considered assured, but so far at can be Judged from evidence available it seems thkt this deposit is the most promising immediate source of commercial potash is the United States