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PROFIT FROM DEAD SEA FRUIT.

USE OF THE CHEMICAL RESOURCES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

common

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927.

The decision to take definite ac pal stagea. In the first after the crystallization of the salt will carnallite. There is, therefore, it tion with regard to the chemical stage the resources of the Dead Sea was the be crystallized out and the mother le doubt that, if the production of result of reports by experts, fo- liquor drained off into the carnal-potash is successful commercially, cluding the Geologist of the Palea-te crystallizing tanks. In the the producing company will under- tine Government, who have estimat-second stage the carnallite will be take to extract bromide, which, at led the quantities of salts as follow, crystallized and the mother liquor its present price, will be a lucrative in millions of metrle tons:-Potas-drained off and allowed to flow back business in the case of the Dead slum chloride,, 2,000; magnesium into the Dead Sea, unless, later on, Sea.

The mother liquor from the Bnal bromids, 980; sodium chloride, as manufacture develops, some por- PROCESS EXPLAINED.

11,900; magnesium chloride, 22, tion of it is used for the produc- crystallization of the caruallite 000; calcium chloride, 6,000. For tion of magnesium, calcium chlo- solution will be pura magnesium Since the Crown Agents for the practical purposes the supply of ride, and bromide. The resulting chloride, which could be marketed Colonies put up to public tender, potash may be considered inex-solld mass of carnallite, approxi- for the manufacture of cotton two years ago, the rights to re

haustible, and this is the product mately four inches thick and con- goods, refractories, and cement cover the vast chemical resources of which makes the, Dead Sea valuable (taining 60 kilos per square metre, compounds. There is also a fair the Dead Sea, considerable pro from a commercial standpoint. may require channels cut into it market for calcium chloride, which gress has been made towards the

Before beginning any construc- to allow the enclosed mother liquors could be obtained by treatment of realization of this project-ons which is likely to have an import- tional work it will be necessary to to run off, and loosening in order the mother Ifquor from the main ant influence on economie, condi- consider how the material required to effect solution in the next pro- carnallite crop, from which the can be convoyed to the site chosen. cess of potash production. Fresh magnesium chloride would have to tions in Palestine."

Although the original tendars The ports of Palestine are Jaffa and water will be run on to the carnal- be crystallized. This product could submitted to the Crown Agents by Halfa, which are connected by rail-tu through aluicca, which will de- be sold in liquid form for prevent- the specified date, October 31, 1925, way with Beisan (at the north end compose and readily dissolve the ing dust on roads during the dry Three poselble means of trans- were all found unsatisfactory, and of the Jordan Valley) and with fine crystalline mass of carnallito season in the Near East.

port from the Dead Sen to the Me- were therefore rejected, current Jerusalem. From Belsan to the in those parts of the pan where negotiations with cortain British Dead Sea there is no rond, but from there is motion of the fluid.

In the third stage the carnallite diterranean const have been under principala (the Secretary of Stats Jerusalem to Jericho a main road is not yet in a position to divulge is maintained, for the most part, in in solution will pass into a potash consideration: a railway construct From this pan of smaller dimensions, where ed up the Jordan Valley to join the their identity) have reached an ad- Arst-class condition. vanced stage. Before the conces main road to the Dead Sea beach evaporation will go on with about Damascus-Haifa rallway at Belsan; sion can definitely be granted the is about 8,000 yards, ap that, al- the same rapidity as in the original and aerial ropeway to Jaffa over the until the solution is Judean hills; and a rope railway to "As, how prospective concessionnaire must lowing for 2,000 yards along the brine pan agree to certain conditions, both beach, It will be necessary to con- saturated in respect of potassium Beisan or Jerusalem. general and technical, and the con- struct about six miles of road, at chloride, which will crystallize out, ever, it has now been definitely de- first, in very pure crystals-pro- cided to build a regular port at currence of the Palestine and ja cost of about $3,000.

bably until at least 50 per cent. of Haifa, and in view of the prospect Transjordan Governments is neces-

the total potash has separated- of cheap electricity from the Jor- sary, the frontier between these

after which sodium chloride will dan scheme of the Rutenberg Con- with it. When the cession, it is reasonable to anti- two mandated territories running,

come down

Extracing the Salts.

chloride.

A man who described himself

The various factors involved in as it does, through the centre of utilizing the salts known to exist the Dead Sea from north to south. in the Dead Sea will be determin-stage is reached that the final cipate that an electrie railway will potassium chloride, product would be constructed from the Dead Sea .. Roughly speaking, the presented by the following conditions:-

1. Dead Sea water below a depth be less than 80 per cent. purity, to Beisan, to join up with the exist- position is that the prospective concessionnaire and the Government of 250 feet is concentrated in res were evaporation to be continued, ing line from Damascus to Haifa.

sodium the mother liquor will be run off have reached an agreement in prin- pect of common salt, or

for crystallization of the second ciple, but that certain questions of

2. After separation of the com- fraction in a second potash pan. detail will have to be cleared up bé- fore any publio announcement can mon sait it is concentrated in res- The subsequent operations for pro-

pect of the potassium-magnesium jducing a marketable potash pro- as a doctor and gave the name of be made. Any difficulties. which existed with the Palestine Govern salt known as "carnallite," and this duct will consist of piling the Charles Manners, aged 49, was "ment have been overcome, and, salt is the chief source of potash potash in about ton lots, to allow charged at Hove, Sussex, in mail thanks largely to the influence of fertilizers in France and Germany. the mother liquor to flow away, and week with the theft of a purse 3. The mother liquor, after ell exposure to the sun and air until containing money from a woman in Lord Plumer's administration, the Transjordan authorities have come minating the sodium chloride, and the salt is sufficiently dry to handle, into line with greater rapidity than carnallite, contains valuable salts, the composition of which is un- one might have expected.

The Hedjaz railway runs straight usually favourable for their extrac- -through

Transjordan territory tion and use, from north to south, and, if the

Bromide Extraction.

For every ton of 80 per cent, potash, five tons of common salt will be produced, and, if the pro

room.

He said he found the purse a Hove dental surgery waiting on the steps of the house. The police said that beyond the fact that he said he was a doctor who 4. At a depth of 250 feet and be

had been struck off the register, finger printa project now under consideration low all the salts of the Dead Seaduction of potash ever reaches the man had refused to give any Ray- creates a large export trade in (excluding the valuable bromides) 100,000, tons, the disposal of 600,- information. He potash, there is a possibility that are present as chlorides and, there 000 tons of salt will have to be con- had been taken, and from these this line may eventually link up the fore, extraction of pure salts is sidered. The possibility of mar- he had been identified as Dead Sea with the Gulf of Akaba, much simpler than in the case of keting such a vast quantity of salt, mond Clive against whom there damage. for even a portion of it, will have were convictions for theft, beg-

and malicious and thereby create a trade route to

5. Solar evaporation is very rapid to be carefully examined by the ging.

out India and the Far East, indopen- dent of the Suez Canal with its land in twice as quick as on the company undertaking this project. Manners denied he was Clive, but

Much will depend on cheap trans- admitted convictions read heavy dues. Hence. Transjordan Palestine Mediterranean coust.

1 esse 6. A large area of Government port, but there is also the alterna- against a man named Clive with has a prospect of sharing with

Clive when Palestine the economie benefits of and exists, which is eminently suit- tive of, washing it back into the the exception of what may prove to be a most valuable for conversion into evaporat- Dead Sea. For every 100,000 tons Swindon

of potash produced, 40,000 tons of sentenced to three month's im able source of wealth, apart alte- ing pans.

The salts will.

extracted by a bromide will be returned to the prisonment for the theft of a bot- was remanded of cvaporation and Dead Sea, the greater part of which tle of wine. He crystallization in three princi- will be in the second mother liquor for a weck.

A her from her natural share in

ocean water.

the more direct results of the grant system of the concession.

at

was

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