6 THK STASSFURT INDUSTRY, 



increased from year to year and made Stassfurt again the centre of 

 vast commercial and manufacturing industries. To-day it employs in 

 round numbers 30,000 laborers, not to mention chemists, engineers, 

 superintendents, clerks, and the like, and the large number elsewere 

 now engaged in handling its products. 



From small beginnings and through varying fortunes this once 

 quaint little town has become a great industrial centre, from which 

 hundreds of thousands of tons of Potash Salts are annually shipped, 

 carrying hundreds of thousands of tons of agricultural fertility to all 

 the civilized lands of the world. Sixty odd large Potash mining estab- 

 lishments supply crude material, and the large chemical works at 

 Stassfurt and vicinity produce an enormous output of Potash products. 

 These establishments are commercially united under the name of 



THE GERMAN KALI WORKS. 



