OUR GREATEST PLANT FOOD 



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PURE "phosphate rock 

 A prehistoric shark's tooth, natural size, found in Florida phosphate mine 



teeth, large and smal 



Millions of such 

 are shoveled out by the big mining dredges 



ing off-hand statements as to unlimited 

 supplies of a mineral and inexhaustibility 

 of deposits, he felt called upon as a 

 geologist to challenge such statements. 

 By training the geologist was better fitted 

 to see deeper into the ground than a law- 

 yer could, and to estimate farther ahead 



in the matter of mineral deposits or 

 supplies. 



In this discussion the western attorneys 

 denied that there was any intention of 

 securing these lands for the purpose of 

 exporting phosphate. It appears, how- 

 ever, at the very time that Director Smith 



