Show NEW DREAM BORAX MINE BOUGHT BY BORAX SMITH the borax deposit in southeastern nevada recently discovered and sold to P F AT smith of oakland cal the former borax king was located as the result of a dream by mrs harry gentry st thomas nevada hotel proprietor ess who grubstaked grub staked the prospectors who located the deposit according to warran george proprietor of the st george utah arrowhead hotel the property which is on the colorado river near st thomas was sold to smith for according to mr george and the initial payment was smith is expected to again dominate the borax trade with the deposit mrs gentry in telling her story to mr george said she awoke one morning a few weeks ago with a very odd feeling over a dream she had that a borax deposit was nearby the dream was so vivid according to mrs gentry that she and hr her daughter laura grubstaked grub staked two prospectors to search for the dream mine the prospectors followed in detail the description as furnished by mrs gentrys Gent rys dream and found a gulch in which erosion had exposed on one side of the gulch a large face of borax smith learned of the discovery and immediately negotiated purchase he developed a tremendous industry on borax deposits discovered by himself and partner in death valley california but later lost control of the company the st thomas deposit is much more inore favorably located than those at death valley had bad to the death valley mines have close because of costs entailed in hauling the crude product to the railroad over a 1 long distance and increased freight rates the st thomas deposit is near the railroad to it 1 built and a spur line will be operations are expected to start very quickly on a large scale |