| Show MARVELS AT NEVADA SALT DEPOSIT ive been following the mining game for more than thirty years in a good many parts of the world and have seen some queer formations and strange pranks of nature augustus heise new york mining engineer remarked in an interview in san francisco recently but a salt deposit I 1 ran into in nevada recently beats anything I 1 ever saw before the deposit heise explained lies a few miles from fallon nev along the route of the lincoln highway and covers an area of more than 1000 acres the queer part about this deposit is that it lies in an oil district it is chemically pure salt assaying 99 per cent which means that it requires absolutely no refining nothing like it has ever been found before anywhere heise declared and you can never imagine how I 1 felt the first time I 1 saw it an illusion created by the sparkling reflection of the suns rays on the bright salt crystals bore silent testimony to natures deceptive imagery of the desert which in the illimitable stretches of the american sahara still falsely beckons and mocks the traveler 1 I walked for nearly a mile over the bed of pure salt the sound of the crunchy crunching ng crystals beneath my feet being similar to 0 that produced when treading upon ice encrusted snow the salt is produced by natural artesian springs w which aich shoot a solution of more than 50 per cent pure salt into the air |
