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Show ISfale Chemist and State Food and Dairy Commissioner Make Inspection. THIS DUK TO COMMUNICATION APPEARING IN THE TRIBUNK Two Experts Accompanied by r Tribune Representative and Others Investigate. In The Tribune nf Friday appeared i communication from William Jones iu which lie said: 72(1 i lor Tribune I am a reador of your paper, when obtainable, and notice the articles about Sulla I r. which are right, lint one vcrv Important fact Is overlooked, over-looked, viz., tho toilets are dumped In the lake and people bathe In tho lllth, and tho water Is pumped Into salt ponds and nvaporatcd Into salt- This looks like a. good case for tho stntc food Inspector. Yours, etc., WM. JONES. This ' communication resulted in a special trip of State Chemist Harms and Stale Food and Dairy Commissioner Hansen to the resort on Friday. These gentlemen extended an invitation to tho newspapers of the city to accompany accom-pany them. A representative of The Tribune was one of the party who made !he trip to the beach. Tho party consisted of tho gentlemen named and Dan Oollct't, secretary of the JWanufac; lurcrs' association, and 0. S. .Jnekson of tho Inland ('rystal Sale company. At the beach every facility was offered of-fered the party to make a thorough inspection in-spection of the resort and a launch was placed at (ho service of tho party for the purpose. The Tribune is always willing t'o give the devil his due, it. is nlwaj's fair, hence it frankly states that its correspondent, Mr. Jones, is mistaken mis-taken when he savs that the toilets are dumped into tho lake. I Septic Tanks Constructed. Tho management of the resort, early in the spring had septic tanks made and placed in position to rnro for the toilets. These tanks arc of solid concrete, are three in number, on each side of the pavilion, but not accessible . from the bath' rooms, and are, according to Professor Harms and Commissioner Hansen, tho best and most complete san-tary san-tary arrangements that can be had. 1'hey arc air tight and there is a germ .hat lives in ilicso a;r tight compartments compart-ments that destro3's all the solids that jre poured in. The conlents arc siphoned into the three compartments nnd when the wafer pours out into the lake from the third one it is clear as jrvstal. At the pumping station of tho salt 'oinpany there is a lank about twenty feet iu depib in the water and tho tvatcr that is pumped from the lake 'piuos from the bottom of this tank when it is sent through the flume into lhe salt ponds. While the toilets, as said, are not dumped into the Jake it should bo said that these toilets are outside the pa-.'ilion pa-.'ilion upon which the bath houses are located, and in this pavilion no provision pro-vision of auy kind is mado for the bathers, hence of the thousands who are said to bath at tho resort there is no provision mado for them and the result is that a great many nuisances are necessarily committed that' cannot be otherwise than a detriment to bathers bath-ers and cause more or less filth to be carried into the water. Spiders In Plenty. As to the spiders atf the resort there is no question about them and they are of all sizes, while their webs are spun everywhere. Mr. Langford said to The Tribune that he was dong everything in his power t"o eradicato the insects, that sprays were being used, nicotine was being tested on Friday and that men were employed to sweep the pillars and uprights in the- endeavor to rid the place of the dangerous pests, and that he believed he would succeed. He declared that he was confident this would be done if there was a lake full, as the eggs which the insects laid would be hatched out anil the cold of tUc winter would freeze out tho insects. ' |