Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-28 | Page 10 | Borax King Visits Tonopah District

BORAX KING VISITS TONOPAH DISTRICT Christian B. Zabriskle, the borax kinff of the world, who is just as chummy with his old-time pals as in the days agone in Candelaria, drifted into camp this morning morn-ing and is pojng- to spend still another day renewing old associations and wising; wis-ing; up to the Divide situation, in which he is interested as one of the heaviest stockholders of the Tonopah & Tidewater railroad, says the Tonopah Bonanza. Mr. Zabriskie is proud of the fact that he has one of the best forces of miners in the United States in spite of the fact that the scene of operations is in Death valley, where, it is reported, the mercury has broken out on the roof of the thermometer ther-mometer on a few occasions. He says this is because he treats them right and therefore has the same crew from year to year, with scarcely a chang-e, and a long waiting list from men who want to get employed. The boarding house operated oper-ated by the company sets a better all-round all-round table' season in and season out than the Palace hotI in San Francisco, and the men are furnished with entertainment enter-tainment by visiting companies and the best movies twice a week and billiard and pool tables for spare hours. The plant in the valley is running to capacity for the first time in history, although it -has been customary to close down during July and August. The borax production at present is on the basis of 500 tons a month. Six roasters and an ice plant are kept busy at Death Valley Val-ley Junction with an output of borax of 150 tons daily.