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Show POTASH FOUND IN DEAD SEA WASH INGTON, (U. P. ) Enormous Enor-mous supplies or potash can be easily extracted from the waters of the Head Sea, according to scientists scien-tists here. The Dead Sea is the sinkhole of the world. Iiv no other continent Is there such a deep depression de-pression In the earth's crust. The record seems to Indicate that Palestine Pales-tine and tho whole western end of Arabia rose from the sea a million or more yenrs ngo. in what geologists geol-ogists term the Tertiary sen. Shortly Short-ly nfler tho rise it seems a great slice of tho land parallel to the coast of the Mediterranean sank to great depth, forming the huge rift valley, "(he Ghor," now occupied by the Jordan river and the Dead Sea. "The Dead Sea depression hnving no outlet, ail the salts contained in the large original inland sea were routined when ovajiorntion reduced the volume of the body of water to its present dimensions. "Whoren.t ocean water contains about one-twentieth of its weight in dissolved solids, the solids in solution solu-tion in the Head Sea water make up one-fourth its weight. Potassium cloridc makes up about one-fifteenth of tho total solids hut common salt is fully five times ns plentiful. |