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Show A Clay Adulterant. A St. Wife gentleman was met at one of the hUels jeatirday who suites that In several counttt-ol MiMtounawholesaleuuslne-s in an adulterant known as baryte, is carried on to an extent which has become .ilmott alarming. The n.uue of tlie iufun.iaut is in ,s-e--sion of the lieus, but for nasous gun by himself it is not gheu at present. litspeakingoT the unati ful tr.nic, he -ay: jvtrj tes is a elieap, Ahite mineral sula4aine, whn li is foand pnucqially in tlie counties of Jtflersoii, Wa-hinton, I'rankliu, Cooper and U-age-, and is mined piiiI shipjieu braauca-t all uer the country at the rate of th..u-at)U of tons a 3 car. Although there are hundreds of mines iu os ratiou the supply kaluays less than the deiuaini. fee eral large druis in -t, Louis handle nolhiug tlsu and Inve leconie immensely wealthy uiihiii tiie last few yeai. A stiaugc feature about the nefarious Uisiness is that erj few uf the miners knon the real u-e to vtn.cu the mineral is put. It ;ees thruuli -tviral hands oefure it reaches tlie coosumer, whijh isll.eic)ple Iheiii sel-. After being taken out of the eattlt it Is broken up and 1 ulve-nzed iiiioarlue taiwdersoas to re-einble llournr A-lule lead.. It is mixed-Willi mixed-Willi man articles of fcod, suth as granulated sugnr, pin dt red suga: mhiI is al-ti exten-iely used in adulterjt.ug white hail, which n tlie la.-Li o' mineral paints. "Hut h-tin-1 riuciial reason the paints ' ir yellow much sooner now-a dav than In former e ears. It isclilpped 111 l-arreb,aiid the iple whtreit Is mined ire told that it isgjpiumor i Inttii.U 1! foruseinpaektughouses or (aintmg the canvas with whith piireii meals are covered in summer. sum-mer. "Tlie miners receive only 71 or 60 cents a day, an J many tvomeu are emjikijeil who received 53 and .TJ cents a daj Thecwners pf the land are aid a royally of 20 cents n ton. It is found within three or four feet of lite surface and is sold iu the market at $9 a ton. The retailers re-tailers receive abouta cents a ootid. I do not exaggerate when I v that hundreds of thousands of ton .if this mineral have If en shipied out of Mi-.-ouri and lliein.lu-try is trotting trott-ing every uay. It is no secret that many of the leading men of the state are intcrcted in the work and have made heavy Investments in land" and crushing machinery. For many years Germany has been sending liarytes to this countrv as ballast in the hold of ocean steamers steam-ers and tuesH Missouri men hate become be-come so bold In their operations as to ask that a duty of $lpertuiibe placed on the imported artltle. You may txpect such a law to lie Introduced In-troduced Into cocgr3 anv day. The mineral is tastelcssand actually dnwolvcs on the tongue, but tlio extent ex-tent to which It is used demands that the public should be informed concerning iu presence In the matkcL" The gentleman stated that he had visited Ibe mints and knew from personal observation -whereof he speke. Ex. |
