| Show FrI A GREAT DEPOSIT ON DESERT f L f fLU LU l n n n The Tho Scientific American recently recent pub published a n descriptive article on the re salt deposit at nt Ballon Salon on the tha Colorado Desert Following Is a n por portion porton tion ton of ot the article artcle Few te render readers had hm heard of the tho Sen Bel of Salton up UJ to 19 At this lime the Colorado Conrado river broke Its Is barriers and flowed Into Inlo the tho desert esert of California flooding It to an extent of hundreds hun reds ot of square miles mies In tho vicinity of ot Salton Salon wis W one of tho largest In America the water encroached upon It 1 and for tor n a time threatened the Industry but after ater creating nn excitement which over the entire entre West It I receded ed ell The rumor was WM to the effect that tho now new sea Rea was so vast vust that thai It would chal nia the thc of ot southern Califor California The Tho deposit of ot salt BaIt at nt Salton Salon Is ono OM of ot the th eights of oC California It I lies les In u depression almost t three hundred feet derI below be ow sea level leel and was at nt some sometime ROle time In thc the bed of a n sea or ex 01 of the iho Gulf of California From I the train which passes near by the tract looks look like Iko a vast snow field ana nn In the early morning Is frequently the cen of ot beautiful mirage effects Tha call 11 deposit which la Is essentially rocK roc salt si covers about one thousand acres acre Is nt present the center of ot Interest on account of the dispute of ot rival com companies over oer the possession slon of oC the prop properly property erly erty The Thc company compan has bal shipped from this annually two thousand tons of salt sni valued at It from 0 6 to 3 per ton wording to 10 quality The nun nu of the tho sail sal mine consists mainly oi 01 crusher a 1 drying buying an nn dummy dumm lino Ino from the tho salt MI bc s to tW I Southern Pacific railroad n 1 t far dl d tanto The Th work Is m n mainly maIn i b Indians who can CM withstand th nn tt Inter heat hent of ot the O deBi legs s In ju and tho glare better beter than IP In The work Is interesting and nuvel Ind if drying house Is nel j a building w 0 feet i 1 length about which hundreds of or tha thou sands of ot tons tanH of ot salt sni arc heap iJ haur hall all ni the appearance of rno H 1 a i isalt t salt Is dried milled Tho sail Ball collected nt first with wih u 1 pl n 1 la machine with four In if th of which sits nn al gui gUll Ing In It the motive power ii 1 a 1 engine some distance aw 1 ly I hauls tho plow along by b r A bh s As passes the steel sel breaker HP I p n ti tia U Un 1 a n broad but hu t Shallow furr Curr ight f and Ild throe feet Ceet long th Ih mn In uj u the thc ridden on cither sid In mm r follow along with wih hoot hoc up u r irl fb salt sal In pyramidal f 11 i ii 1 i t transported to the mill mi U l i h r r v tons ions of ot salt sail per day 1 A s ng I J lar Nature t of oC this be it I tb t th ti i f 11 l lIs Is being deposited dally ly ip 1 ln which run tun Into the tho b ln 1 LS th water wlter evaporates It 1 u u i t o almost t pure chloride of d 8 s Hum wh ranges from ten 10 to twenty J Id I t over the lake lako I t l i there Is no danger f C xh u II the supply which Is I f t T r i hj 1 time and In point ot or fa la r rhae have hae In the past yearn ear w wrt r 1 a aIm continuously continuous over the 61 urra i about ten acres having ben rl pI rd r |
