Show borax borax close t to 0 surface in the argentine republic are vast fields ct cf borax which are sometimes spoken of as borax mines they are not mines however as the proc ess of securing the borax is closer akin to agriculture than mining the vast flat earthy surfaces of the borax fields says a ajster writer 41 in describing the sc scene 1 themselves in ex distance or mirage and to all appearance any one square yard was amilar lin flar to any other part wherever reier reNer the cruet of tae salinas in the locality ct cf tres morros or moreno had bad been dug into twelve or fourteen inches deep there lay mases of soft white round potatoes of borax packed closely together to a depth of about eighteen inches dishing borax was just like dig ging potatoes and the borax potatoes were staked in rows on the ground just as freshly dug potatoes on a farm are laid in rows the lump lumps ot of borai borax however are probably five ur six times as numerous as real potatoes would be in the same area the lumps ct cf borax varied from the size ot of a hens hen s egg to pieces of one and two cubic feet in size they lay close below the surface and when broken nere ft ere soft looting like moist snow after lying in rows in the air subject to the intensely drying winds that swept over the plains the wet snow color became white lile e pure dry snow the lumps become hard and the weight diminished mere than half by reason of the evaporation of the water the borax then contained about 45 per cent of pure boralle acid in some places borax lay in unbroken seams fifteen to twenty inches thick |