Show MEXICO S VAST SODA LAKES he government will not dispose of them to anyone mexico Is the possessor of such and valuable soda lakes that the vern ment refuses to dispose of them anyone or at any price president laz believing that they are yet to beime sources of enormous income to e country just the nitrate of soda ids are to at only one other place la the world natural soda found under conditions hibb admit of industrial develop ent and even there it must be lipped hundreds of miles by rail and any tons of water must be evajo ted by coal to obtain a ton of the but at the gay of adair only a mile m the coast of lower california ider tl e blazing sun of the desert lie lanes of crystals of carbonate of da with the appearance of masses auw ind ice but from which will i made millions of tons of soap and her millions of tons of glass the world s consumption amounts hundreds of thousands of tons annu ly and nearly all of it is red from common salt with the use expensive machinery while at lair bay nature does all the work in educing an article worth 75 per n it Is estimated that there Is bough soda on top of the ground to aduce tons a day tor 75 years |