Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-03-24 | Page 9 | World's Oldest Industry

WORLDS WORLD'S OLDEST INDUSTRY Salt alt OI In lit the Sea Sla S Survival III I I of Ancient nl A I tid its t lr ry There are aro In iii the Holy Land bul but Yew Tow ant and these of or the most primitive kind The Tile awful desolation of the Dead Sea ea however howo which Her nearly thirteen hundred feet below the II levil of the Mediterranean Is broken here and theme thelo by h tile alt all divers divers- as ancient ancien as us work wL Is probably wh Ne tue tho human race lace Itself Iu From remotest tho salt sait of the Dead sea sen c est cst t antiquity hits hils been collected and brou brought hl to lo tile the J Jerusalem erum where il It Is Is used wed domet domestic U pur for curing hides and fot for poses hoses to c 25 5 Dead Dea sea ca water Valor contains over o per ocr cent of or solid substances of 7 per ocr cent I is chloride of or sodium or common tall salt It Il Is chloride of or magnesium mag mas- which gives I CM the water its Us horribly horribly hor hor- bitter taste while the he chloride of calcium makes mi it feel eel t smooth and that after lh tile the oily lo tu the touch louch M so very vety curious sensation of or a bath hath Inthe In Inthe the Dead sea the thu skill akin retains an ol oily sensation Tho Time Dead sea contains no living into Its Us water creature sea ca fish put speedily die Not ot a u. single boat navigates nay nav It its strange c nOl is there fin alt any sign algil of life lIe save thu Isolated pur- pur tics lles lie of or salt roll divers dl who scrape and slowly amass their precious glistening of ur tilt till mouth heaps of or crystal near time the Jordan J ord an Wh 1 a l. l cargo la fJ mid a a. long Ions string o of caneL nw croe coc t tim the e di rt and aad the the- ha salt aIt t 1 Ii is loaded ad d u up ur into t or cr V 1 and tian taken tak tia en n iro itc I thc tho t J 1 Vier w r It find 1 1 L 1 r u-a-J u 1 m Technical 1 W r d Magazine la lne