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Show ( WEALTH F,ROM THE PACIFIC. Valuable Products from Sea Water on ' Our Western Coast. ' Callfornlans have solved the problem prob-lem of the alchemists and are making gold out of sea water. The golden state Sis taken golCen treasure out of h mountains, has mnde' her valleys val-leys yield millions of dollars' worth of golden fruit, has nmassed tourist gold lu exchange for her sunshine, nnd now turns tp the great lazy Paclfc ocean and ransacks Its coffers. r Tiere Is no nwh of prospectors to the new field, however, as the gold Is coming out or the sea In the'fomi of salts of polBbslum, magnesium nnd bromide, which would eludu the pan nnd the rocker of the prospector Of several "diggings of this nature one at least Is active and prosrero.is and one is approaching activity. Tho 8au Pedro Salt company, which 10-cently 10-cently entered Into tho field, has s ic-ceeded ic-ceeded in manufacturing a quantity mnd quality of gait which has found a ready 'market and has already assumed place among the exports ,o the port of San Pedro. I The Tact that Snn Pedro Is a ilvely and thriving port,, with almost no outgoing out-going cargoes, makes the development of this trade both easy and important 8ince the first of last year the coasting coast-ing schooners refuming to the northern north-ern coast have taken away over a thousand tons of thlr sea salt. |