| Show Indian Workers Le Left ft Tools in Salt SaI f Mines o Three great caves In a mountain of ot salt BUlt In tn Nevada have yielded relics of Indian miners who ho worked there as early as 1000 B B. B C. C The great natural salt mass stands near the town of ot St. St Thomas Nevada In a desert where rain falls Calls so seldom that it tins has remained re re- rained for tor ages without dIssolvIng which would ba have e been its fate In a moister region Underground waters however have hollowed the caverns erns In Its Interior and In n these were found foun stone hammers with wooden handles sandals of yucca fiber e carrying nets and oven even corncobs i s all perfectly ly preserved pre pre- served through the drying drIng and antiseptic anti anti- septic action of the Ule salt Most 1 of the relics date since the beginning g of ot the to h C Christian ristian h era but a carved carTed club wa was s found of a type n used led by the trio basket- basket makers the forerunners of the P present resets t to Pueblos l wh rho o Inhabited the Southwest about 1000 B. B C. C The Th salt of ot tho o I mountain Is now being mined from rom the surface by a 8 commercial firm b hy 1 the Indians chose tho the difficult a and dangerous work underground when salt V Is easily obtained outside l i Is s difficult to Imagine It is conjectured r rIt s that hat several tribes had s claims on ond 3 the mountain and an d that the trio later I 1 comers confers finding the surface working workings s i all pre empted had n no choice bu but to J e enter ter th tho o dark caverns to seek theIr h it ito i snIt salt supplies 1 s |
