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3 3 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom Sod om and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven But Lots Lot's wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt Gen 19 24 24 2426 26 And the Lord unto Moses saying Your South quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom and your South border shall be the outmost coast of the Salt Sea eastward lard I Num 34 1 3 3 1 As they that bare the ark were coming unto Jordan and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in in the brim of the water The waters which came down from above stood and rose up and those that came down toward the sea of the plain even the Salt Sea failed fail cd and were cut off Jos 3 15 IS 16 1 t HE Dead Sea which for five thousand j years ears TilE T I has borne the most evil reputation of any spot on the earths earth's surface is to be re reclaimed re- re reclaimed reclaimed claimed at last by modern science for the th good goodof l of humanity On its Northern shores where once stood Sodom and Gomorrah G immense factory labom factory labora- labora 43 ton tori i will ill soon be built to turn the chemical salts from its pestilential waters into road road build build build- buildIng building ing material fertilizers and useful drugs dru f Dr Ellsworth Huntington of Yale Vale University a few months ago aio took a boat out outon on on the Dead Sea which lies twelve thousand feet below the oceans ocean's level among the arid and mountains and md deserts of central Palestine lie He nearly paid for that temerity with his life not life not because of ship ship- shipwreck shipwreck shipwreck wreck but the noxious feverish exhalations e Tho The only two other men who ever set sail upon it in in modern mO lern times Costigan and failed to I survive the adventure Dr Huntington however and other scientists scientists I who were content to carry carryon on their analysis and explorations near its shores have estimated estimate that there are aie more m rc than forty million tons of or useful chemicals in in the Dead Seas Sea's water and that by the establishment of laboratories and f factories at t its Northern end the end the very cry spot where the Lord rained down fire and brimstone on Sodom Sod om and Gomorrah and where Lots Lot's wife wile t looking back was turned into a t. t pillar of salt salt salt- this enormous treasure can be reclaimed In modern times until the World War the Dead Sea together to ether with the whole Jericho valley va was a part of the Ottoman Empire and was also I considered a II part of the personal holdings of the Sultan arious Various Sultans including Mohammed Mohammed I med toed VI 1 and Abdul Hamid the Red Sultan i had schemes for using the waters of the River Jordan in gigantic impractical irrigation at on pro projects pro pro- jests jeet but nothing ever cr came of it and the land remained as desolate as it was in the days of I Abraham At the conclusion of the World War how how- however however ever the British took lock over both Palestine and and this territory is is gradually I being opened up Motor cars now travel where hera only camel caravans C journeyed before and Zionist Zion Zion- Zionist r 1st colony farms firms are springing up on desert edges where even goats and camels starved And now government negotiations are in progress in m London Lundon for reclamation reclamation of the Dead Sea as well I II Y y Syr as a n part of the general economic reclamation of Palestine One of the chief constituents of the Dead Sea Seawater Seawater water atei is potash an m important chemical base of fertilizers fertilizer but other salts halts are arc present too too too- magnesium mag compounds used in cements calcium salts used in road making bromide used in in medi medi- medicine medicine medicine cine and a dozen others Their extraction will willbe willbe willbe be undertaken by the same meth meth- methods methods methods now successfully successfully used on a smaller scale in Americas America's own Dead Sea Sea of salt brines bimes at Searles Lake California The idea of most people that tint the Dead Sea is simply an inland lake somewhat more sore salty than th n the ocean oce n does not begin egin to approximate frT sr y r S 1 t i a 1 i f 1 I Ii i 4 J An n Oriental Beauty I Li iving Near the Present Daj Da y Site of Sodom Sod m. m Girls of This Tins Type T pc Will i Assist the Scientists in Their Surveying L I n h d dArid I B I Arid Shore of the Dead Sea with bore Above an Artiste Artist I fantasy l of the I Futuristic Factory l ac ory Buildings and I I Laboratories That May fay Arise Anse in in the ISe Ae 1 e r I 3 and Startling Project Protect I I r r W I RECLAMATION 5 E- E t 0 AREA It Q 4 a T c ii V or E A. A rL 1 1 0 0 5 10 SCALE o OF MI L Map lap of the Dead Sea Region Showing Sho the Reclamation Zone with Important Neighboring Cities Indicated the extraordinary realty The Dead Sea is literally liter liter- literally literally ally dead deader than any desert mountain mountain- crag or cave No fish of any sort swim swim in in its turgid waters no shell shell fish fish worms or any living creatures inhabit its oozy beds even the hardy weeds Meeds that thit grow in salt marshes elsewhere shun the desolation of its shores No life of any an sort either animal or vegetable can survive its acrid quality The waters of the ocean which actually t taste like brine as well as being called the briny deep by poets contain only four and j J a half per ner cent of or salts bus bu the waters of or the Dead Sea contain twenty-five twenty per cent of salts which means that the liquid is is one one fourth fourth solid thicker than many sorts of or soup A Astick Astick Astick stick of wood lies almost entirely uns d don on the surface as if the water were the top of a table With a human being b ing it isn't a aw ati w ti M matter matler of being beine able to float it is impossible to sink The water of the Dead Sea has a heavy n l rl F. F t r. r disagreeable oily oil feeling due to the presence of chloride of calcium and a most disagreeable taste caused bj by b the chloride of magnesium It Itis Itis Itis is is is chiefly this latter chemical which makes it impossible for any fish to live in it No land animals will go 0 near it and even to this day when surrounding territory territory l is being reclaimed rapidly by the British and Zionist col col- colonists colonists colonists the only human beings who venture near the Dead Sea unless drawn there as Dr Hunt Hunt- Huntington Huntington Huntington ington was for scientific exploration are occasional occa occa- occasional occasional tribes of nomad Bedouins But nut now that modern scientists are making n a thorough exploration of this desolate locality many of the strange tales and legends brought back by medieval travelers are proving to be partially true For instance there was a story told by Jose- Jose Josephus Josephus Josephus that not only was it fatal to venture upon the tho Dead Sea in in boats but that not even en the birds dared fly over it because it-because because of the noxious and poisonous vapors Dr Huntington found JL I LATEST CHEMICAL ANALYSiS ANALYSIS OF F I THE WATER OF THE DEAD SEA I Specific gravity at 15 5 centigrade Calcium carbonate grams grains I I. I i I Calcium sulphate I Magnesium nitrate Potassium chloride Sodium chloride I II Calcium chloride Magnesium chloride Magnesium bromide fi I II I Iron and aluminium oxides 10 1050 50 B I Organic ganic matter I Ital Total tal residue per gallon 00 grains I II I indeed that today after more than two thousand thousand years when Josephus made his observations there 1 were no birds of any sort above the surface of the Dead Sea but suggests that it wasn't due dueso dueso to the fact that thit there so 60 much to the vapors as were no fish to attract the birds As for the I poisonous air air which broods over the sea and I I which caused the death of Costigan C and Mol Mol- I 1 I 1 it seems not to be a poison actually exhaled ex ex- exhaled haled by the chemicals in the poison black and lInd stinking 11 water but rather a miasmic mist n J Scientific explorers have also discovered another extraordinary and significant fact about the Dead Sea which rationalists and even some modernist ministers of extremely advanced views suspect may ma offer a natural explanation of the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah They have discovered that at certain seasons of the year thick oily coatings 3 of highly highl inflammable inflammable mable bitumen almost as inflammable as naph naph- naphtha naphtha y tha and a close cousin to petroleum float close to the shores It is is supposed to come from water under-water strata of bituminous marl Now 1 0 Sodom and Gomorrah reputed the wickedest cities of all nil antiquity were known as the the Cities of the Plain and stood side by side on low Jow lowground i ground close to the waters water's edge The Bible tells telU how Abraham shocked by bythe bythe bythe the dreadful wickedness of these cities pra prayed d to the Lord not to destroy them saying saving that he be could find perhaps fifty righteous rig men teen in in them and that for the sake of these the cities cHies might be spared But the Lord sent angels to investigate investigate investigate gate and found only one righteous man man ratan Lot Lot knew that the city was to be destroyed by fire and tried to persuade his sons sons law in law to re repent re- re repent repent pent and flee with him but they mocked him I m. m bo So 0 Lot fled from the city with his wife wile and amI daughters and aDd as they raced up the mountain mountain- mountainside moun in and the side there was a great conflagration cities were burned burn rd But now at last after five thousand years jears this desolate spot certainly cursed by nature and perhaps also by direct divine wrath is to be transformed by science into a treasure house of materials reclaimed for modern civilization C M Mh la GI i II b h y |