Show wealth showered upon favorites of fortune an american artist named darned mott llott traveled toi to the bilof islands in a sealing vessel a year ago to paint some pictures of seals in their native home and one day dai noticed a curious bank of sand lying close along the shore he dug into it and found beneath the sand a of bones they were sea seal hones bones millions of them which wille blind and been flung up tip by the sea red in the course of centuries further seara search has shown that thet heie 6 are miles of these hone bone deposits astorg the gh shores ore S of the islands one pile is a mile long half a mile wide and six feet deep now bones are one e of the bast of all fertilizers and the value of tile the find la Is simply gigantic far greater than that of any gold mine this brings to mind tile the case of the wandering prospector who years ago white while crossing a desert in wyoming came across the body of a horse which though it must have died long ago was still fresh and sweet the body was covered I 1 with a layer of fine dust which the prospector lecog recognized nihed as borax he saw the value of the discovery and sold imo a large packing firm in chicago chi who kept the secret for a lon longtime long gUme time today the us uses i es of borax are ara innumerable and ranse range from the preservation of food down to dressings for tired feet nod and lotions for inflamed eyes |