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Show Salt Worth Its Weight In Gold in Some Areas A few cents buys a packet of salt in this country. Its very abundance abun-dance here makes it difficult for us to realize its value to mankind. man-kind. The fact is that salt is one of the most precious products in the world, and in desert areas it is literally worth its weight in gold. Intrinsically, "it is even more valuable, for gold cannot buy health, but salt can maintain it. The famous trlrveTIer, "AT TscnTT"! fely, who rode horseback from Buenos Aires to Washington, says that when journeying in desert regions, re-gions, acting on the advice of natives, na-tives, he always carried a bottle of lemon juice mixed with salt water to save him from fatigue. |