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Show Sodlnm Sulphate in Salt Lake. A member of the Geological Survey says that Salt Lake will be of great value in the near future, not only on account of the common salt it will produce, but also for the sodium sulphate it contains. The latter is separated in a flocculent precipitate precipi-tate by the cold weather of midwinter, and annually thrown up on the shore in enormous quantities. There are many other lakes in the far West whence an inexhaustible supply of alkalies maybe obtained at small cost, Mono Lake, Cal., alone being estimated to hold over 78,000,000 tons of sodium' carbonate. |