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PRODUCTION OF BORAX.Decrease In the Price—What it is ITsedfor.wPL/•.l *rThe price of commercial borax has greatly decreased during the past three years. It 3an be bought now for half what it cost in 1882. Then the market rlt;ite was eleven cents a pound. This falling off in price has continued notwithstanding the imposition of a tariff which virtually prohibits the importation of borax and boracie acid. It has been due therefore to the consumption not keeping up with the supply. The production of borax on the coast, which is the only part of this country where it is found, has been steadily verjr large. Last year 4,-500 tons were extracted by the various bo*rax mining companies in this State and Nevada. Its use has not grown more limited, out it has not kept pace with the produc-;Ioa. It is employed in welding, glazing, pottery and cleansing. The iron trade con sumes the largest quantity of borax, and with the increase of that industry the business of borax mining will be benefited. New uses are being found for this mineral. At first it was thought fit only for iron-i workers and blacksmiths. Its detersiveproperties were revealed afterward. The manufacture of glazed iron and earthenwareiwas begun after other virtue* were discovered in borax, and now it is employed in packing meats in Chicago. Notwitbstand-I Lng the supply from Italy, large quantities j of borax are exported to Europe from the Pacific coast. Last week 775,000 pounds j were shipped from this port to Liverpool. \ Some of the London illustrated papers coo- £ tain flaming advertisements in true American style, lauding the virtues of soaps made from California borax. Boracic soaps and borax in the shape it comes from the mines are admirable cleansers. A piece ofborax dropped into the water renders it pleasant to wash in. The supply on this coast is practically inexhaustible, as when crude borax is removed from the field* where it is found a renewal of it ensues. Most of the mineral deposits of this regioc uarry borax in a crude form, and consequently there are many borates from which the pure borax is obtained. The crude borax of this coast is of a high quality. The largest supply comes from Teel marsh, in the Candelaria district, Nevada. The field has been worked the longest and has given the greatest yield of any on the coast. There is a big marsh, twelve miles long, in San Bernardino and several in Mono, Lake and other counties. The depression now existing in the borax trade will, it is thought, he gradually removed.—San . Francim Ghro?iicle.
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Elizabethtown Post
Elizabethtown, New York, US
Thu, Dec 24, 1885
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