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Tilo Soup MJuo* of N*vw3*«Iii Novodn m o Hoveral deposits of mineral eoup. One of these lias been worked for three or four years. Tho soap is sometimes made up into cakes as it comes fjom the mine, but usually it is toned d^wn by admixture with various other soaps. In Dakota and Wyoming are also deposits of natural Boap. In regions where soda, lxrax and mineral oils ubnund it is only necessary to bring those ingredients together and a eoap mine is tho result, Hot springs asslfit materially in uniting and concentrating tho materials provided by nature. Tho soap found about hot springs is, therefore, genorully harder uml more perfect than that produced in the dry way in and uituut tlio basins of extinct lakes,Tho waters of Owens and Mono lakes are so thoroughly saturated with, borax and soda in solution that tho addition of any oleaginous matter produces soap. Tho waturaof Mono Ink©produeo myriads of grubs (which after ft time bocom© flies) which nro washed ashore, nnd in somegrubs or flies, uniting with the alkali in the water of tlio lake, forms a deposit of soup an inch or two hi thickuosa each year. Thus, in tho course of ages, a do-iiosit of natural soup of great depth has boon- built upon tho east el do of the alkali lakes, where tho Worms uro stranded-— provuiUng winds being from tho went. These iwirticulur grubs uro tho only living things found in tho waters of Mono auu Gwqiis lakes.At certain seasons an insectivorous duck, coiled tho spoonbill, frequents thee© lakes, and, feeding upon the aquatic rtiea hud grubs, becomes so fat it can hardly fly. Hunters kill these spoonbill ducks ror their oil, os tho grub on which they feed imparts to them a flshy tote so strong Unit they cannot be eaten except by Indians, who eat both worm* and aucka, Pucks ktUed by bun tors and lost we sometimes found in the waters of the lake, AU to feathers are eaten ofl to fowl by to dlkaJto solution* and to layer of fat beneath to skta, an inch In t! tckwew, la found to be changedto soap, hard as to best castiie and beau*W#/ totorjwiw.
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Hutchinson Daily News
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Fri, Dec 28, 1888
Page 6
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Dean T.
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