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TU tm# MIm of KmihIn Nevada aro novrrai deposits of mineral soap, One of these has boon worked for three or four yoar*. The soap Is amirilinc! made up Into oaken as It comes from the tnine, but usually it is toned down by admixture wilh various other soaps, In Dakota and Wyoming an also deposits of natural soap, In regions where soda. borax and mineral oUs abound It is only nee wary to bring these Ingmliofitattwvtber and a soap mine is the result I lot spring* assist materially In uniting and concentrating tho mate* rials provided by nature. Tho soap found about hot springs U, therefore, generally harder and more perfect than that produced in the dry way Lu and about the baainii of extinct lake?#.The water* ol Owens and Mono lakes or* so thoroughly saturated with borax and soda In solution that the addition ofany oleaginous matter produces soap. The wntenof Mono lake produce myriads of grubs (which after a tfmo bocoiuo dies) which are washed ludiurc. and in some places form benches a fix A or two in depth. Tlie oily matter contained in theBb* or dies, uniting with tbo alkali In water of the lake, forms a deposit of soap an Inch or two In thick m-** eachyear, Thus, in tho course of ages, a posit of natural soup of great depth lias boon built upon tho east side of thenlknU lakffe, where tbo worms aro stranded— prevailing winds being from the west. These particular gnils aro the only livLug things found In the water* of Mono and Owens lakes.At certain seasons an insectivorous duck, coifed the spoonbill, frequentsfeedingthese lakes, and. feeding upon the aquatic Hie* and grule, become* no fat It can hardly fly. 1 ftmter* kill three spoonbill ducks for their oil, os the grub onwhich they feed imparts to them n fishy taste so strong that they cannot bu eaten except by IndlanH, who eat boLli worms and ducks. Ducks killed by hunters andlost aro sometimes found In tbo water* of the lake. Ail tho feathers are eaten olT tl» fowl by tho a I lolling solution, andthe layer of fat beneath tho akin, oninch in thickness, is found to bo changed to soon, hard as the best cnMlla arid beau-tlfuily vfblta.—Virginia City Enterprise,
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The Waco Evening News
Waco, Texas, US
Mon, Dec 31, 1888
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