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M#a# Uk« Salt. 1An idea of ihe co*t of fighting the teredo * on this coast may be gained from the state c ment that it will require 248,000 gallons of creosote, imported from Germany, to coai the pile* of the new wharf at San Pedro. Th. re i* more efficacy in Mono Lake salt. Jim Townsend says it will make timber as hard a* granite and as tough as a fiddler’s conscience, and no boring insect will go within three blocks of it. The idea is worth a Lriune, but Townsend gives it to his read* crs a* a premium. The tendency of the water* of the Lake, which holds in solution sixteen per cent, of mineral, is to purity all kinds of wood; the softer and more poroua the maieria 1 the quicker the change. Blocks of sugar pine submerged for two or three month* become like argilaceous slate, and are good substitutes for whetstones. All the gravestones in the cemetery at Copel Bay were made in this manner, and though some have been planted many years they show no signs of weathering. A pine plank of the required size is lettered and ornamented ac-cording to taste, sunk in the Lake a few months, and when fished out makes a very neat label for a defunct person of limited means. Surveyor Thompson has now in soak a fine tablet for Louis Amiot, who is trying to drink himself to death, so that the corpse may be ready when his gravestone is properly pickled. Its a hue scheme. Money in it for the right man.
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Silver City Lyon County Times
Silver City, Nevada, US
Sat, Jun 15, 1889
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