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natural-soap MINts.Tit** Mineral \ tt 4 *♦* • ami lit Kvri *a, F* »j Icota a in I Wyoming,In Nevada art' several lt;1 'poults of min-era! soap, says the T^rtit^ria1 / Vib * print| One of these has hem worked f r tV*m orfour years The snao is unmet ones madeup into rake • l 4 *' ‘ ’bill's f rt»!TI t hr If! batusually it is toned down by admixture withvarloiiH other soaps. In Dakota and Wyo-I ining arc al*o deposits of natural soup, inregions where mmIi, borax and mineral *uU abound it is onlv necessary to bring these injrredlores together and a soap mme »s the result. Hot springs assist very materially; in unit ng and concent rat it) tr the materials provided by nature. The soup found aboutho! springs is. t herofwro. generally harderi and more perfect than that produce I in the ♦lakes. The waters lt;f Owens and Mono j lakes are ho thoroughly saturated withj borax and soua in solution that the addition ! of any oleaginous matter produces soap The waters of Mono lake produces myriads of grubs (that after a time become flies),which are washed ashore, and in s me places form Is ache* a foot or two in depth.The oily mutter contained in the grubs ori flies uniting with the alkali fft the water of the lake forms a deposit of soap an in eh or t wo in thickness each year Titus in the course of ages a deposit of natural soap of| great dep * has t**o« built up n the « i side of the alkali lakes where the worms arestranded tie* prevailing w mi* being fromthe west These peculiar grubs are the only living thing found in the waters of Mono and Owen lakes \t certain seasons ; an insectiferous duck, railed the s|K*n bill, frequents these lakes, and feeding upon theaquatic flies and grubs I incomes so fat that it can hardly fly. Hunters kill them* H|*nn-hill ducks for t heir oik as the grub on v\ Inch they feed imparts to them a fishy taste sostrong that they eau not be eaten except by Indians*—who eat both worms and ducks. Ducks killed by hunters and lost, are sotnelimep found in the waters of thej lake All the feathers are eaten off the fowl by the alkaline solution, and the layerof fat beneath the hocU) (an inch in thickness) ih found to be changed to soap, hard as the ties! east lie and lx*auti fully white.r~ rx n t rx n i m /x
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Dunkirk Observer Journal
Dunkirk, New York, US
Sat, Nov 24, 1888
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