A Great Field Of Salt
Clinton E. Worden, son of Charlee H. Worden, ís president of the New Uverpool Salt Works, situated atSalton, dn California, 94 miles from Yuma. It is a curious place 280 íeet below sea level and was fornierly covered by the ocean. Kow it is a desert where the Indiaas pCow up the salt with steam plows cutting furrows eiglit foet wido and a ha' ƒ foot deep. Eacli plow barroste 700 tons of pure ealt a day, which is ffround and put on the ars Jor market. The Indians work ten hours a day with the sun beating on their backs 150 degrees. Water runs down from the foot huls, evapórate ajid leaves deposita of chloride of sodium (salt) varying from one to two feet deep. Thte makes salt very pure and diy for table use, the dairy or for mediciine.
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