The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-05
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one sixth of this, according to tn
ianaIysis of eminent chemists, is sal
and sulphate of soda, That is, th'
lake containins, 250,905,6 }0,00t
cubic feet of salt and sulphate D
soda. OF this vast mass one .igbtt
is sulphate OF soda and seven eight.
common salt.
A cubic foot of sulphate of soda
weighs so pounds, and a cubic foot
of common salt, 80 pounds; so We
have, as the contents, in part, OF
this unparalleled reservoir OF
| wealth, 1868, 100. 100000 pounds,
or 7S4, ,O8O,0O0 tons OF sulphate OF
soda, and is, S,57O, ,339, 200, 900 pounds,
or 8,73o,l!8,600 tons of salt. AL.
lowing ten tons to a carload, that
would be rs, 100000 cars Of soda.
aud 878,O16,960 cars Of salt. Taking
80 feet as the total length OF a
freight Car and its couplings, we
would have a train of soda 800
miles long, or nearly to the moon
and back; and train of salt 4,
$685. ,730 miles in length, or long
enough to reach 1876 times around
the earth, and leave AL 5000 mile
string of cars over on a side track
Running 20 miles an hour aud
never stopping night or day t
would take the saIt-laden train %
years, 5 months and % days to pass
a station.
The sea bathing IN Great Salt
Lake infinitely surpasses anything
of the kind on either the Atlantic
or Pacific coasts. 4 first bath il
it is always as good as a circus, the
bather beng his or her own trek
mule. The specific gravity is hut
a trif1e less than that of the HOLY
Land Dead Sea, the actual figures
with distilled water as unity being.
for the ocean 1927, for Salt Lake
107, and Tor the Dead Sea 1.1l6
The human body will not and eau
not sink in it. You can walk out
in 1t where it is fifty feet deep, and
your body will stick up out of it
like fishing cork from the
shoulders upward. You can sit
down in it perfectly secure where
it is fathoms deep. Men lie on top
of it with their arms crossed under
their beads and smoke their cigars.
It's buoyancy is indescribahle and
upon it at the first trial; there is
nothing to do but lie down gently
upon it-and float. But swimming
is All entirely different matter. The
moment you begin to "paddle your
own canoe" lively and--t0 the
lockers on-mirth- h-provoking exer-
cises ensue. When you stick YOUR
hands under to make a stroke your
feet decline to stay anywhere bnt
on top; and when, after an exciting
tussle with your refractory pedal
extremitles, you again get them
beneath the surface, your hands fly
out with the splash and splutter of
a half-dozen fi0tter wheels. If, on
account.of your brains being heavier
than your heels, YOU chance to turn
a somerset and your head goes
under, your heels Will pop up like a
pair of trisky dldapper ducks. You
can not keep more than one end OF
yourself under water at once, but
you soon learn how to wrestle with
its novelties and then it becomes
"a thing of beauty" and a JOY for
any summer day. The water does
not freeze until the thermometric
mercury tumbies down to eightet u
degrees above zero, or fourteen be-
low the ordinary freezing point.
1t rs as clear as crystal, with a bot
tom of snow.white sand, and small
objects can be distinctly seen at
depth of twenty feet. There is not
a fish or any other living thing In
all the twenty-five hundred or three
thousand square miles of beautiful
and mysterious waters, except the
yearly increasing swarms Of sum-
mer batherS. Not shark Or a
stIngaree to scare the tinid swim
mer or hoater, not a crab or craw
fish to mp the toe Of the nelvo
wader, not a minnow or frog,
tadpole or a pollywog-nothing that
lives, moves, swims, crawls or
wiggles. 1t is the ideal sea-bat hing
place of the world.
Good Looks.