The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-01
NEWS HND COMMENT

n natural soap mine and Il paint mine
Rrc TWO Of the latest mineral discoveries
in the northwest. Several soda lakes
have been found in the foothills near
Ashcroft, b. G.. Their bottoms ana shores
acn incrusted with q natural washing
compound. containing buraX and soda.
No two analyses agree exactly as 10 the
composition OF the material A New
York analysis gives 26 per cent. borlN.
while a Montreal chemist, from the same
sample, gives IL per cent. horaN. An OF
lava analysis showed only q trace Cf
bOTdN. Ttsts prove the substance To be
equal To the washing powders in com
mon use for cleansing purposes Trials
hy Olacksmiths and farm Workmen show
that It viii remove grease and dirt ouick.
er than soap. After many such tests
syndicate Of British Columbia men has
been formed 10 put the product on the
market. one Of the members is now in
New York for that purpose. About "a
tons of the compound have been cut and
taken out of one lake. 1t il handled pre-
CiStly as ice is handled The blocks are
more than nine inches in thickness; are
sawed in blocks l5 by Is inches and weigh
fifty pounds each. II is calculated that
this lake alone contains 10000 tons, PROV
ing that the industry, if successful will
reach large proportions. An immense de-
pOsit of ocher or mineral paint has been
uncovered In the Skagit mining district
about five miles above the mouth of
Baker river. I'm Washington The ledge
runs from eight 10 ten feet in width ana
between Well-defined walls. The mineral
Is Of such Il friable nature that pick and
shovel alone are necessary for irs work
ing. and is Of such purity that it re-
quires cnly roasting and pulvcr!2ing 20
prepare It for the market. After roas,-
ing and pulverizIng it requires only mix
IND at nil n f,P 10
ENueTts pronounce the ochCr to bc first
Class in all respects II is proposed 10
establish a paint factory in SNagit
couu,y to work the material into com.
mcrCial form.
W. E. Curtis is informed by prOmi.
ncnu Phi7NdClphia business man that
john Nanamakcr's profits from his Phil
adGphia store last year were over Sl,1je,
! coo and that those from his New York cs-
| tablShmCnt Will run close to thur Hgure.
! The Saturday before Christmas the re-
Cailts r.. New Horl: We're even greater
| than those in Philadelphia and exceeded
| SI000OI, The New York store has paid a
! pre- 1t from the very day it was opened,
| although Two firms which occupied the
| establishment since 4. n. Stewards death
have failed, The reason of Mr.. Wana-
mekCr'S great success, both in New GUrli
and Philadelphia, is mis- skillful and eN-
| tcnsive advertising. 1t has peen his rule
| to confine his advertising 10 newspapers
ana ma agaZlnes, ON which he has spent
annually move thm S36,O0O In l'hiladel-
! phia. The advertising bills OF his New
| Yark establishment exceeded even that
| sum last year,
| Alfred Henry Lewis paper, the Yer.
| dict, which does not love Bourke Cock
| ran, repeats with glee a story once told
| al Cockran's expense by Mr.. O'Ferrcll
| afterward governor of Virginia O'Fer-
| rell was following Cochran. who for two
| hours had deafened the house i'm the mat
| ter of the Rockwell election contest Re.
| ferring to Cochran's speech O'Eerrell OBJ.
| served "As ! sat listening 10 the gen.
| tleman, Mr.. Speaker, and reelected on tho
| riot OF words without purpose or aim
or any fieeting, passing glimmer OF good
! sense, he was unloading on this house
| ! began to feel like the old darkey who
was plOdding and splashing homeward
| through u midnight thunder storm. The
| winds were blowing and the rain was
| sheeting down. Every other moment a
| fash OF lightning slashed the heavens
| briefly like n knife of fire. Then fol-
| owed the thunders, rolling crash OF