Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-01-03
FOUND A MINE OF SOAP
Wonderful Deposit in Wyoming to ).
Worked. Oe

We've got everything out of the pro,,,.,
but soap, and now we've got that Sai5
the secretary of the chamber Of , g',iu
mcrce, as he rubbed his hands clean ori
held them up for inspection. anu
1t was true enough. A soap mine is a.,
innovation. and some people will have "a
be showed" but Mr. Williams will SI.>, "
anybody who applies at the cb,n,Iom.
that soap is about to become a potent for.
tor in mining III the West
Away back in the days when moup+air-
rose up out of the sea and the Creotn
put everything into the hills that p'y,,
produces wealth, there was evidently ~
wonderful foresight of the present gene
ton. Having provided almost evervtbinr
including gems, fuel and drugs II,
doubtless anticipated the need of a chlir,
toilet article when man took possession
and Smeared himself over with dirt IN
extracting the wealth from the ground
SO, for the great unwashed, regardless
of politics, there was deposited, six mile.
north Of Newcastle, WyO., on top of fla
ground, hunk of soap about the size of
the Colorado state house. JUS how
much IS under ground is yet to he dp+e,-
mined, but f. A. Hillman Of ~ SG,r.
man avenue, tramway motornian OF rba
Eleventh avenue line, has acquired title
TO $50 acres, ON portion of which is This
big cake of soap. Through the DeDynr
chamber of commence three Of the largest
soap manufacturers in the country have
been interested. and Mr.. Hillman viii
awake some morning to discover that he
has suddenly become a millionaire. His
little 20-cent-an-hour job already looks
like cancelled stamp as compared 10
what's coming.
There is no doubt about the purity Of
this SOAP" said j. L. Griffin, who came
out to investigate tie find for Armour &
Co. 1--WE have found the deposit as rem
resented, and succeeded in locating great
deposits beneath the surface. BY means
of a pole drilling rig, which had been
used i'll an oil we'll two miles away we
found a stratum of this soap twenty.
three feet thick at a depth of Is feet and
extending 300 yards across from north ia
south, but going down toward the east at
drop of two inches to the yard. Strange
to say, the same depth had to be peue-
trated 80 feet from the edge of the ok.
posed hogback before reaching the
stratum. Fifteen-foot holes around the
sides of the exposed part showed its con
tour almost vertical.
THE deposit is six miles north of New
castle and about 200 yards from the Bill
lings branch of the Burlington. The hog
back contains 5000 carloads above the
grass roots. We have tested it in soap,
having sent thirteen cars all told to Chi
cago and Minneapolis.
THE material is an excellent filler for
soaps and for paper. 1t is also good
article for horses hoofs, cleansing them
and preventing decay. Our chemists are
finding other uses for it,
The samples on exhibition at the cham
Der of commerce include several pieces Of
raw material, which is nothing more
than a new variety of soft soapstonc
Mr.. Hillman crushed piece the size of
goose egg with hammer and put it in
cup of water. Immediately it formed
thick paste, which, lie says, will hold its
consistency indefinitely, and this paste
has for two days been used as a toilet
soap by attaches Of the chamber. 1t has
no grit, does not lather, but cleanses and
beauties the skin as no manufactured
soap ever did. No chemical analysis Is
available, but the secretary of the cham
Der declares it is at least 80 44-100 pure.
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