The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-10-22
ANOTHER SALTS LAKE
LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF
THE BOUNDARY LINE, BUT
TRIBUTARY TO OROVILLE

sue of last week of the shipment Of
EPSON salts from a deposit situated
across the line in British Columbia,
some IL miles northwest of Oroville.
The salts at that place are of similar
nature to the salts in the lake west
| of, and short distance from, Oroville,
| that was secured a short time ago by
the Stewart-Calvert company worked
and large quantity Of the product
| shipped to eastern markets. The
British Columbia salts, lake is in every
particular a counterpart of that near
Oroville, it has the same barren sur
Iroundings, the same repitition of de-
posit from springs, and to all ap-
pearances, and under analysis, the
texture and quality of the salts of the
two lakes are the same, as though
coming from the same source of sup
Iply.
Originally the salts lake near Oro-
vile was owned by E. McCammon, w.
|G. Hancock and S. and G. M. Rayburn,
father and son. Complications have
grown out of that ownership of which
this item has nothing to do. At the
time of combined ownership, S. and
G. M. Rayburn held the British Column
bia salts lake under location, retained
their title by complying with the Brit
ish Columbia mining laws, and are
sole owners at the present time After
the Calvert company became
interested in the Oroville salts pro-
perty negotiations were entered into
with the Rayburns by the same COM
pany for handling the salts owned by
them across the line, and recently ac-
tive work OF extraction and delivery
was commenced. A car load from
Rayburn lake has already been deliv-
cred, but just at the present time there
is hitch in operations awaiting the
adjustment of duties demanded by the
Canadian government for expectation.
When this question is finally settled
work of extraction, delivery and ship
lnent WILL be resumed
The lakes, as this paper has before
stated when mentioning the Oroville
deposit, are among the great natural
curiosities of the northwest, where ma
ture has been liberal in scattering
rare deposits of minerals. So far as
known no definite conclusion has been
reached as to the source of this medic
inal deposit, There is no getting
around the fact that the salts are in
the lakes in vast quantities, probably
in somewhat larger quantities, if not
quite SO pure, on the north side of the
line than on the south side, and fur
ther that after the surface is removed
1t is renewed repeatedly by the evap-
Grafton of the waters of the springs
within the lakes that lay only a few
inches beneath the wtite surface. AL
ready the salts have become an i'm
portant item of export from Croville,
where freight shipments of anything
of commercial value has not i .en very
great in years past. The operating
company is employing large force of
men and teams, and the pay roll is
keeping considerable amount of
ready money in circulation. Eventu-
ally the company will erect treat
ment plant at Oroville, indeed that will
be necessary in order to extract the
salts and prepare it for shipment dur
ing the winter and wet months. In
that case the salts lakes will be op-
Grated all the year around. This salts
industry promises to be an important
and profitable bucincss for the oper-
ators, and strong contributing factor
to the prosperity of Oroville
Charles Johnson, prosecuting attor-
ney, accompanied by Sheriff Stark,
spent a short time in Oroville We'd
nesday afternoon on business connect
ed with their several offices. Mr..
johnson is handling the business of
his office in very commendable man
ner, having been compelled to hold
but one jury term during this year,
and he advises that another will not
be necessary before January, 1916.
Monday Ellis & Forde, Long &
Kinchelo, John Woodard and Jas.
OHerin made Jack pot of cattle and
shipped out 203 head. The animals
were in prime condition. Among the
consignment were a number of cows
that weighed in at an average of 1910
pounds, and they were taken by buy
ers at steer prices. Jack Long rang
in two-year-old steer that pulled