The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-02-09

for many years, for there is an almost
incalculable tonnage at the dry lake
south of town which is just being
onened up. A large quantity of salts
ic extracted from the lake west OF
town, from which the principal sup
ply has been drawn in past years, and
this is procured by evaporation of the
waters of the lake, the water being
piped down from the lake to the plant.
During the winter Percy Eastman
constructed an excellent road from
point near the old Wellington ranch
to the lake on top of the hill that he
is prospecting under instructions from
the company. and from which supply
Of splts will be drawn. Wet weather
materially interfered with sinking OF
shafts as the ground is a depression
| in the hills in which years ago water
always stood, but the lake has dried
| up in late years. 1t is natural for sur
face water to gravitate toward this
depression, and Mr.. Eastman was
compelled to construct dykes to keep
off the flood water, and even then the
lseepage constantly Interrupted opera
tfons. OF course this drawback will
be eliminated with the coming OF
spring. and after a plan of campaign
for extraction is finally laid out no
further difficulty will be experienced
from that source.
A picture of the plant located about
l., of ho iph l.
ing, near the bank of the Similkameen
river. is published. 1t is fitted up
with precipitating tanks, centrlpetal
ldryers, heaters and such other ma
chinerv as is required for preparing
the salts in their natural damp state
as they come from the beds for snip
ment. A spur of the railroad is laid
at the doors of the warehouses. TIC
carry out the plans of preparing the
different forms of the salts that are tC
be placed upon the market it will be
necessary to construct other buildings
, and install much additional modern
machinery, and this is to be done a
, Ian early date. Further housing room
, land conveniences will be added as tht
, necessity arises and increased bust
mess will require 1t will be the onl.
plant of the kind in America, or in thu
= world, for nowhere in the world, 81
far as discovered does there exist sucl
: a .1eposit. both as to purity and quan
+ tity, of. magnesium sulphate.
t 1t is hardly necessary to dwell up
A. n "a n X
S wlen in full active operation, vii
= mean for Oroville. That should
patent to ever man, woman and chill
e in the community. That the Epsor
n salts exists here and has become a
e important source of supply for tn
e discovery as has already been state'
e Under the old ownership and manag,
e ment the production was enormor
e and the income therefrom, If any r,
IS lance can be placed upon Dame r,
e NOR, was quite large. The old con
st lpany made no attempt to market an
Is thing in the way of medicaments
m which the basic principles are Epso
st salts. marketing only the raw mate
lie al. If success accompanied the han
IN ling merely of the raw material it
v impossible to realize what a profitab
d, business can be built up by the COZ
lie lpany producing the salts In the va
70 ious forms enumerated, putting t
sh same up in attractive glass recepticl
l. and cartoons and boxes immediate
Sc at the plant. Why, in time it Will
on come one OF the largest. most prof