Milford chronicle., 1930-02-14

levels and often coal is brought up
a slope for a mile and the point of
the coal cutting may still be several
hundred feet below the bottom of
the shaft. For every ton of coal an
average of "a tons of water must be
pumped from the mines.
Miles and miles of tunnels and
acres of wood to support them. Rock
salt seems to be self supporting. The
salt is cut with a drill and dyna-
mite. The loosened material is
scooped by an electric shovel,
loaded on to a conveyor and dumped
into cars. Long tunnels are soon
made 1850 feet under ground and the
electric donkey pulls the cars to the
dump where a car is run into a re-
volving cylinder which turns the
cars upside down so that the rock
salt may be received and ground by
the large crusher set in the rocks.
After the raw material is crushed,
finer mineral (skids) is hOisted
through the shaft and dumped into
a conveyor where it is run over the
segments and the rock picked out.
1t then travels along a trough and
flows into open mouthed bags which
are sewed and closed by machinery.
This is the rock salt used in pack
ing. To get refined salt it is neces-
sary to sink a small shaft 1850 feet.
The same method is used here as is
employed in raising liquid sulphur
from a. subterranean vein. Two pipes
conveying super-heated water are
lowered to the vein; another pipe
conveying compressed air forces
the brine to the surface through
two parallel outlet pipes. This brine
is placed in vats and the saline pre-
cipitate removed as crystallization
takes place. This is done by a large
pusher working across the bottom.
This output is bagged for table use.
The super refined salt is made by
putting the brine through the Cen
trifugals" whose revolutions re-
move all moisture and make the salt
finer and more glossy and remove
impurities.
Coal and salt; minerals formed
and in the making for 10000 CEN
turtles.
The educational picture From
Texas Trail to Table" was Swift
and Company contribution. When
the Pacific first traversed the prair-
les the passengers often carried
rifles to kill buffaloes which were so
numerous that they stopped trains,
when milling. If any part of the an
imal was removed it was the hide;
often the animals were killed to
clear the tracks so the train might
move on. AS many as 100000 of
them were estimated to have lived
at one time. Today they are curios-
tiles.
The Texas Long Horn was a lean,
bony animal which ranged far and
found little to eat. His horns meas
ured about 80 inches from tip to
tip. He was not a good meat pro-
ducer. Buyers would pay dollar for
his hide and let his carcass rot.
Someone, before the days of south
ern railroads, conceived the idea OF
driving the herds into the rich
prairie lands of the middle west,
fattening the steers and then taking
them to Abilene, Kansas, from Whlch
point they would be shipped to Chi
cago and the fattened meat as well
as the hide bring good price. This
changed the cattle industry.
Today the men in the corn belt
buy the calves, fatten them' and
then send them to Chicago. This
changes the problem. A steer weigh
ing 1000 pounds produces 500 lbs. OF
beef. If all the animals and poultry
killed in one day were arranged in
a straight line tip to tip they would
cover over Is miles. Swift's business
in one year was estimated at $49I'-
100000. The American people use
over 45,e0O,OOO pounds Of beeg daily.
The stock yards at Chicago are
over a mile square. One half used as
pens and one half devoted to pack
ing where all meat is inspected and
stamped by trained veterinarians.
During the slump in corn several
years ago while the western farm
ers were using corn for fuel or sell
Ing II IOI IL COulO a OA9AS~1
Lancaster County farmer was rat
tening his steers and enriching the
soil. Lancaster is now one OF the
largest cattle marts in the east and
that county has more fatteneo
steers than some western counties.
With all this, however, people still
clamor for western meat and seem
to prefer that grade.
Ali parts of the steers are used.
Those parts not used as meat are
converted into ertilizer-buttons
are made from the horns.
In the case of the pig all parts are
made use of except the squeals and
there is a plan on foot to can them
and sell them to colleges to be OPP
ened when their team makes a
touchdown.