the thick roof of solid rock salt also prevents any seepage of water into the mine. No plant, animal or insect life can be sustained in the salt mine.
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one wonders how many ball caps exist with salt company logos...
(Continued from page 7) Chlorine, made with salt, is used as a treatment for drinking water, swimming pools and sewer systems. Soda ash, or sodium carbonate, is an indispensable ingredient in glassmaking and ceramics. It is also used in cosmetics, toothpaste and purifying natural gas.
KEEPING HOGS HEALTHY Other assorted sodium compounds are used to smelt nickel, keep hogs and cattle healthy, pickle meat and clean porcelain. To use this white treasure of Kansas, it has to be mined out of the earth. This leaves large empty caverns.
325-foot solid rock salt ceilIn 1959 a group of ings, topped by a variety eight Wichita businessof geological strata, and a men chose to use the 50-foot solid rock salt floor Hutchinson Salt Mine as on top of anhydride. Colan underground storumns of salt, 20 to 50 feet age center. The corpothick, are left between ration negotiated a excavated areas for 99-year lease with support, forming the Careys for investors prove to long rooms. the area. The be keen Another signifidoors opened visionaries cant reason for use for business on of the mine is that April 1, 1960 as salt is a great natural Underground Vaults catalyst, resistant to any & Storage, Inc. at 906 N. change in humidity, reHalstead, Hutchinson. maining at 50 to 60 percent The Hutchinson Salt year round.* (See “Update” Mine was chosen for on page 5.) several reasons. Rock salt This constant humidity (halite) is an extremely plus the constant temperadense mineral nearly equal ture of 68 degrees Fahrin weight to granite. enheit create ideal storage The rock salt is mined conditions. The thick roof on one level that leaves
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