DEAD SEA NOT DEAD.
Tlie familiar Dead Sea is coming to life in .an industrial sense. The great chemical industry springing up on its shores is now producing some 25,000 tons of potash every year, with a prospect of expansion to 100,000 tons. Bromine, entering the sea from the hot springs of Herod's liatli, .is being extracted at the rate of 1000 tons a year. The saltyielding capacity is calculated at forty thousand million t-ons. The Dead Sea receives daily 8,800,000 cubic metres of ivater from the liiver Jordan :»ud the 'udean Hills.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 173, 23 July 1936, Page 19
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