"Well, the first thing you do is to
look for salt; it's there, ull uround you,
above, on ull sides, but it
don't look like salt near the IxiUom of
the shaft, as lights are burned constantly
and the smoke has blackened
tho walls. You look away to the east,
through a long, dark tunnel, mid you
discern in the fur distance some Dickering
lights, and you are informed that
they are lights used by the workmen
who are engaged in mining the salL
Your guide steps up to a mau near
where you land and says: 'Throe lights,
please,' and three tallow caudles ure
handed out It amy seem a little
strange that tallow caudles are used in
this ago of kerosene, gas and electricity,
hut such is the case, and they are
the only lights used in the mine, and
euch mau carries one, and they are
hunir up from tho ceiling where tho
mining of salt is going on, ami they
arc tho handiest lights that can bo
used. They don't purchase these lights
by the dozen or hundred, but by thu
carload.
"The candles were lighted, and witli
them in hand wo followed the guide
and proceeded to make a tour of tho
mine; wo might add, a partial tour, for
it would take a person something liko
a week to walk all over the mined territory.
