Many thousands of "years oxo Nature Inid the foundation for an industry which has just been started in the Lassen Voleanic regions, near here.
Paints, inks and dyes are being manufactured out of ashes and joe soaked through the ages with natural chemicals. At Supan Springs, where the soil to be used is found, there are many active sulphur springs, steam vents and large areas of chemically heated ash.
The dissolved in acilanother treatment given to afford the desized colouring. A solid base forms through settling, and water syphoned off." The solid then heated to cxaporate. the remaining water, leaving a powder for the paints' inks and dyes. Automobile paint companies have contracted to take a large part of the output, as the product has proven it retain its colour without fading.
Fifty different shades and colourings are being made, with 16 shades of blue—United' Press Following the closing of the For y State Bank to-day, W. B. Fossay, president of W. B. Fossay Ca, applied for a receivership.
His company was a $10,002,000 uncer engaged in 'West 'Tanking,' utilities handling and real tute, "With public support, the coxspany recently build a 30-storey fice building, James W. Good, Secretary of. War, was_prineipal speaker at the dedication cere-
Company officials declined to atispuss whether they had met with averses in the stock exchange "Bankers consider the Fossa kragh one of the greatest failures in the history of the seetion—United Prose.
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