The 20-mule teams that hauled
borax across the southern California desert were actually 18 mules and
two horses. One team pulled two 7,800-pound borax hauling wagons
and a 1,200-gallon water tank wagon.
You'll
learn more at the Borax Visitor Center between Mojave and Barstow on Highway
58 at Boron.
At the
conclusion of a 17-minute film highlighting the variety of uses of the
white powder deposited in the remains of former lakebeds, drapes at the
rear of the auditorium open, and the audience files to the panoramic windows
to look down on the open-pit mining in progress.
The excavation
pit, a result of more than 30 years of mining, measures one mile wide,
one-and-a-half miles long and 2,000 feet deep.
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