Around Boron

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Cover of the book Around Boron by Barbara J. Pratt, Twenty Mule Team Museum, Arcadia Publishing Inc.
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Author: Barbara J. Pratt, Twenty Mule Team Museum ISBN: 9781439623084
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc. Publication: April 13, 2009
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing Language: English
Author: Barbara J. Pratt, Twenty Mule Team Museum
ISBN: 9781439623084
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Publication: April 13, 2009
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Language: English
In the late 1920s, this high desert area with little water and unproductive soil held no attraction for most people, but the small community of Amargo provided a grocery store, gas station, and of course a saloon for the convenience of tenacious gold and borax prospectors. In 1938, after the large deposit of borax was discovered and mining had begun, a town hall meeting was called and Le Roy Osborne, supervisor of Pacific Coast Borax Company, suggested changing the name from Amargo to Boron. Boron is the fifth element on the periodic table and combines with other nonmetallic minerals to form a family of related minerals called borates; after this was explained to those gathered at the town hall meeting, Boron was unanimously chosen as its new name and the community was forever linked to the borax mining industry.
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In the late 1920s, this high desert area with little water and unproductive soil held no attraction for most people, but the small community of Amargo provided a grocery store, gas station, and of course a saloon for the convenience of tenacious gold and borax prospectors. In 1938, after the large deposit of borax was discovered and mining had begun, a town hall meeting was called and Le Roy Osborne, supervisor of Pacific Coast Borax Company, suggested changing the name from Amargo to Boron. Boron is the fifth element on the periodic table and combines with other nonmetallic minerals to form a family of related minerals called borates; after this was explained to those gathered at the town hall meeting, Boron was unanimously chosen as its new name and the community was forever linked to the borax mining industry.

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