RENO MINER GETS A SURPRISE.
BATHES HEAD IN SPRING AND LpiSES HAIR. Jack Gleason, miner and prospector, at Reno, woke to find himself bald as the day when he was horn. He and a party of Needles mining men were campedi at Salt Springs on the Death valley edge of the funeral range, when he soused his head 1 in one of the springs, despite the warnings of his friends, " he water is filled with a strong. solution which resulted in taking off his hair. He had also poured water on the hack ot one of the pack animals to ease a sore spot. • Where the water settled the hair came away also. Tlhe springs are .marked: by the government and are well known to mining men, but Gleason was exhausted from the long trip across the Death valley sink and looked upon a bath with an irresistibly longing. _ It was at these springs that early pioneers stopped and tanned the, hides of animals, which had died on the long journey overland, using the hides thus treated as rope and harness. Men who know say Gleason will never again be able to .grow a head of hair, the solution having killed the 'roots.' ■ - '
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3326, 19 September 1911, Page 5
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203RENO MINER GETS A SURPRISE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3326, 19 September 1911, Page 5
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