who tracked down the missing ingredient in 1973, and the gum arabic made from the acashia tree, john lantus who is the man who revealed the secret, he had been a manager at the bank exchange saloon under nicole and maybe, nicole gave him the formula and maybe he just sort of paid attention and noticed that there were supplies of gum arabic that were being dropped off and as i said during this period, and starting in the 60s and 70s there is a burst of cash and financial excitement and the people were seizing the opportunities to invest in the silver mines that seemed hot that way and inside information made the most money, of course, but many people were made to feel rich for a time. some of the people who made a great deal of money were the ones who run the auction restaurant in the financial district and that had opened in 1949 and became a hip place to eat lunch in the 1860s. and all of the mining insiders would eat there and the restaurant's back door opened on to the famous washington market which is the largest market and cheeses and a wide assortment of game and polt tri, and radishe