Too much water, too little, minerals, salt, disease, weather, conditions being too good and creating a glut, demand changes resulting in no market for your crop, no pickers, shipping costs too high, on and on.

We would have been sailors on ships to "new" lands, frontier farmers scratching out a living, gold miners and prospectors, or rail road builders.  

Apparently the water has high mineral content and PPM is above EPA guidelines for drinking water.Other than that - everything is better.

So my sound proofing is focused in the second floor/ceiling of the first floor.For soundproofing, I do the following;1) I am mindful to seal up all of the second floor subfloor penetration.2) I installed 3" thick mineral wool (Roxul or Rockwool) insulation between the floor joist directly above the sheet rock.3) I use resilient channel to hang the ceiling drywall, which is 5/8" thick (per code for fire barrier, but is a bonus for sound).The above does a good job at reducing sounds like TV's, radio's, talking, etc.  

Mineral build up is hard on gas water heaters, because you heat from the bottom and the mineral build up makes them have to run longer, but on an electric heater it's just build-up on the heating rods, which can be replaced, and of course maintaining your anode.

“There was one little buzz on the floor of this conference, and it was lithium.”Leatherman and Canadian mining company North Arrow Minerals began studying the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt – a belt of lithium-rich veins stretching through Gaston and Cleveland counties from Lincolnton to Gaffney, South Carolina – which has a lithium mining history dating back to the 1950s.

His comment was that if you worked in a shipyard or an asbestos mine for decades, you probably have a medical problem.Assuming you aren't a miner, or a ship builder and want to proceed, you start by spraying the ceiling with water and keeping the material wet and scraping the ceiling with a flat shovel which removes the popcorn.

Hey Casey,Given that you have a big family and a full time job, have you considered investing in a more passive investment such as an oil and gas mineral rights royalty fund?

Fl exporting oranges everywhere, CA vegetable's, MN minerals, WA timber etc etc.

Remember the truism that selling shovels to gold miners is how you make money in this world and not by gold mining.