Monday, April 02, 2012

Salt in Salt Creek ?

To the left is Salt Creek Falls.
Nice falls, dropping about 60 feet or so.
And a cache there also Salt crek Falls.



Up the road is a place called "Salt Creek" and why is it called Salt Creek?
The old timers (1900) would take water from this spring that dumps into the creek and make salt from it by boiling it down till all that was left was salt. And then take it into town and sell it.
The spring to the right is about 3 feet above the creek and about 25 feet from the creek.
Below you can see the salt build up on the rocks and the other to the lower left is the build up of salt, it must be about 3 feet deep.

1 comment:

Shannon said...

Thant is cool. I wonder how much salt was worth back then.