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Paperback The Carey Salt Mine Book

ISBN: 0738561800

ISBN13: 9780738561806

The Carey Salt Mine

(Part of the Images of America: Kansas Series)

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In 1923, Kansas governor Johnathan Davis traveled to Hutchinson to dedicate Emerson Carey's new rock salt mine whose shaft provided access to an ancient salt bed 650 feet under the earth's surface. The Carey Salt Mine, advertised as "the most modern in the world," served as a companion to Carey's already-existing evaporation plants. Miners used the newest technology to blast and crush the mineral into gravel and haul it to the surface to provide rock...

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