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Salt grainer vats. Salt was lifted out of vats and drained.
Salt works buildings in the background and a field in front.
The old smoke stack in this picture (taken in 1931) was replaced in 1938 by a 125' stack.  Coal cars in foreground had been used many years previously for coal hauling from the salt work's own mine.  They were scrapped about 1935.  Note the two or three slender elm trees near the office.  These and several other beautiful elms, as well as nearly all other elms in this section, were killed by disease a few years later.
A smoke stack on the right billows steam or smoke, with a processing building in the center.

1469. Salt Hopper

Factory building, grainer.

1470. Salt Grainer

Pipes running into salt jugs.

1471. Salt Jugs

A salt well derrick.

1473. Salt Well

A salt mine car tied to a building on the left with a man standing to the right.
A building that is believed to be a salt dryer.

1475. Salt Dryer

Factory buildings with a smokestack to the right.