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* [ftp://nas.library.unr.edu/keck/mining/SCANS/0160/01600009.pdf Survey of minerals along the WP that discusses the Buffalo Salt Works]
* [ftp://nas.library.unr.edu/keck/mining/SCANS/0160/01600009.pdf Survey of minerals along the WP that discusses the Buffalo Salt Works]
** The WP Survey says that Buffalo Salt Works is at [http://www.histopolis.com/Place/US/Mount_Diablo_Meridian/R20E/T31N Range 20E, Township 31N, Section 6], which is 40.5557077, -119.7266928, or about 2 miles south of the GNIS location.
** The WP Survey says that Buffalo Salt Works is at [http://www.histopolis.com/Place/US/Mount_Diablo_Meridian/R20E/T31N Range 20E, Township 31N, Section 6], which is 40.5557077, -119.7266928, or about 2 miles south of the GNIS location.
* Image, University of Nevada Special Collections, [http://unrspecoll.pastperfect-online.com/40468cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=9B54C360-7696-4F8C-BDB0-325990554057;type=102 Buffalo Salt Works [Washoe County]" UNRS-P2007-01-18.


[[Category:Smoke Creek Desert]]
[[Category:Smoke Creek Desert]]

Revision as of 17:19, 28 November 2014

Buffalo Salt Works is located on the west side of the Smoke Creek Desert, north of Salt Marsh.

Overton (1947) reports that Buffalo Springs Salt Works was established in 1879 and that it produced 250 tons annually prior to 1896. Overton states that Director Carpenter reports that Mr. Cornell, living at Sheepshead Station knows where the Buffalo Salt Works is "close by" "[1].

References

  1. Theodore D. Overton, "B046: Mineral resources of Douglas, Ormsby, and Washoe Counties," B046, Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology, 1947. Full version with lower resolution images. Includes images of Fly Geyser, the Petrified Forest, Gerlach Hot Springs that are in the collection at UNR.

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