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A salt well derrick in the midst of winter.
Salt well and salt dryer (in background) in the wintertime.
Well in right background. Foreground is storage tank for brine, the salt water cistern.  Brine from all wells is piped into this cistern which serves merely as a reserve supply should the wells be shut off for a short time.  The bottom logs were place ca. 1870.
Steam engine that was used for working on the salt wells.
Salt on the assembly line.
Interior of a grainer building.
A salt water reserve tank.
These pictures made before 1898 'probably at same time as Thompson made picture of entire plant'--also shown in this collection. Picture in upper left corner shows salt piled on drain boards after being lifted by hand from the crystalizing vats. Right upper picture shows salt being packed in barrels for shipment. Middle scene is in cooper shop. 'All salt at that time was shipped in barrels.' Lower left scene shows barrels of salt on platform ready to lower down incline to load on barges. Until the New York Central Railroad 'formerly the K&M' was built, all salt was shipped by barge or taken across Kanawha River and loaded on C&O Railroad at South Malden.
Picture of shed, smokestack is on left, grainer is behind. Coal brought in here. Small Stack on right is storage for cinders.
An aerial view of the factory with the salt water reserve tank in the foreground and other various buildings surrounding it.
Brine Storage Tanks. The brine went from wells to storage tanks, the container in center of picture contains brine. The boiler furnishes heat, a pre-heating process for brine grainer. The brine came in from the left. Coal in foreground.
Evaporating sheds for salt.