The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-10-01
KINNEY SALT DEPOSITS REPRESENT
WEALTH BEYOND DREAMS OF AVAR|CE
Salt Beds Two Miles By Two Miles And of Unknown
Depth; OF Highest Commercial Purity Await Capital
And Direction For Conversion Into Money.

undiminished purity. and in market
ing the product from the surface to
serve local demands.
The late Prof. G. F. Everett, in
his lifetime a member of the federal
governments geological survey,
made an estimate some years ago
showing that the Kinney deposits
probably contained in the neighbor-
hood of about 400, 100000 tons of
salt, but this, like any other figure
thorough prospecting, must be con-
jectural. Prof. Everett also stated
in his report to Mr.. Kinney that the
Fallon deposits show by chemical
analysis a higher average purity
than any other salt thus far discoy-
cred. At one time Congressman Sui
zer, later governor of New York, be-
came interested in the great hold
ing, and the establishing of an in
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Fallon and Mr.. Kinney seemed GER
tain. Mr.. Sulzer got in bad with his
constituency, the war came on later
and disturbed economic conditions
ensued which operated to prevent
the realization of Mr.. Kinney's plans
Meanwhile the years are passing
with kaleidoscope rapidity and Mr.
Kinney wants to start to convert salt
into money; in short, he proposes to
mate and commence to make salt in
to money, serve the utilitarian and
realize some of the benefits that
plainly should be his reward And
the way seems open. for mechanical
inventions have more than. counter
balanced the increases of recent
years in labor and rail rates, the
price of salt meanwhile having sub
stantially advanced during the last
three years, while the demand is
ever increasing.
In anticipation of installing a
great salt crushing plant and seek
ing markets at an early date. Mr.
Kinney took out a party of Fallon-
ties to the deposits last Sunday conf
posed of Fred Grob, c. l.. Benadum,
Dr. c. A. Hascall, j. c. Jones, C. s.
Boden. w. H. Robinson. Early Whit
ten, W. c. Black, Mrs. C. w. Kinney
and Mrs A. S. Conant To most of
these the visit was their first, al
though they had Travelled along the
nearby highway leading to the
county's mining districts for years,
had glanced along the shimmer'ng
surface of a snow white fiat in the
distance and wondered why the mi
rage magnified the tiny sage at the
base of the purple hued mountain
on the other side until it came into
their vision as big as an Oregon
pine. But they didn't stop to think
that before them lay vast potential
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very existence. You don't think in
this wise until you have been led in
to direct contact with what lays
there.
Mr.. Kinney took his party across
the two miles of salted expanse stop
ping here and there at vents in the
crust, which never freeze, always
give off chlorine gas with the ever
rising brine and are of unknown
depth. big Ben," the largest of
these was visited by the party be-
cause it was here that soundings
were made several years ago to a
depth of 16S feet and samples taken
which showed the same salt content
as the liquid taken from the surface
of the geyser-spring Mr.. Kinney
says this brine comes from marlytes.
whatever that is, in the subterran-
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