Leslie Salt
Appearance
The Leslie Salt Company was a salt-producing company located in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the current locations of Newark, Hayward and other parts of the bay.
Background
They produced salt using salt evaporation ponds on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. By the 1940s, Leslie Salt under the dominant ownership of the Schilling family [1] had become the largest private land owner in the Bay Area. By 1959, they were producing more than one million tons of salt annually, on over 26,000 acres (11,000 ha) of bay salt ponds.[2] They were purchased by Cargill in 1978.[3][4][5]
See also
- Oliver Salt Company
- Eden Landing Ecological Reserve
- Laguna Creek Watershed
- Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
References
- ^ Walker's Manual of Far Western Corporations & Securities. 1944. p. 568.
- ^ Stephanie Castle. "South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project | Online Resources for Environmental Impact Analysis". UC Davis. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
- ^ "Spatial History Project". Stanford.edu. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
- ^ "Hidden Ecologies » Blog Archive » Arden Salt Works". Arch.ced.berkeley.edu. November 16, 2005. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
- ^ Allison, Louie (June 22, 2006). "Cargill Salt plans to shut down Redwood City plant '". East Bay Times.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leslie Salt Ponds.
- "Archimedes Screw Pump, Leslie Salt, Newark". Center for Creative Photography. The University of Arizona.
- "Leslie Salt". Schilling Family of companies website.