207:...a rare, perhaps only, surviving example of an 1860s kettle and pan salt production facility in the United States. Salt was in high demand in that era as an element used in processing gold ores, and also for domestic and agricultural uses. Before the railroads arrived, salt had to be shipped overland by wagon from Missouri and brought prices as high as seven cents per pound in Denver and eight cents per pound in Central City. A barrel of salt sold for forty to fifty dollars and "a salt well was then was as good as a gulch mine." While other salt springs existed in the state, the Colorado Salt Works was the only site ever improved with the erection of a salt works.
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