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The Leslie Salt Company was a salt-producing company located in the
They produced salt using
San Francisco Bay Area
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, at the current locations of Newark
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, Hayward and other parts of the bay.
Background
They produced salt using salt evaporation ponds
A salt evaporation pond is a shallow artificial salt pan designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines. The Salt pans are shallow and large of size because it will be easier for sunlight to travel and reach the sea water. Natural s ...
on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. By the 1940s, Leslie Salt under the dominant ownership of the Schilling Schilling may refer to:
* Schilling (unit), an historical unit of measurement
* Schilling (coin), the historical European coin
* Austrian schilling, the former currency of Austria
* A. Schilling & Company, an historical West Coast spice firm acquir ...
family 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 of bay salt ponds. They were purchased by Cargill in 1978.
See also
*Oliver Salt Company
Oliver Salt Company was a saltworks located on the San Francisco Bay adjacent to Hayward, California, which produced salt by evaporation from the San Francisco Bay Area. The remains of their facilities are within Eden Landing Ecological Reserve.
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*Eden Landing Ecological Reserve
Eden Landing Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve in Hayward, California, Hayward and Union City, California, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. The reserve is managed by the California Department of Fish and Game and comprises 5,040 acr ...
*Laguna Creek Watershed
The Laguna Creek watershed consists of of land within northern California's Alameda County. The watershed drains the foothills of the Diablo Range south of Niles Canyon. To the southeast, the area of Mission Peak Regional Preserve around Miss ...
*Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge (DESFBNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge located in the southern part of San Francisco Bay, California. The Refuge headquarters and visitor center is located in the Baylands dist ...
A box of Leslie Free Running Salt, with the brand name obscured, can be seen in The Three Stooges short "An Ache in Every Stake" (1941).
References
External links
* * {{Salt topics Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Saltworks History of the San Francisco Bay Area Food and drink in the San Francisco Bay Area History of Hayward, California Food and drink companies based in California