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Boone's Lick Salt Works, 1805-33

出版	Missouri Archaeological Society, Incorporated, 1990
ISBN	09434147099780943414706
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=J33nwAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Boone's Lick Salt works, Missouri. The salt springs were discovered in late 1804 or early 1805 by Nathan Boone, who, along with his brother Daniel M. Boone, concluded a working agreement with the brothers James and Jesse Morrison with the objective of making salt.The Boones erected the first furnace and began salt production in early 1805. They left the business shortly thereafter; one in 1810 and the other in 1811. The Morrisons continued until about 1833. After that, salt production was diminished, becoming sporadic by 1855, and eventually closed down prior to 1872, following an unsuccessful attempt to revive the industry. The archaeological survey and tests conducted during the summer of 1986 resulted in the discovery of six brine-evaporating furnaces, three of which were probably twins; two salt springs enclosed by plank boxing forming wells, near which were remains of the brine-elevating and delivery systems; one, probably two sets of remains of log cabins which housed those systems; a drilled well with a plank casing enclosed by similar boxing; a nearby linear depression, possibly a loading dock; and part of a bridge approach or aqueduct trestle pier, the site of one nineteenth-century cabin, and the site of a prehistoric Indian camp. Except for broken iron-kettle fragments, nearly all the artifacts recovered were wood, and the excellent state of preservation was attributed to their waterlogged condition. The remains generally compared with those of contemporary salt operations in Illinois but revealed a persistence of primitive technology particularly in the brine-elevating mechanism and in the style and construction of a log cabin that housed it. Finally, The work demonstrated an unexpectedly high potential for additional detailed information on the salt-manufacturing industry at the Boone's Lick.