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Friday, March 15, 2013

An aboriginal salt mine at Camp Verde, Arizona. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 30, pt. 3 Morris, Earl Halstead, 1889-1956.

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/124

About a mile and a half westward of Camp Verde, Arizona, a mesa tongue juts southward from the foothills, the irregular contour of its crest breaking gradually downward until it merges with the floor of the Verde Valley. That salt was to be obtained from this rib of highland was learned soon after the first white settlers entered the valley. While troops were stationed at Camp Verde, salt for their animals was dug from
the hill, and in more recent years stock men of the vicinity have resorted to the same source for their supply.

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