The Saline Valley salt tram is located in Inyo County, California. The
electric aerial tramway was constructed from 1911 to 1913 to carry salt
from the Saline Valley, over the Inyo Mountains, and into the Owens
Valley. Covering a distance of 13.4 miles (21.6 km), it operated
sporadically from 1913 to 1935 for four different companies. The tram
was built for the Saline Valley Salt Company (SVSC) by the Trenton Iron
Company, but the costs of its construction and operation were ruinously
expensive for the SVSC. The salt mining operation and tram were leased
in 1915 to the Owens Valley Salt Company until the latter went bankrupt
in 1918. In 1920, the tram was taken over by the Trenton Iron Company,
which sold it to the Sierra Salt Company in 1928. The Sierra Salt
Company put it back into service until the company went bankrupt in
1935. During its operation, it was the steepest tram in the United
States. The tram was included in the National Register of Historic
Places in 1974.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saline_Valley_salt_tram>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1832:
Prospector Juan Godoy discovered a silver outcrop in
Chañarcillo, sparking the Chilean silver rush.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_silver_rush>
1925:
The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il
ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_ritorno_d%27Ulisse_in_patria>
1958:
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a supersonic interceptor
aircraft, set a world flight airspeed record of 1,404.012 mph
(2,259.538 km/h).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter>
1975:
Based on the results of a referendum held about one month
earlier, the Kingdom of Sikkim (flag pictured) abolished its monarchy
and was annexed to become the 22nd state of India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikkim>
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