Great tour and close! Not many working mines where you can go 650 ft below surface. Wife won’t do it, I recommend it highly, as well as the Cosmosphere!
Huge supplier of road salt around the country
Pretty common, but my folks lasts longer than that on farm well.
Figured the city would have gone to an RO system to filter that salt out, but that's a pretty good investment for a city that size.
Another note but, I lived in Meade, Ks. they had a lot of underground Electrical power lines, and owned there own Power Company. I went thru three winters there and as far as I can remember was never out of Power. Now in Western Okla. we are out of power at least 10 times per year at any time the wind blows. The wind was notoriously blowing in Western Ks. lots more than Here in OK. Seems like a lot of Kansas small towns are well prepared and ran very well. A lot of sharp mechanically inclined people live in rural Ks. towns. Great State in my OP. Your comment on water made me think of Old Meade, KS. memories. thanks.
The windy states really need to go underground with their utilities. We lost a wooden barn full of hay bales because the power lines contacted in a high wind creating sparks that set the grass on fire. Nothing left but a foundation now.
The last time we were in Hutchinson, they mandated masks on the tour, and we didn't have any with us. Since we were headed north anyway, we revisited Happy Jack Chalk Mine instead
I was born in Hutchinson and lived the next 25ish years in Kansas (Nickerson, Pratt, and Manhattan). I've never been to the salt mine, but it sounds like I should work it in sometime.
Interesting aside. I installed the security system in one of the Koch brothers new houses. He had about 10 fireplaces and after every usage of any fireplace he had a strong order of cattle feedlot.
The investigation came down to the fact he insisted upon using the roadway pavers from the old Wichita Cow Town. He had to redo every fireplace with other than authentic brick but he did have a great story to tell.
I stand corrected on my comments earlier regarding Compass Minerals owning this mine
Was with my son this past weekend in Dallas and he stated that the mine is privately owned.
His company’s operation is located between Hutchinson and Wichita
Was with my son this past weekend in Dallas and he stated that the mine is privately owned.
His company’s operation is located between Hutchinson and Wichita
