Show i Ohio Ohio's laxly Sal elli V The first salt works of ot the white settlers of ot Ohio was established In ln 1798 1793 at nt an Indian source of ot salt the springs on the banks of ot Salt creek reek it II tributary of the Scioto river In Jackson county The sett settlers setters rs to Increase Increase In In- crease the supply sank wells toa to toa a II de depth th of ot 30 feet and for tor many years the fires tires burned beneath th the salt kettles at nt this location location These salt springs had been Indicated on maps as ns early as 1755 and before th the settlement of the region the Indians In In- Indians used to came from long distances distances dis dis- to make salt there Daniel Boone Doone as ns an Indian prisoner spent some orne time at ot the salt works |