Show 234 Kiesel continued to harvest raw salt chiefly for the smelters in Montana To accomodate the salt and resort Adams and trade the Union Pacific Railroad Company built a spur from Clearfield to the Syracuse location Since the discontinuance of the resort and salt business this rail line is used chiefly to haul sugar beet3 to the nearby refineries No passenger trains ever run over it now The history of the Syracuse Salt Works is typical of Most of them were evenmany other small salt enterprises tually crowded out or bought out by the Morton Salt Company On occasion violence and threatened gun play resulted from friction between the larger and smaller companies The Morton company was finally able to gain control of most of Hothe favorable salt harvesting sites around the lake wever when the lake receded so far after its 1925 high water mark hundreds of acres of favorable salt harvesting land were uncovered between the Morton holdings and the actual water line Attempts were then made to encroach on the Morton monopoly over the In 1939 C J Call forced a right-of-wMorton holdings and started the Ritz Salt Company to furnish salt for the 0 P Skaggs Company After two years Morton bought out the Ritz Salt Company The next intrusion upon the monopoly of the Morton Salt Company was made by the Solar Salt Company incorporated in 1940 by A T Smith of Clearfield They began ay 16 Westenskow County Utah" 168 "The Economic Development of Davis I |