Salduro, Utah facts for kids

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Ghost town
Western Pacific Railroad in Salduro, 1911
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Country	United States
State	Utah
County	Tooele
Elevation	4,219 ft (1,286 m)
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
GNIS feature ID	1437674

Salduro (also Salduro Siding) is a ghost town located in Tooele County, Utah, United States.

History

Eastbound Western Pacific Railroad passenger train crossing the Bonneville Salt Flats near Salduro (1912).

A rest area on Interstate 80 was built at the former settlement. A plaque there commemorates the land speed records set on the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Salduro formed next to the Western Pacific Railroad, which was completed in the early 1900s. Significant salt beds were identified during the construction of the railroad, and several mining claims soon followed. After several years of unprofitable attempts to produce salt, the claims were leased by the Capell Salt Company, which erected a small mill near Salduro.

Around 1916, the Capell Salt Company merged into (or was transferred to) the Solvay Process Company, a potash producer. That same year, the Solvay Process Company began extracting potash from subsurface brines of the Salduro Salt Marsh. The operation was constructed on the south side of the Western Pacific Railroad at Salduro station.

On June 23, 1924, U.S. Army test pilot Russell Maughan performed the first dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States, flying a Curtiss P-1 Hawk. One of his five refueling stops was in Salduro.

The settlement gained prominence in the 1930s and 40s when significant potash and salt were mined nearby.

Decline

In 1944, the potash plant at Salduro closed. Shortly after, fire swept through the settlement, and it was soon abandoned.