Leslie Salt

Leslie Salt ponds, 1972

The Leslie Salt Company was a salt-producing company located in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the current locations of Newark, Hayward and other parts of the bay.

Background[]

Cargill salt ponds near Newark in 2014

They produced salt using salt evaporation ponds on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. By the 1940s, Leslie Salt under the dominant ownership of the Schilling family ^[1] had become the largest private land owner in the Bay Area. By 1959, they were producing more than one million tons of salt annually, on over 26,000 acres (11,000 ha) of bay salt ponds.^[2] They were purchased by Cargill in 1978.^[3][4][5]

See also[]

• Oliver Salt Company
• Eden Landing Ecological Reserve
• Laguna Creek Watershed
• Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge

A box of Leslie Free Running Salt, with the brand name obscured, can be seen in The Three Stooges short "An Ache in Every Stake" (1941).

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leslie Salt Ponds.

• "Archimedes Screw Pump, Leslie Salt, Newark". Center for Creative Photography. The University of Arizona. Archived from the original on August 11, 2013.
• "Leslie Salt". Schilling Family of companies website.