From the Other Side

Located 70 miles east of Dallas, Texas, is a small town called Grand Saline — home of a salt mine owned by Morton Salt. On Main Street sits a relatively small building constructed in 1977, with walls and doorways made from blocks of salt. It houses the Salt Palace Museum. Each year in this town is a Salt Festival. The suggested slogan is, “So many salt jokes, so little time.” In 1982, that mine produced 400,000 tons of salt. It is said that “the salt found here can supply the world's craving for the next 20,000 years. After that, we'll need to find a substitute.” Salt domes make good storage areas because they are nice and dry.