Potash wars (California)
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The Potash wars were a series of conflicts over mineral rights that took place from 1910 to 1915 in the Searles Valley near Searles Lake, a dry lake, near the present-day town of Trona in San Bernardi
Trona, California, abuts northwest of the dry Searles Lake bed.
Stafford Wallace Austin and wife Mary Hunter Austin in 1910
Searles Lake playa bounded by the Argus and Slate Mountains
Dennis Searles in 1890 at Searles Lake
Pacific Coast Borax Company
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The Pacific Coast Borax Company was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis Smith, the "Borax King".
A 20-Mule Team Wagon, in Death Valley, California
Westend chemical plant engine, on display at Knott's Berry Farm.