Flight over the El Paso Mountains-..

This is footage from a drone flight over the northern end of the El Paso Mountains. 

Briny Koehn Dry Lake can be seen in the distance; the nearby town of Saltdale was founded in 1914.  The town of Saltdale was a "company town" owned by the Consolidated Salt Company, which mined the salt from the lake bed. 

For the workers, living in Saltdale was a rather isolated existence, made worse by the fact that the prime salt harvesting season was the summer months!

By the late 1940's, salt production here had begun to wane- largely due to diminished rainfall during 1945.  By 1975, the Saltdale operation had ceased altogether.

Today, only a few traces of Saltdale remain.