Saltville

Professor Bucher claimed that his furnace could be set up in a day at a cost of less than $100 and could turn out 150 pounds of sodium cyanide in 24 hours.

This process was placed freely at the disposal of the United States government for the war and a 10-ton plant was built at Saltville, Virginia by the Ordnance Department.

but the armistice put a stop to its operations and left the future of the process undetermined we might have expected that the fixation of nitrogen by passing an electrical spark through hot air would have been an american invention since it was franklin who snatched the lightning from the heavens as well as the scepter from the tyrant and since our output of hot air is unequaled by any other nation But little attention was paid to the nitrogen problem until 1916, when it became evident that we should soon be drawn into a war with a first-class power.

On June 3, 1916, Congress placed $20 million at the disposal of the President for investigation of the best, cheapest, and most available means for for the production of nitrate and other products for munitions of war and useful in the manufacture of fertilizers and other useful products by water power or any other power But by the time war was declared on April 6, 1917, no definite program had been approved, and by the time the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, no plants were in active operation.

Sometimes that's why they had them.

Saltville, Virginia.

They just had their own farmhands.

Saltville, Virginia.

Saltville, Virginia.

Yeah, and during the Civil War, that's where it got their name.

That's where they come and get all their salt, in the mountains.

Another thing that we've been working on is a new trail.

Saltville is one of the communities there.

It's an old salt mining community.

And so they wanted to do a trail extension off of Saltville.

And so we were able to also form some stakeholder and community engagement groups there and then also hire a grant writer with our subaward funds who has been writing grants and bringing in lots of funding for salt.

the county that worked.

Professor Buecher claimed that his furnace could be set up in a day at a cost of less than $100 and could turn out 150 pounds of sodium cyanide in 24 hours.

This process was placed freely at the disposal of the United States government for the war and a 10-ton plant was built at Saltville, Virginia by the Ordnance Department.

But the armistice put a stop to its operations and left the future of the process undetermined.

We might have expected that the fixation of nitrogen by passing an electrical spark through hot air would have been an American invention, since it was Franklin who snatched the lightning from the heavens as well as the scepter from the tyrant, and since our output of hot air is unequaled by any other nation.