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astrolabe newsletter of the Turks & Caicos National Museum This picture from the 1906 postcard illustrates how the circa 1875 steam-operated salt grinding mill on Grand Turk was structured. A Salty Mystery Why would anyone copy this old picture postcard? By Jeffrey Dodge ~ Images Courtesy Jeffrey Dodge Why, in the early 1920s, would someone on Grand Turk island want to copy a specific 1906 picture postcard that was out of print and no longer obtainable? Was the picture on this 1906 postcard of special interest to someone? Most likely. What was this “important” picture? It was a circa 1875 steam-operated salt grinding plant on Grand Turk. 74 www.timespub.tc
astrolabe newsletter of the Turks & Caicos National Museum The only explanation that makes sense is that someone, perhaps a photographer but most likely someone else, wanted multiple postcards made from a picture of this salt grinding facility because he or she was somehow associated with it. Ground salt, known as fish salt, was important to the salt industries on South Caicos, Grand Turk and Salt Cay because it commanded a higher price than unprocessed coarse salt. The reason? The fishermen and fish packers in New England and Nova Scotia required it to preserve fish. in the 1906 postcard consisted of three parts—a building to house the steam boiler and engine, a wooden hopper shaped in the form of a shallow vee and a warehouse where the ground salt was stored. The two buildings in picture below were connected by the hopper. The grinding process began by unloading coarse salt from donkey carts onto the hopper. Two men on the hopper would push and shovel the salt down an opening where a crusher would grind it. The ground salt would fall onto a conveyor belt that moved it to the warehouse for storage prior to shipping. Josiah A. Frith and Jeremiah D. Murphy formed the firm of Frith and Murphy in 1873 and imported the first steam machine for grinding salt to the Turks & Caicos Islands in 1874—specifically, to South Caicos. Within a year, two such steam grinding machines were operating on Grand Turk. A few years later there were three steam grinding facilities there and two on South Caicos. Steamoperated salt grinding never reached Salt Cay. Instead, Salt Cay turned to wind to power their salt grinding machinery. The steam-operated salt grinding installation pictured This is an example (front and back) of the original machine-printed 1906 Grinding Salt postcard. Times of the Islands Fall 2020 75
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