Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation Soda Ash Plant, Bartlett

USA / California / Lone Pine /
 historic ruins, soda ash plant
The railroad siding of Bartlett was long the home of a soda ash plant. The first plant located here was the Kuhnert Syndicate's pilot-scale plant built in 1926. The plant perfected their sodium carbonate recovery process from the Owens Lake brine, and built the full-scale Pacific Alkali Co. soda ash plant here in 1928. In 1944, Columbia-Southern Chemical, a subsidiary of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, purchased the plant. The plant continued to use the old sodium carbonate recovery methods here until the plant was upgraded late in 1958 to incorporate the sesquicarbonate process, and it had three times the capacity of the old plant. Operations ended in 1968. It is the ruins of the 1958 plant upgrade that are seen today.

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Coordinates:   36°28'33"N   118°1'58"W

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  • The final scenes of the movie "The Violent Road" staring Brian Keith were shot here.
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