This film clip showing the black line had to have been filmed before the federal collection ditch was dredged to the south west of the current long course #1 to get this perspective of Floating Mountain, not only is there no salt coverage at this location today, you would also have had to lept over the dike/berm left when the ditch was dredged in the late 60s and early 70s. The drag line booms were visible at the far end of this ditch in 1969 and it was not finished back to the culvert under I-80 until the early 70s. This ditch carried away the majority of the brine that was extracted from the eleven mineral leases on the north side of I-80 to Kaiser Chemical, then Reilly Industries, now Intrepid Potash. The significant decrease in salt coverage along the southeast edge of the long course and specifically any return run starting area for the international course are a direct result of extensive mineral extraction in this area.
