The following is from Dr. Jim Kennedy Dover, NJ:
In the 1919 and 1920 my father worked for the American Borax and Potash Company. He and two other young men, each independently, took pack horses and armed with Winchester ’94 carbines and for months at a time on horseback rode the perimeter and internal areas of the company’s land. My father’s name was James Davis Kennedy (1902 – 1996). He worked for for about two years. He was originally from San Francisco.
I have pictures of him in Trona (on the company railroad) and in Ballarat. Also a place I believe was called “Indian Joe’s Wells. I would very much like to find out more about that time in Trona or to find anyone who might have knowledge of my dad. Perhaps employee records or other co-workers.
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- Bunkhouses # 1, 2, 3, 4 in Trona
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- Evaporative Cooing Tower
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- Top of Evaporative Cooling Tower
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- “Mexican Central” Railway
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- Car and Train Car in Front of Plant
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- Worker in Front of Railway Office
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- Worker Near the Old School
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- Intersection in 1920’s Trona
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- Worker by AP&CC Sign
