] Like a Jules Verne fantasy, a ghostly city with its own
] network of four lane highways lies deep beneath the
] industrial heart of Detroit, its crystalline walls
] glittering and gleaming in the flickering light. It is a
] world of no night or day.
]
] It is a world of salt.
]
] This gigantic salt mine, 1,200 feet beneath the
] surface, spreads out over more than 1,400 acres with 50
] miles of roads. It lies underneath Dearborn's Rouge
] complex , much of Melvindale and the north end of Allen
] Park. The mine shaft opening is in Detroit.
]
] The International Salt Mine Company operated the
] mines until 1983, when falling salt prices brought a halt
] to production.