| "According to Granville Stuart ..., the Snake Indians interchangeably called the Salt River 'To-sa car-nel' meaning 'white lodges' and taking note of a number of small white gyserite cones left along its course by extinct mineral springs, and 'O-na-bit-a-pah,' which he translated to mean 'salt water,' and which referred of course to the salt ledges and saline springs which occur along its principal tributaries, Crow and Stump or Stumph Creeks. Tradition says that Indians in prehistoric times traveled great distances to secure salt from deposits along these two streams ..." (Linford) |
