Salt Sales Salt is needed in areas of the nation where ice and snow is a problem, it is also used for curing meats, flavoring foods, salt is used to manufacture caustic soda and chlorine used in making paper and hundreds of other products, it is used as a food preservative, and it is used as a water softener.  Sea Salt is extracted from salty ocean waters, and the BorderTransportationSystem will have facilities to bring sea water from the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean inland for use in supplying desalinized water to homes, farms, horse ranches, industry, towns, and cities.  There will be an opportunity for persons to purchase the sea water and have it pumped into evaporation ponds where the very hot Arizona and New Mexico sun can evaporate the water thus leaving the valuable commodity behind, and for sale. Index of ... Industrial Uses of Salt Marketwatch - Salt prices Salt Production and Processing Salt sellers