Death Valley National Park is lookingfor info that might assistance authorities determine the individual or people accountable for damaging a 113-year-old cablecar tower.
The toppling of the historical salt tower in Saline Valley appears to haveactually been triggered by a driver who endedupbeing stuck while driving unlawfully off-road.
“It appears the tower was pulled over while a individual utilized a winch to extract their lorry out of deep mud,” the park specified Wednesday in a news release. “The damage tookplace atsomepoint inbetween April 1 and April 24.”
Tram tower standing upright, before it was harmed. Photo: NPS
The rootedout structure was part of a cablecar system constructed by the Saline Valley Salt Company in 1911.
The Saline Valley Salt Tram, noted on the National Register of Historic Places, was utilized to provide salt from Saline Valley to the Owens Valley – covering a increase of more than 7,000 vertical feet.
“Tram tower No. 1 is the tower closest to Saline Valley lakebed,” the park continued. “Nearby tracks program that a car drove a brief range off the legal road and got stuck in mud.
Tram tower after it was rootedout by a driver driving off-road. Photo: NPS
“Park rangers think that somebody utilized the tower as an anchor to pull their lorry out of the mud. T