Lochiel. Ripening wheat crop.

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Lochiel. The Hundred of Cameron which includes Lochiel was surveyed and land sold in 1869. Captain John Ellis had leased land in this area from 1842 prior to survey and closer settlement. His run was known as the Hummocks Run and extended from those hills to Bumbunga and across to Brinkworth. His homestead was located adjacent to springs near Lake Bumbunga about 2 kms out of Lochiel township. The other leaseholder in the district was Robert Barr Smith. With surveying came a group of farmer settlers, rather than pastoralists. Lochiel grew slowly, the main industry being salt harvesting from the saline lakes near the town. The first salt harvesting began in the late 1880s at the northern end of Lake Bumbunga and it was this industry which kept Lochiel alive. Cave and Co took out the salt work lease from 1900. Salt was carted by drays to Snowtown, and then railed away to the port of Wallaroo. Then the Australian Salt Company started works on the southern end of Lake Bumbunga in 1913. Because the 1925 new broad gauge line to Redhill did not pass through Lochiel, a small branch line was built from Bumbunga to Lochiel to service the salt works. This 4½ mile line opened in 1926. The salt works continued and boomed in the 1930s and during World War Two when the harvesting was mechanized (horses dragged scrapping equipment before this time.) In the 1950s the Australia Salt Works Company built three new houses in Lochiel making a total of nine company houses in the town. By the late 1960s only six men were employed in the salt works. The railway line continued in service until closure in 1981 as by then the salt works had finally closed down.

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