The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-12-31

SALT BUSINESS OF Nav YoKK Salt is appa :
renty abundant all over the world, and is found
in all Chimes The most remarkable the salt mines
of wieska in Poland Catalonia in Spain; Asmonts in
Calabria; Loowm in Hungary; Tunis in Algiers and
Cheshire in England These mines are rocks OF pure
salt The mines in Poland are upon an immense scale.
Dwellings and chapels formed in the solid rock In
the sea- in all latitudes, it il found in solution at an
depths Many inland lakes mPregnaed Salt springs
also abound in all countries In Short salt Is inexnaus
All the salt manufactured this State from saines
ous 'hg sna hsr. asr T. by the
In early times brine spring was operated in Oswego
county only four per Ssn. OF saline .a
work bat was only ono Of the Inconvenience Of new
brine was found in 1898 near Delhi and rock has
been bored 400 feet dsep-soms saltmade and finally
abandoned.
AT Vernon Centre Oneida county spring has recent.
ly been discovered but never worked There are also
springs at Lsnox, Madison county, and several small
one. in osweEo county, not used
is well spoken Of ed brine pure. Works were once
erected the Of Savannah The brine yielded but
Salt was formerly made at Lockvlls. At little Sodus
Bay spriog has been experimental WITH and found to
made by Company in 1884, at Clyde, to the depth Of
400 feet good bfine found at first but it has now
ceased.
In Dundee Yates county ALSO springs have been dis.
covered, and some very fine salt produced but they
have never been worked to any extent
QUOT Bay and in Greece, nine miles west Of this city
There are three springs Salmon Creek, in Clarkson
Twenty years ago they were worked Admitted scale
we'll Of fifty feet sunk in York in 1894. A good
brine flowed for week two and then ceased to
Orleans county has number of springs In Carlton
brine has recently been obtained of good quality bor-
ing 81 feet II the quantity proves sufficient, and
wood is low, it may BIO worked. Salt has been made at
Kendall IN small quantities for several years At Holly
there three springs which have yielded
salt but abandoned. Mr. Bennett has bored ut
Oak Orchard l47 feet, and made some salt.
Salt is said TO have been made from spring three miles
from Lockport in the early settlement of the country
La Grange, steuben also formerly furnished some
The springs at Monte yuma, Cayuga county, were
shown the first settlers by the Indians In 1923, the
quantity made not lar from 20, 900 bushels Since
then the manufacture has decreased and is almost
abandoned Governor Seward twice called the attention
of the Legislature to erect pump works like those Of
Onondsga, to revive the works. II memory
US, 1t was never done
The salines on Onondaga Lake were found out from
the Indians in 1888 by Comfort Tyler, Esq He took
Indian guide in Q canoe and crossed the Lake to Mud
Creek and there lowered iron vessel about Eve feet
into the lake and to salt water. By boiling the
water salt was obtained The business carried
rudely for many years small scale. The Erie Canal
added much to their importance, and since the com
pleon of that work. the yearly increase has been rapid
sold. In 1872, hydraulic machinery for pumping wa!
erected The lessees required to erect works. and
no rent is paid except the duty.
The ncrease of the manufacture of salt will be
by the following table Of the quantity annually made for