. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . Fig. 9. Old Fort Johnson, Amsterdam, New YorkBuilt by Sir William Johnson, 1742 thought that he had thrown his money away in buyingswamp lands where only mosquitoes, rattlesnakes, andbears could live, but he saw farther than they did. Ifhe had been unwilling to take any risk, he would neverhave laid out the first streets of the prosperous citywhich now bears his name. Syracuse, like Utica and Rochester, had its own wayof beginning. We can truly say that at first salt made. SCALE OF MILES 0 10 20 40 60 80 100 New York, Lake Erie and Western Rai
. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . Fig. 9. Old Fort Johnson, Amsterdam, New YorkBuilt by Sir William Johnson, 1742 thought that he had thrown his money away in buyingswamp lands where only mosquitoes, rattlesnakes, andbears could live, but he saw farther than they did. Ifhe had been unwilling to take any risk, he would neverhave laid out the first streets of the prosperous citywhich now bears his name. Syracuse, like Utica and Rochester, had its own wayof beginning. We can truly say that at first salt made. SCALE OF MILES 0 10 20 40 60 80 100 New York, Lake Erie and Western RailroadDelaware, Lackawanna and Western RailroadNew York Central and Hudson River RailroadNew York, Ontario and Western RailroadDelaware and Hudson RailroadErie Canal (old location) PIONEERS OF THE MOHAWK AND HUDSON 27 the city. The beds of salt are not directly under Syra-cuse, but are in the hills not far away. The water fromthe rains and springs dissolves some of this salt, and asit flows down it fills the grav^els in and around the all was yet forest the Indian women had madesalt from the brine which oozed up in the springs. Solong ago as 1770, five years before the Revolution, theDelaware Indians went after Onondaga salt, and a littleof it w^as now and then brought down to Albany. Some-times it was sold far down the St. LawTcnce in Quebec. The pioneers first made salt there in 1788. This wasseveral years before the Genesee road was cut throughthe woods. One of these men, a Mr. Danforth, whosename a su
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