Annual report . r process used more ex-tensively. By the solar process the brine is evaporated in shallowwooden vats by the heat of the sun in the summer season, the vatsnot being operated in the winter. By this process a coarse salt usedlargely in meat packing and refrigeration is produced. By thekettle process a finer quality of table and dairy salt is made. From 1797 to 1904 there were 430,000,000 bushels, or over12,000,000 tons, of salt produced in the yards around Onondagalake. The maximum output was in the year 1862 with 9,530,874bushels. The wells were formerly owned by the State, which
Annual report . r process used more ex-tensively. By the solar process the brine is evaporated in shallowwooden vats by the heat of the sun in the summer season, the vatsnot being operated in the winter. By this process a coarse salt usedlargely in meat packing and refrigeration is produced. By thekettle process a finer quality of table and dairy salt is made. From 1797 to 1904 there were 430,000,000 bushels, or over12,000,000 tons, of salt produced in the yards around Onondagalake. The maximum output was in the year 1862 with 9,530,874bushels. The wells were formerly owned by the State, which ex-acted a small royalty from the manufacturers, based on the amountof salt produced, but they were recently transferred to privateownership. SWAMP AND LAKE DEPOSITSPEAT, MUCK, MARL AND CLAY In the lake basins and swamp areas of the Syracuse region arequite extensive accumulations of vegetable, animal and mineralmatter of considerable economic importance. They have been THE CEOLCGY OF THE SYRACUSE QUADRANGLE 35. > 36 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM utilized very little as yet and the extent of the deposits below thesurface is largely a matter of conjecture. A systematic examination of a portion of one of the largerswamp areas of the region was made during the fall and winterof 1912 by two of the graduate students of Syracuse the course of the examination numerous borings were madeby means of a clay auger through the swamp deposits to theunderlying gravel. The borings were made at intervals of 100feet along five north and south lines 300 feet apart. These north-south lines across the swamp varied in length from 1400 to 4300feet, making in all 128 bore holes. From the hundreds of samplesthus collected the character and extent of the deposits in this areawere determined with a great degree of accuracy. The results of the investigation showed at the surface of thearea a bed of peat varying from 1 to 31 feet thick; thinnest at themargin and increasing toward the middle, but
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