. Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century. at time all salt-boiling erections have beencalled salt blocks. TheFederal Company was com-posed of the following men :Asa Danforth, JedediahSanger, Daniel Keeler,Thomas Hart, EbenezerButler, Hezekiah Olcott,and Elisha Alvord. Withina short time they sold outto Dioclesian and ElishaAlvord, who remained in partnership until 1813, and both manufac-tured salt many years thereafter. Prior to 1797 each person was a squatter, planting his kettles atthe point most convenient to the shallow hole from which he dipped orpumped his salt water. The kettles
. Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century. at time all salt-boiling erections have beencalled salt blocks. TheFederal Company was com-posed of the following men :Asa Danforth, JedediahSanger, Daniel Keeler,Thomas Hart, EbenezerButler, Hezekiah Olcott,and Elisha Alvord. Withina short time they sold outto Dioclesian and ElishaAlvord, who remained in partnership until 1813, and both manufac-tured salt many years thereafter. Prior to 1797 each person was a squatter, planting his kettles atthe point most convenient to the shallow hole from which he dipped orpumped his salt water. The kettles held from twenty to forty gallons,until about the close of the century, when a furnace at Taberg, Oneidacounty, was established and cast them of larger capacity. After dippingthe brine from shallow holes or pits for a considerable time, these weremade larger and deeper as the demand for water increased, and pumpslook the place of pail and dipper. The establishment of permanentblocks and the necessity for larger supplies of water led the persons. Thomas G. Alvord. THE VILLAGE AND THE CITY OF SYRACUSE. 585 engaged in the business to combine and dig a well. It was situatedopposite the present State pump house in the First ward, just across thecanal north of it, and was fourteen feet long, ten feet wide, and twenty-five feet deep. In it was placed a pump which reached about twentyfeet into the air and around this was a platform on which to stand andwork the pump. From this platform to each of the blocks ran Y-shapedtroughs, which were attached to the pump spout as needed. By theside of the kettles in each block was a reservoir, or cistern, made In-digging out a huge whitewood tree, like a great canoe. These methodsprevailed to about 1817. when horse power was introduced to work thepump. The early settlers at the salt springs were mostly New Englanders,and many of them from Connecticut. They were either Revolutionarysoldiers or the sons of such, and brought here endurance, strength,
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