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Section of the Ckystai, Salt Comi>any's Well. 



Approximate altitude 980' A. T. (') 



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Sand and gravel. 



depth, "^"ess!" kind of rock. formation. 



?6' 



One mile south of Wyoming on the western side of the valley 

 is the " Pioneer " salt well, in which rock salt was first found in New 

 York state in 1878. A section of this well was published by Dr. 

 Engelhardt in 1882. (") The section is repeated in the report of the 

 following year and again in 1889. There are slight variations in the 

 three accounts of this well ; but in the main the last report has been 

 followed in the compilation of the section given below : 



(i.) Ann. Rept. Supt. Onondaga Salt springs for 1888, Chart No. III. 



(2.) Ann. Rept. Supt. Onondaga Salt Springs for iSSi, -■Ossein. Doc. for 1882, No. 16, p. 20. 



Prof. Bishop states that a section of this well was published by Mr. Jas. Macfarlane in the Syra- 

 ruse [.v. J'.] Journa/, in the latter part of July, 1878 (5th Ann. Rept. State Geologist [of New York], 

 for 1885, p. 21). 



