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and accepted, the position of Chemist and Superin- 

 tendent of the Salt Company of Onondaga. 



This company had been established near Syracuse in 

 March 1860 about a year, therefore, before Dr. 

 Goessmann's appointment. It was formed, not only 

 for the purpose of uniting the interests of the different 

 manufacturers of Onondaga salt, but in order to secure 

 a more thorough and systematic management, to re- 

 duce the cost of manufacture, and to improve and give 

 uniformity to the character and quality of Onondaga 

 salt. Such a co-operation of interests under a single 

 control would doubtless now be stigmatized as a mo- 

 nopoly and 'trust.' 



'Regarding as of the utmost importance that a per- 

 fectly pure salt should be furnished for the use of all 

 engaged in making an article of such universal use as 

 butter, and fully appreciating the necessity of such 

 perfect uniformity in its quality as to command the 

 confidence of dairymen, the Salt Company of Onon- 

 daga has placed the manufacture of its Factory-filled 

 Dairy Salt under the superintendence of an accom- 

 plished chemist, who has for several years past made 

 agricultural and manufacturing chemistry his specialty, 

 Dr. C. A. Goessmann, a graduate of, and for some 

 years a teacher in the German University of Gottingen, 

 and who has for more than a year past devoted his 

 entire attention, in the employment of this company, 

 to the improvement of the processes of manufacturing 

 salt.' 1 The claim made by the company, of making 

 'the best Dairy Salt known to the world? under the cir- 



1 Report of the Salt Company of Onondaga for 1862. 



