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cumstances was probably just; at least, according to 

 Professor Cook, no mean authority, it was fully equal 

 to the best imported salt. This statement was corrobo- 

 rated by Professor Porter, chemist to the New York 

 State Agricultural Society, who said it was equal in 

 purity to any of the foreign salts. 'Under the superin- 

 tendence of Dr. Goessmann,' said a leading chemist in 

 1867, 'the Salt Company of Onondaga has succeeded 

 in making the best Dairy Salt in the world.' In Goess- 

 mann's time the salt works at Syracuse produced an- 

 nually eight million bushels of salt. 



In the autumn of 1862 he was sent to Michigan to 

 examine the brines and saline deposits at Saginaw 

 and here it may be mentioned that eight years later, 

 in 1870, Dr. Samuel S. Garrigues of Ann Arbor, state 

 inspector of salt and a former Gottingen student, 

 visited Dr. Goessmann at Amherst, and together they 

 framed the salt laws of Michigan. 



In March 1866, he was appointed consulting cor- 

 respondent of the American Bureau of Mines, and in 

 October of that year was commissioned by the Board 

 of Experts to undertake the technical, chemical, and 

 industrial investigation of the recently discovered rock- 

 salt deposit of Petite Anse Island, New Iberia, on 

 Vermilion Bay, Louisiana. In November he visited 

 the island, where he remained several weeks, studying 

 the natural features, conditions, and commercial rela- 

 tions of its rock-salt deposit. The next year he made 

 two visits to Canada, the first in the latter part of 

 June and the second the last of December, for the 

 purpose of ascertaining the extent of the saline 



