102 ECONOMICAL MINERALOGY. 



A few salines are known to exist in Monroe County, but they are not of any importance 

 in an economical point of view. One of these, found many years since, is on the Irondequoit 

 bay, two or three miles from Lake Ontario. Salt was at one time manufactured from this 

 brine. Another spring, also formerly somewhat worked, is in the town of Greece, two miles 

 north of the Ridge road, and nine miles west of the city of Rochester. To these may be 

 added three springs on the banks of Salmon creek in Clarkson, two miles north of Ladd's 

 Corners. Salt springs are moreover of frequent occurrence along almost all the creeks or 

 small streams, and salt was formerly manufactured from some of them in small quantities. 



In 1834, salt water was found in Livingston County, two and a half miles southwest of 

 York, as I was informed by Mr. E. N. Horsford. Strong brine flowed for a few days from 

 the mouth of the well, which was fifty feet in depth ; but it subsequently diminished in quan- 

 tity, and at length entirely ceased to rise. 



Salt water has been found by "boring in the town of Elba, in Genesee County, eight miles 

 northwest of Batavia ; and this has been pronounced by Mr. Hall as the most copious and 

 strongly impregnated saline in the Fourth Geological District. It rises from the true salife- 

 rous formation, tlie rock being the same as that found at Salina. 



A number of brine springs have been. observed in Orleans County, upon the range of 

 sandstone. In the town of Carlton, three or four miles from Lake Oi tario, brine has recently 

 been obtained, one gallon of which affords eleven ounces of dry saline matter. In this case 

 the boring is twenty-six feet tlirough the alluvial, and twenty-seven feet through the red marl 

 and sandstone, in which the brine was first observed. If it shall hereafter be found that the 

 quantity of brine is sufiicient, its strength would probably warrant the manufacture of salt to 

 a limited extent, as fuel can be here obtained at a very low price. At Kendall, four miles 

 east of the preceding locality, the manufacture of salt is said to have been prosecuted with 

 profit, though on a small scale, for the last two years.* On examining this brine, I found it 

 to be similar in composition to that from the Onondaga springs, but of inferior .strength. At 

 Holley village, three salt springs were known, which have yielded a considerable amount of 

 salt of a very good quality. The works are now, however, abandoned. To these may be 

 added the spring at Oak-orchard, where salt was manufactured by Mr. Bennett, who bored to 

 the depth of one hundred and forty feet, without, however, having obtained an increased 

 quantity of brine. 



In Niagara County, according to Mr. Hall, several brine springs occur along the course 

 of Eighteen-mile creek, between Lockport and Lake Ontario. Brine springs, affording small 

 quantities of water, are also found along Golden-hill creek and Johnson's creek. Salt is said 

 to have been formerly made from a spring within three miles of Lockport.t 



In Steuben County, there is a salt spring at Lagrange, in the green shale, from which 

 ■salt was formerly made. It emits bubbles of carburetted hydrogen, but the saline is of no 

 importance. 



* For this and the preceding notice, I am indebted to Dr. James M. Allen. This gentleman also informs me, that during ihs 

 last summer ( 184 1 ), brine springs were frequently met with in deepening wells between the Lockport limestone and Lake Ontai io. 

 i HM. yeu-York Geological Reports, \83S. 



