BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Piffard, salt works at, 2i 2 , 36 s . 



Plaster, sources, 22 s , 23 8 -24 2 . See also 



Bitterns ; Gypsum. 

 Plaster of Paris, formation, 54 6 -55 2 ; in 



Onondaga salt, 58*; chief obstacle in 



salt manufacture, 66 2 . 

 Port Gibson, gypsum quarries at, 75 2 . 

 Preface, 5-6. 



Quarries, owners and localities, 71 4 . 



Reals, Simon, quarry, 79 s . 



Red sea, specific gravity, g 5 . 



Red shale of Salina group, 22 7 , 23 s , 25 1 . 



Rehan, James, gypsum quarry, 7g 7 . 



Richardson, John, sup't of Federal com- 

 pany, 17 6 . 



Richland, salt springs at, 18 6 . 



Rock Glen, Kerr salt works at, 20 9 , 34 s . 



Rock salt, alternating with other deposits, 

 io 5 , 11 5 ; deposition, g 6 -i4 6 ; distribu- 

 tion in New York, ig 5 -2i 9 ; distribution 

 in U. S., 7 5 ; geologic occurrence, 7 7 - 

 8 3 , 14 1 , 25 1 ; quality, 37 s ; relation to 

 Salina group, 17 6 , 19 5 , 25'; secondary 

 occurrences, 8 3 ; south of Syracuse, 21 9 ; 

 at Stassfurt, 14 3 ; See also Mining. 



Rooms in salt yard, 40 1 . 42 4 -43 1 , 43 8 -44 ] . 



Salina group, distribution in N. Y., 22 1 - 

 25 s ; four deposits, 22 6 , 24 s . 



Salina salt works, first well at, 17 3 . 



Salmon creek, salt springs on, 19 1 . 



Salt, brands, 42 4 , 61 8 , derivation, 37 7 ; 

 distributed in New York, i4 1 -25; geolo- 

 gic occurrence, 7 7 -8 3 , 14 1 , 22 1 -23 5 ; 

 grades, 42*, 46 s , 47 1 , 55 s , 56 7 , 57 3 — 58 s , 

 60 5 , 61 3 ; sales, law regulating, 44 s , 55 7 . 

 See also Manufacture of salt ; Mining 

 of salt; Rock-salt; Wells. 



Salt, amount produced ; at Syracuse, 44°, 

 by Onondaga kettle process, 55 s , 65 6 ; 

 by pan process, 48 1 ; table. 



Salt, composition, 7 3 ; composition of 

 marketed, 58 s . 



Salt aprons, 43 2 . 



Salt beds, deposition, g 6 -i4 6 ; altitude, 

 3l 8 -33 x ; dip, 32 8 . See also Rock-salt. 



Salt blocks, 4g 7 ; number, 52 s ; produc- 

 tion, 55 8 -56 2 , 65 s . 



Salt springs, derivation, 8 7 ; distribution 

 in New York, i4 7 -ig 4 , 20 3 ; in red sand- 

 stone, 18 6 . 



Saltspringville springs, 18 2 . 



Saltvale, rock salt at, 20 5 , 35*. 



Screening, 42*. 



Sea water, composition, 8 9 -g 5 ; causes of 

 variation, g 3 ; derivation of salt from, 

 37 7 -38 5 . 



Secondary occurrence of crystalized 

 salt, 8 3 . 



Selenite, 70 3 . 



Severance, F. M., quarry, 72 1 , 79 s , 80 2 , 

 80 7 . 



Shale, gypseous, 22 7 , 23 s ; red, 22 7 , 23 s , 



25 1 - 



Sheedy, T. W., quarry, 79 1 . 



Sherman, L. D., quarry, 78 6 . 



Silver Springs, salt works at, 20 8 , 34 5 , 61 1 . 



Snook, Clark, quarry, 79 1 . 



Soda ash, manufacture at Geddes, 33 6 . 



Solar evaporation, 37 7 , 3g 8 -44 9 ; "aprons," 

 43 2 -44 3 ; limitations of production, 44 s . 



Soluble salts, depositions, n 2 . 



Sperenburg salt beds, formation, n 6 . 



Stassfurt salt beds, formation, n 6 , 14 2 . 



Steam evaporation, by kettle process, 

 56 s — 58 s ; by grainer process, 58 9 -6o 9 . 



Stephens, William, first sup't of Onon- 

 daga salt works, 17 1 , 3g 3 . 



Stucco works at Oakfield, 84 s . 



Syracuse, gypsum quarry near, 78 7 . 



Table of analyses, facing p. 38; of brine 

 composition, 63 1 ; of brine and pickle 

 composition, 41 5 ; of brines, fachig p. 62; 

 of changes during pan process, 47 8 -48 2 ; 

 of composition of marketed salt, 57 s ; of 

 gypsum production, 81 6 ; of Onondaga 

 salt wells, 58 7 ; of salt distribution, 7 8 -8 3 ; 

 of salt production, 68; of sea waters, 

 g 1 , of well sections in pocket. 



Taylor, George, gypsum quarry, 7g 8 . 



Tod, Richard, gypsum quarry, 7g 9 . 



Tompkins co., salt works, 61 2 . 



Tonawanda Indian reservation, gypsum 

 quarries, 78*. 



Triangle, salt springs at, 18 4 . 



Tully, salt works at, 21 8 , 33 s . 



Tuttle, Irving, gypsum quarry, 80 4 . 



