New York State Museum. 57 



coal and sold as " Coarse lump " — pieces weighing from twenty 

 to 100 pounds, and coarse salt of about the grades of Syracuse 

 "Diamond" C. & F., or about like Turk's Island. 



Record of well on the Reed Farm, near the new shaft, Livonia, 

 N. Y., furnished by Mr. D. D. Luther: 



Clay, gravel and sand 56 



Shale 464 



Sand rock 10 



Slate (Shale?) 302 



Corniferous limestone 183 



Hydraulic lime 45 



Limerock 313^ 



Shale and salt 11£ 



Pure salt 35 



Salt and shale 8 



Pure salt 15 



Soft shale 114 



The first rock, according to Mr. Luther, is very near the top of 

 the Genesee shale. 



East of the Genesee valley three important wells have been 

 sunk ; at Ithaca, at Ludlowville on Cayuga lake, and at Morris- 

 ville, Madison Co. 



The well at Ludlowville, on the Auburn Division Lehigh 

 Valley R. R., about ten miles north of Ithaca, 1ST. Y., constitutes 

 the Cayuga Lake Salt Company. 



Buildings are now in process of erection and it is expected will 

 be ready for the manufacture of salt by December 1, 1891. I 

 have not yet obtained a report of this well. 



The remarkable well at Ithaca, N. Y., has been fully described 

 by Prof. Charles S. Prosser in an admirable paper in the Ameri- 

 can Geologist of October, 1890, which see. 



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