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  Forty-seventh 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  The 
  Salt 
  in 
  the 
  shales 
  at 
  Livonia 
  was 
  rather 
  loosely 
  crystal- 
  

   line, 
  and 
  cream 
  to 
  pale 
  red 
  in 
  color. 
  

  

  At 
  Greigsville 
  and 
  Lehigh 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  salt, 
  and 
  also 
  the 
  gyp- 
  

   sum 
  from 
  the 
  veins 
  in 
  the 
  red 
  and 
  green 
  shales, 
  was 
  very 
  bright 
  

   red. 
  The 
  salt 
  in 
  the 
  limestone 
  was 
  clear 
  and 
  transparent, 
  or 
  

   nearly 
  so. 
  

  

  The 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  bed 
  of 
  rock 
  salt 
  in 
  the 
  Livonia 
  shaft 
  is 
  

   1,369 
  feet 
  from 
  the 
  surface 
  and 
  503 
  feet 
  below 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  

   Corniferous 
  limestone. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Retsof 
  shaft 
  it 
  is 
  583 
  feet 
  from 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  Cornifer- 
  

   ous 
  to 
  the 
  salt 
  beds, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  Lehigh 
  shaft 
  597 
  feet. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  records 
  of 
  the 
  wells 
  in 
  the 
  Oatka 
  valley 
  the 
  figures 
  

   given 
  would 
  show 
  a 
  distance 
  varying 
  from 
  575 
  feet 
  at 
  Gaines- 
  

   ville 
  creek 
  and 
  577 
  feet 
  at 
  LeKoy 
  to 
  660 
  feet 
  at 
  the 
  Bradley 
  

   wells. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  west 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Genesee 
  valley 
  the 
  figures 
  range 
  

   between 
  57 
  ' 
  feet 
  for 
  the 
  well 
  at 
  York 
  to 
  640 
  feet 
  in 
  the 
  Phoenix 
  

   well. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Lakeville 
  well, 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  record, 
  it 
  was 
  470 
  feet 
  ; 
  

   in 
  Townsend's 
  well, 
  north 
  of 
  Livonia 
  station, 
  490 
  feet; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   test 
  well 
  near 
  the 
  shaft, 
  503 
  feet. 
  

  

  From 
  this 
  it 
  might 
  be 
  thought 
  that 
  the 
  Livonia 
  beds 
  are 
  not 
  

   continuous 
  with 
  those 
  further 
  west, 
  but 
  high 
  in 
  the 
  strata 
  and 
  

   local, 
  but 
  the 
  test 
  well 
  which 
  was 
  put 
  down 
  4 
  00 
  yards 
  north 
  of 
  

   the 
  Livonia 
  shaft, 
  was 
  sunk 
  through 
  the 
  two 
  salt 
  beds 
  to 
  a 
  depth 
  

   of 
  675 
  feet 
  below 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  Corniferous 
  and 
  114 
  feet 
  below 
  

   the 
  second 
  salt 
  bed 
  and 
  no 
  other 
  beds 
  were 
  found. 
  The 
  rock 
  

   below 
  the 
  second 
  salt 
  bed 
  was 
  all 
  soft 
  shale. 
  

  

  Although 
  it 
  is 
  more 
  than 
  probable 
  that 
  the 
  figures 
  in 
  the 
  well 
  

   records, 
  excepting 
  the 
  total 
  depth 
  of 
  the 
  wells, 
  are 
  in 
  most 
  cases 
  

   approximations 
  and 
  not 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  accurate 
  measurements, 
  and 
  

   therefore 
  are 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  implicitly 
  relied 
  on 
  to 
  show 
  the 
  condition 
  

   of 
  the 
  upper 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  salt 
  beds, 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  very 
  

   uneven 
  and 
  broken 
  however 
  and 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  conformable 
  for 
  any 
  

   distance 
  with 
  the 
  overlying 
  rock 
  strata 
  is 
  shown 
  in 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  

   mines. 
  

  

  The 
  line 
  of 
  contact 
  between 
  the 
  rock 
  and 
  the 
  salt 
  is 
  generally 
  

   well 
  defined, 
  but 
  full 
  of 
  curvatures, 
  some 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  very 
  abrupt. 
  

  

  