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  Forty-seventh 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  The 
  lower 
  bed 
  of 
  salt 
  is 
  fifteen 
  and 
  one-half 
  feet 
  thick 
  at 
  

   Livonia, 
  seven 
  feet 
  at 
  the 
  Lehigh 
  shaft 
  and 
  fifty-eight 
  feet 
  at 
  the 
  

   Ketsof 
  shaft. 
  It 
  was 
  not 
  reached 
  in 
  the 
  Greigsville 
  shaft. 
  It 
  is 
  

   all 
  " 
  mixed 
  salt," 
  and 
  in 
  quality 
  and 
  condition 
  is 
  like 
  the 
  upper 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  bed. 
  It 
  is 
  not 
  worked 
  in 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  mines. 
  

   The 
  total 
  thickness 
  of 
  the 
  rock 
  salt 
  beds, 
  including 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   calated 
  layers 
  of 
  rock, 
  is 
  fifty-seven 
  and 
  one-half 
  feet 
  at 
  the 
  

   Livonia, 
  110 
  feet 
  at 
  the 
  Retsof 
  and 
  thirty- 
  three 
  feet 
  at 
  the 
  

   Lehigh 
  shaft. 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  the 
  well 
  records, 
  the 
  thickness 
  is 
  seventy 
  to 
  

   seventy-five 
  feet 
  at 
  Lakeville, 
  twenty-five 
  , 
  feet 
  at 
  Caledonia, 
  

   seventy-eight 
  feet 
  at 
  York, 
  108 
  feet 
  at 
  the 
  Genesee 
  wells, 
  123 
  

   feet 
  at 
  the 
  Livingston, 
  118 
  feet 
  at 
  the 
  Lackawanna 
  and 
  128 
  feet 
  

   at 
  the 
  Royal 
  wells. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Oatka 
  district 
  *it 
  is 
  forty 
  feet 
  in 
  the 
  Junction 
  well, 
  

   eighty-five 
  feet 
  in 
  Moulton's, 
  seventy 
  feet 
  in 
  the 
  Pioneer, 
  sixty- 
  

   one 
  feet 
  in 
  the 
  Crystal, 
  eighty 
  -five 
  feet 
  at 
  Miller's, 
  fifty-seven 
  

   feet 
  at 
  the 
  Atlantic, 
  eighty- 
  six 
  feet 
  at 
  Warsaw, 
  sixty-eight 
  feet 
  

   in 
  Dr. 
  Gouinlock's, 
  forty-two 
  feet 
  in 
  Gouinlock 
  & 
  Humphrey's, 
  

   fifty-four 
  feet 
  in 
  the 
  Bradley, 
  ninety-six 
  feet 
  in 
  the 
  Kerr, 
  130 
  

   feet 
  in 
  Duncan's, 
  ninety 
  feet 
  in 
  the 
  Castile, 
  sixty- 
  four 
  feet 
  in 
  the 
  

   Gainesville 
  and 
  fifty-six 
  feet 
  in 
  the 
  Bliss 
  wells. 
  

  

  At 
  Perry 
  they 
  are 
  fifty-five 
  feet, 
  at 
  Dansville 
  sixty 
  feet, 
  and 
  at 
  

   Naples 
  sixty-three 
  feet 
  thick. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Donohue, 
  who 
  had 
  charge 
  of 
  drilling 
  Empire 
  well 
  No. 
  2, 
  

   informed 
  me 
  that 
  about 
  100 
  feet 
  above 
  the 
  main 
  salt 
  bed 
  he 
  

   found 
  a 
  three 
  inch 
  layer 
  of 
  salt, 
  and 
  in 
  sinking 
  well 
  No. 
  3, 
  some 
  

   distance 
  away, 
  found 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  depth 
  the 
  cavity 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  

   dissolution 
  of 
  the 
  salt, 
  showing 
  that 
  the 
  layer 
  was 
  of 
  some 
  extent. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  not 
  learned 
  of 
  any 
  other 
  layer 
  of 
  salt 
  that 
  does 
  not 
  

   appear 
  to 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  beds 
  described. 
  The 
  counties 
  of 
  Genesee, 
  

   Wyoming 
  and 
  Livingston 
  embrace 
  all 
  the 
  territory 
  overlying 
  that 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  salt 
  bed 
  of 
  the 
  Salina 
  group 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  

   developed 
  for 
  the 
  production 
  of 
  salt 
  for 
  commercial 
  purposes 
  in 
  

   Western 
  New 
  York, 
  but 
  the 
  deep 
  borings 
  at 
  Dansville, 
  Naples, 
  

   Dundee, 
  Watkins, 
  Ludlowville 
  and 
  Ithaca 
  have 
  demonstrated 
  the 
  

   continuity 
  of 
  the 
  beds; 
  and 
  the 
  Western 
  New 
  York 
  salt 
  fields 
  

   may 
  be 
  said 
  to 
  extend 
  to 
  Seneca 
  lake 
  on 
  the 
  east, 
  thus 
  including 
  

   Ontario 
  and 
  Yates 
  counties. 
  

  

  