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The other shales of this region, the Camillus, the Marcellus and 

 the Cardiff, have possibilities as a source of material for the manu- 

 facture of brick and tile, but as yet none of them have been 

 utilized. 



SOILS 



The soils of the Syracuse area were mapped and described by 

 the United States Department of Agriculture in 1903. 1 This report 

 shows thirteen kinds or classes of soils distributed over the area, 

 as follows : 



ACRES 



Miami stony loam 78 464 



Miami silt loam 41 536 



Miami gravelly loam . 39 424 



Miami tine sandy loam 19 968 



Miami fine sand 14 528 



Miami loam 9 728 



Alloway clay 24 832 



Muck 16 960 



Swamp 12 480 



Penn clay 3 840 



Alton stony loam 3 712 



Made land 576 



Warners, loam 12S 



The soil map referred to is twice the size of the map accom- 

 panying this report. It includes the area of both the Syracuse and 

 Baldwinsville quadrangles of the United State topographic atlas. 



The agricultural interests of the area are somewhat varied as 

 are the soils. The dairy interests probably stand first in import- 

 ance; truck gardening and fruit raising are both important. The 

 rather steady growth of the manufacturing interests in and near 

 the city increases the farming industry by furnishing better home 

 markets. 



STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY 



The rocks of the Syracuse area are sediments formed in the 

 Paleozoic sea, the shore of which was to the north and east. In 

 the uplift of the area above sea level there was a greater elevation 

 of the old landward side than of the new sea bottom areas which 

 caused a tilting or inclination of the strata toward the south and 

 west. There were probably several periods of uplift and depres- 

 sion, the algebraic sum of which is the present position of the rock 



1 Soil Survey of the Syracuse Area, by Bonsteel, Carter and Ayres. Field 

 Operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1903, published in 1904. 



