Luther — Geology of the Salt District. 



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All of the wells mentioned thus far have been referred to on account of 

 their location, or the date of the discovery of rock salt in them. 



Besides these, many others have been put down and plants for the 

 manufacture of salt have been erected at Le Roy, Genesee county, by the 

 Le Roy Salt Company ; Pavilion, Genesee county, by the Pavilion Salt 

 Company; Pearl Creek, Wyoming county, by the Pearl Creek Salt Company; 

 Wyoming, Wyoming county, by the Globe Salt Company; Middlebury, 

 Wyoming county, by the Pioneer Salt Company ; Saltvale, Wyoming county, 

 by the Miller Salt Company and the Crystal Salt Company : Warsaw, 

 Wyoming county, by the Warsaw Salt Company, the Standard Salt Com- 

 pany, the Gouinlock Salt Company, the Hawley Salt Company, the Empire 

 Salt Company and the Bradley Salt Company; Bock Glen, Wyoming 

 county, by the Kerr Salt Company ; Silver Springs, Wyoming county, 

 by the Duncan Salt Company; Castile, Wyoming county, by the Castile 

 Salt Company; Perry Wyoming county, by the Perry Salt Company. Also 

 at York, Livingston county, by the York Salt Company; Fowlerville, Liv- 

 ingston county, by the Fowlerville Salt Company; Piffard, Livingston 

 county, by the Genesee Salt Company and the Livingston Salt Company; 

 Cuylerville, Livingston county, by the Leicester Salt Company ; Mt. Morris, 

 Livingston county, by the Phoenix Salt Company, the Lackawanna Salt 

 Company and the Royal Salt Company ; Lakeville, Livingston county, by 

 the Conesus Lake Salt Company. 



The records of nearly all of these wells have been published by Mr. 

 Bishop in the report of the State Geologist for 1885, and by Dr. Englehardt 

 in the reports of the superintendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs for 1884 

 and 1888. 



Five shafts have also been sunk to the salt bed ; two at Retsof, 

 Livingston county, by the Retsof Mining Company ; one at Greigsville, 

 Livingston county, by the Greigsville Mining Company ; one, two and a 

 half miles south of LeRoy, Genesee county, by the Lehigh Mining Com- 

 pany and one at Livonia, Livingston count}', by the Livonia Salt Mining 

 Company. 



A detailed report with diagrams showing the rocks passed through in 

 sinking these shafts was published by the writer in 1891.* 



In 1885, a test well was sunk at Ithaca, to the depth of 3185 feet and 

 a careful record -was made under the direction of the geological department of 



• Thirteenth Annual Report of the State Geologist for the year 1893, vol. I, Geology, Report on Geology of the Livonia 

 Gait Shaft, pp. 25-180, J894. 



