Luther — Geology of the Salt District. 



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The Tully limestone is thirty feet thick at Ithaca and fifteen feet at 

 Ludlowville. 



These conditions indicate an elevation of the salt bed, which was reached 

 at 2244 feet below the surface in the Ithaca well, to about 1500 feet below 



Fignre 1. The flexure near the south end of Cayuga lake. 



the surface of the lake on the apex of the flexure near the mouth of Salmon 

 creek. 



In 1895 the Ithaca Salt Company, Hon. L. II. Humphrey, Pres., had a 

 well drilled to the salt in the city of Ithaca one and one-fourth miles north of 

 the test well before referred to, and immediately began the erection of a plant 

 for the manufacture of fine salt. The plant was completed and a second well 

 put down in 1896. Grainers and open pans are used and the works have a 

 capacity of 800 bbls. per day. The works are located between the tracks of 

 the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and the Lehigh Valley railroads, on 

 the low grounds in the north part of the city and near the head of the lake. 

 The surface level at the mouth of the wells is 386 feet. 



