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ECONOMICAL MINERALOGY. 
Carbonate of lime,... 0.18 
Sulphate of lime,. 5.25 
Chloride of calcium, . 1.40 
Chloride of magnesium,. 1.00 
Chloride of sodium, or common salt,. 93.35 
Oxide of iron, with a minute portion of silica and carbonate of lime,. 0.02 
Carbonic acid, holding in solution the carbonate of lime and oxide of iron, 0.08 
Water, with a trace of organic matter,.. 898.72 
This brine, therefore, contains 700 grains of dry chloride of sodium in a wine pint; 5600 
grains or 0.80 pound in a gallon ; and it requires nearly seventy gallons for a bushel of salt. 
The strength of the Geddes brine, when compared to this, is about as ten to seven; of the 
Liverpool brine, as ten to six and a half. 
By an act of the Legislature, passed in 1840, an appropriation was made for the purpose 
of procuring, if possible, a supply of brine of sufficient strength to be advantageously used 
in the manufacture of salt. A shaft was sunk to the depth of two hundred feet, which opened 
into a vein of brine much stronger than any heretofore procured in this vicinity. The specific 
gravity of this brine is 1.09767 ; and 1000 parts of it contain 129.33 parts of dry solid mat¬ 
ter, or 12.93 in 100 parts of brine. This is within one per cent, of the quantity contained 
in some of the brines which have been worked in Onondaga county ; a fact which would seem 
to warrant further expenditures, and to strengthen the expectations which have been enter¬ 
tained in regard to the establishment of the manufacture of salt at Montezuma. 
TABLE 
Showing the composition of various brines from Onondaga <$■ Cayuga Counties, in 1000 parts. 
i. ii. hi. iv. y. vi. vii. viii. 
Carbonic acid,.... 
Oxide of iron and silica, with a trace of ) 
carbonate of lime,._.5 
Carbonate of lime,... 
Sulphate of lime,. 
Chloride of magnesium, ... 
Chloride of calcium, . 
Chloride of sodium, or pure salt,. 
Water, with a trace of organic matter, etc... 
0.06 
0.04 
0.10 
4.93 
0.79 
2.03 
130.66 
861.39 
0.07 
0.02 
0.14 
5.69 
0.46 
0.83 
132.39 
860.40 
0.09 
0.04 
0.17 
4.72 
0.51 
1.04 
140.02 
853.41 
0.07 
0.03 
0.13 
4.04 
0.77 
1.72 
142.85 
850.39 
' 
l 8.50 
173.50 
818.00 
0.08 
0.02 
0.18 
5.25 
1.00 
1.40 
93.35 
898.72 
0.02 
4.31 
0.30 
1.53 
73.72 
920.12 
870.67 
Total amount of solid matter in 1000 grains ) 
of brine, .j 
138.55 
139.53 
146.50 
149.54 
.182.00 
101.20 
79.88 
129.33 
No. I. From the well at Geddes. Page 107. No. V. From the new well at Syracuse. Page 106. 
II. From the well at Syracuse. Page 106. VI. From a well at Montezuma. Page 109. 
III. From the old well at Salina. Page 105. VII. From the old deep well at Montezuma. Page 108. 
IV. From the well at Liverpool. Page 107. VIII. From a new well (opened 1840) atMontezuma. P. 110. 
