Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1882 — A Wonderful Salt Vein. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Salt Vein.

A very curious thing is a salt quarry, discovered in Wyoming county, south of Rochester, N. Y., near Gainesville. They were boring for oil, and struck a ledge twelve sett thick of pure crystal salt. It lies in the ground like a gigantic cake of ice, and can be taken out so clear and transparent that you can see through the cakes as if they were pure glass. It will be much cheaper to quarryout this salt and grind it up than it is to boil down the Syracuse, Saginaw or Turk’s Island salt. The mine is a source of infinite wealth to Wyoming coupty, and one of the geological curiosities of the world.