Show Indians Made Mad Salt jY Ry RyThe salt Bait The Delaware ale Indians made mad from brIne springs In New York state and sold it to settlers as early as 1670 making probably the first first- commercial i production of salt In this country The manufacture mam facture of or salt 1 b by y white people Inthe l In Inthe 1 the United States was begun near S Syracuse N. N Y about 1788 1758 Salt Is the most commonly used mineral in inthe I the world and no useful mineral except except ex ex- coal conI perhaps occurs In greater grenter abundance or Is more widely distributed In the United States |