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Show Indians Made Salt. isL The Delowaro Indians mado salt 1H from brine oprlngs In New York state i and wild It to settlers as early ns 1C70, ' making probably the first commercial - production of milt In this country. The manufacture of salt by white people In ! the United States was beguil near U Syracuse, N. Y about 1788. Salt n tho most commonly used mineral' In is Iho world, and no useful mineral ex- ?H rept coal, perhaps, occurs In greater !,H ibundance or Is more widely illstrlb- H ated In the United States. B |