Show 231 ted Here it lay as nature had left it and could be had for the taking This method soon took the place of boiling and many early accounts mention this practice All accounts make special mention of the purity and extreme whiteness of the salt Many suitable locations for salt works are located around the lake As early as 1860 the idea of building artificial This was a evaporation ponds was conceived relatively simple task on the flat plains just a few inches A very low bank of dirt could above the water level easily be constructed and hundreds of acres of settling and evapora- tion ponds created Water could enclosure by use of lake shore pumps Typical of the early Soon salt easily be lifted into the many stilt works dotted the works was the one constructed at Syracuse in the early 1880 3 Originally George Payne in 1880 this enterprise vas bought and operated built by Galbraith who developed it into a thriving industry Mr Galbraith soon had 90 acres of salt ponds that produced as much as 20000 tons of salt a year Water vas supplied to the ponds constructed on the flats southwest of Syracuse by three steam engines Fuel for these by William W 11 Oliver Diary” II 57 B Huntington ’’Oliver B Huntington's |