Show 232 had to be hauled from Ogden In order to obtain fresh water for the boilers three artesian wells site of each engine were sunk one at the 12 1 1 r In the early stages of the industry in the ponds by the evaporating water was inside the ponds and later wheeled to the This soon proved to be too slow barrows salt deposited shoveled into piles banks in and horse-dra- wheelwn cars were constructed to bring the salt to solid ground Most of the salt obtained from this project as well as from others was shipped to Montana for use in fluxing ore at the Butte refineries It sold delivered at the nearest railroad for §600 per ton The salt was shipped in its coarse state since it did not have to be refined for this use the Galbraith industry developed the owner decided to refine some of the better salt Says C L Galbraith son of William W Galbraith Some of our purest salt was ground and sacked in three and five pound sacks The grinding and sacking where the old Syracuse resort was plant was located was because of this fine grade of salt later built It from Hobothat father changed the name of the location The reason for this was that at that ken to Syracuse As 12 Christopher L Galbraith of the Syracuse Salt Works" 2 13 Ibid 3 "Incidents in the History |