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Show Indians Made Salt. The Delaware Indians made salt from brine springs in New York state nnd sold It to settlers as early as 1GT0, making probably the first commercial production of salt In this country. The manufacture of salt by white people In the United States was begun near Syracuse. N. Y about 1TSS. Salt Is the most commonly used mineral in the world, nnd no useful mineral' except ex-cept coal, perhnps, occurs In greater bundanee or is more widely distributed distrib-uted In the United States. |