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Show Indians Made Salt. i The Delaware Indians made salt from brine springs in New York state I and sold it to settlers as early as 1CT0, : 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 17S8. Salt Is the most commonly used mineral in the world, and no useful mineral except ex-cept coal, perhaps, occurs in greater j abundance or is more widely distrib- i oted In the United States. 1 |