This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: wshecht1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.tompkins/5051.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The oreintation of the lantern slide is fine as it illustrates the salt evaporation vats with the valves uptright as they should be. The brine well for the rememington salt works was across the trolley track from the salt plant-there is a picture of the well head in the Ithaca wegmans grocery store by the bath rooms. The remington folks used a coal stoker boiler with a pot retort as my fatherinlaw described it to create steam to evaporate the salt for resale. Bill I am 99% positive this is a photograph of the operating floor of the "Remington salt works on east shore drive. across from the east shore sailing docks. My father-in-laws father worked there until they went bankrupt during the depression. The John C. Lowery Company now occupies the Remington Salt works building The International salt works was in Myers, New York and unfortunately there is no trace of it now due to the employee parking lots being covered over with soil and made into park land-little do they know the size of the cavity below their feet-hell when we wanted to mine north they could not guarantee its actual size when they mined under it as all the well heads were covered over and obtaining borehole images was out of the question-another ticking manmade geological time bomb just like the brine pools at Watkins Glen on the southern and western shore-not to discount the possible failure of the salt brine cavity being used by nyseg for compressed natural gas. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.