The McCune Salt Works.

The picture represents the McCune Salt Works at McCuneville. When the Straitsville branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was built to Shawnee Mr. McCune of Newark, erected a considerable plant for the manufacture of salt. He expended about $40,000 in boring wells and getting improved ma- chinery. A town sprang up and it gave every evidence of permanency. But the plant was bought by a "trust' 115

and it shut down never to operate again. Nothing remains of these works and their past existence is like the shadow of a dream. 116

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