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#409, This depicts the standard grades [of salt] produced at the mine. [Same picture as photo 396.]
#411, [Inserting dynamite into drilled hole.]
#412, [Mechanical loader loading newly-blasted salt into mine cars. Also see photo 419.]
#413, [100 pound sacks of salt on conveyor belt. Retsof Mining Company of New York]
#416, This picture shows the primary screens for the preparation of coarse salt. The few impurities present in the salt are picked out by the men shown in the foreground
#417, Rotary dump at Shaft Bottom for unloading mine cars
#419, Mechanical Loading: This is another of our major operations, that of mechanical loading. This machine displaces old hand methods and is another example of mechanization. [Different view of photo 412]
#420, Picture showing mechanism for loading bulk salt into box cars
#421, Close-up of one of the electric screens used for the preparation of salt
#422, [Loading 100 pound bags of salt into box car. Photo taken inside the box car. Retsof Mining Company. Same men as in photo 426]
#423, [Drilling holes for dynamite in rock face]
#424, [Conveyors in breaker building (?)]
#425, Showing a mine chamber, but picture is spoiled by lack of animation and uncertainty as to what it means. The picture would have been good had we placed one or two men in the background
#426, Picture showing typical method of loading bagged salt in box car. [Same two men as in photo 422; photo taken inside the box car. Retsof Mining Company of New York.]
#427, One of the belt conveyors in the mill building for transporting the salt from the electric screens to the storage bins
#450, [Brine tanks (?). Watkin's Glen.]
#456, [Girl at conveyor belt loading boxes of "Sterling" salt into cardboard shipping cartons.]
#457, [Girl operating carton filling and sealing machine with "Sterling" salt. Not the same location as photo 359.]
#458, [Man operating sewing machine to sew up filled 50 pound bags of "Perfection" salt.]
