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I can't quite remember what we worked out in relation to the salt mines, but we did work out something in the code. We permitted it to go much longer than I thought wise, or than my colleagues thought wise, but we just couldn't find anything to do except stop the operation of the mine, which we felt was not in the public interest, though perhaps we should have. Fortunately we never had an accident due to that. They worked out finally in this deep mine a technique. I think it was the sinking of an iron shaft which was put down into the seam through the lake, sticking up above the lake, which could be used as an emergency exit. It was an extremely difficult engineering problem. It was very costly and very difficult.

A professor from Cornell is the one who worked out this problem. He was also doing some geological testing. I don't know what the results have been, but he indicated that there was a great underwater salt deposit all through the central part of the State of New York. It was his theory that that whole area had a deep salt bed way down somewhere and that it would some day all be mined. He had most radical ideas of draining the lakes. As a professor he saw no obstacles to draining the lakes. That was the natural thing to do. If you could have had a controlled economy with