Salt of the earth: Road salt miners chip away at winter need

HAMPTON CORNERS, N.Y. — Deep below upstate New York’s farm country, workers in ghostly tunnels are praying for snow. Fiercer winters mean better business, longer hours and fatter paychecks at what’s billed as the nation’s most productive salt mine, which ships trainloads of snow-melting road salt to municipalities across the Northeast. And when the snow [...]