The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-22


the greatest extent the kettles placed masonry
parallel lines, having from eight twenty each ine (of
course from sixteen to forty block under which there
separate passages for the heat with fire places arches
at one end, and fue chimney BOTH the
other end of the block The fuel is exclusively wood of
kind most common in the forests of this part of the country
such as beach, maple, elm, hemock bass wood, &c. of
which, the prices, for the last years, have been from
seyenyfve, to dollar and fifty per cord delivered
at the works.
In the boiling down of the saturation portion of
the impurities, suphate and carbonate of lime stained with
iron, deposited in ladies and taken out the euaporiSa-
ton of the brine is continued until but small quantity
mains when the salt which has been made and which is
FIRST beautifully white and of fine grain taken out
into baskets Drained and removed and the kettles again
filled with salt water and the operation repeated The
surface of the kettles becomes firmly ncrusted with
compound Of the earthly substances and SALT which require
frequent removal to prevent injury from overheatng and
cracking the metal
Next in extent, properly in productions are the
erecons adjoining the Erie canal for evaporation by solar
heat they of wood resting horizontally upon great
number of small posts driven into the ground according
the inequalities of the surface which they built
touching ii in places, and at height of ten feet in
others but the most convenient height between eighteen
and thry-sx inches from the ground Their width is egh-
teen and half feet depth from six to fifteen nches and
length from eighty to six hundred and forty feet and they
have roofs in divisions of sixteen feet EACH sustained by roll
ers which travel level supporters and moved and
off by the strength of The water from the
received first into the deepest va in which deposit
ted much of the iron coorng matter, which appears the
form of pece the temperature (at the wells
is SOY is increased by the action of the amos
phere From those it is passed. by of pipes, into
of less DEPTH exceeding six nches at the lower level
which remains, TILL by the evaporation and consequent
concentration of the brne and the precipitation of phae
and carbonate of lime, it sufficiently depuated for the
crystazaon of the SALT which will then begin appear
the surface The brne leaving behind the substances that
have been separated again drawn off into watts of level
still lower which kept clean, and in which the salt is
made with greater less rapidly, according TO the altitude
of the sum- the cearness of the atmosphere from clouds and
MOISTURE and the strength of the wind As the bne by the
formation of the in the last dmnishes and
of
five ches and should always the salt the
bottom further supplies drawn occasionally and they
are needed from the second graduation or tier.
The removal of the salt from the watts is without any regu
arty time quantity, and is dependent upon the
of the manufacturer, who sometimes leaves till
there accumulation of three four inches, takes it
when there barely enough to the bottom 1t is
shoveled into tubs holding about hundred pounds in
which it is drained for few minutes, and without further
drying, is conveyed in carts to the store-houses
II estimated that the solar establishments at Syracuse,
including the land necessary for the roofs and passages
py hundred and acres that the aggregate length of
the thirteen miles, and their superficial surface
million hundred and fifty thousand square feet, of which
the annual product about three thousand five hundred TONS
The works similar in their construction to the
blocks the kettles of which covered to the steam
produced in the boiling of the water to sauraton and BY
condensation its passage through metallic pipes immersed
in the Brine which is in deep wooden vas the heat applied
a second time to the equalization of the SALT
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