New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-20
Salt n, the Fair.

tn the Editors Of tie Tribune
In your notice in Wednesdays paper of the
Fossil Salt of Virginia you remark that the Table
Salt from that State is of superior whiteness TO
Western New-York Salt.
The COARSE SOLAR SALT, among the samples
exhibited, is from the Salt Fields of Messrs. Henry
Clifford s. Co. of Syracuse. This Salt exceeds in
the brilliancy and Wilderness of les crystals, and
equals in its antiseptc properties any Salt in the
world. 1t is about the weight per bushel as
Turks Island Salt, and is offered at 81 cents per
measured bushel, delivered a. the wharf in this
city by the boat load in bulk.
The fine Dairy Salt is from the works of Messrs
NJ A. Burnet g. Co of Syracuse, and is Solar
Salt ground and the fine Table is from the works
Of MIR. S. w. Caldwell Of Syracuse, both oil these
samples will compare in quality with any foreign
Salt brought to market.
The sample of Common Fine Salt is from the
works of Mr.. w. X. Blair. This Salt will an
swer ali the purposes Of Common Liverpool Salt
1t can be sold q, our wharves by the cargo at IA
cents per bushel
Three millions three hundred and forty thousand
and sixty-nine bushels were made last year at the
Onondaga Salines.
The Government Of this State collects duty Of
six cents on.every bushels of Sc ID. Salt made at
the Onondaga Salnes, and this money has hereto
fore been appropriated to pay for making the
great Erie Canal.
The saline property in the waters at Syracuse,
is no doubt derived from an immersed bed of Fossil
Salt in that immediate locality
Ten millions of bushels of Salt can be made an
nually at the Onondaga Salines, if market could
be found for it.
The Fossil Salt from Virginia is from the mine
in Washington County, between the Zurich Noun
tain and the Blue Ridge.-It lies 900 feet below
the surface and is $50 feet in thickness. The Salt
made from this mine is beautifulartice, and is as
pure as any salt in the world
Virginia has, undoubtedly, the richest and the
largest stores Of Minerals of any State in the I'm
ion.
The quantity of Salt manufactured in the United
States in 1910 was equal TO the quantity imported
from abroad, and both together amounted to about
fourteen millions Of bushes-being to each in
hab;nnt, man, woman, and child, about seven
eights Of bushel EACH The duty collected on
Salt imported in l040 was about proportion OF
four cents to every inhabtant in the United States
The watts for the Solar Salt Fields cost $1,000
per acre, and one will produce 1000 bushels
coarse Salt per annum-one man can attend two
acres.
The common Fine Salt is made in Iron kettles,
the water is evaporated by the heat of fire made OF
wood. One load of Wood will boil 40 bushels Of
Salt. This Salt has been sold as low as 4 cents
per bushel at the Salines the present Summer,
which is 81 60 for 40 bushcs-a small price for
cord of Wood without counting the wear Of ket-
ties and labor in boiling, The cutting and hauling
of the Wood is about equal to the price of the
land-thus the price of the Salt is the wages OF
labor. Labor is the source of Weath; there
fore, INDUSTRY SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED. IF
citizens are forced to be idle BY the want OF Pro
lection our Foreign Exchanges will advance against
us, for citizens will have little of paying
for foreign goods if they compelled to be idle,
have already trespassea largely your columns
and therefore conclude.
Yours respectfully, E. MERRIAM