The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-10-31
N ew York Salt.

number Of the Syracuse Journal containing the fol.
lowing notice Of great improvement in the manu-.
facure Of salt from the saline waters of that region
We hardly remember to have heard of any improve.
ment in the arts, which, at single step, makes SO
great an advance in the production of any staple ni-
cie' A method Of manufacture, which at once in
ereases the product from thirty forty per cent be-
SIDES improving the quality, and afordng very great
collateral powers and advantages, is certainly work
Of genius.
We cannot help claiming this piece of improve
ment as Legitimate result Of the Protective system.
Without protection by impost on :he foreign article
the manufacture ofsa would hardly have been push
ell in this country beyond limited extent and might
have excited comparatively little interest. But when
encouragement is given to the native production the
wits Of capitalists and inventors are also slim
uated TO devise new and improved methods of man.
uactnre by which, ultimately, the may doubtless
be reduced to point as low, any for which the
foreign product could be afforded without duty
This is but one Of many similar instances under the
Tariff system, and all Of them, are not only more
gratifying than the friends of this system expected
but are very complete refuia,ion of much that is
said against it,
IMPORTANT DISCOV ERYAND IMPROVE
MENTlN SALT MAKING.
1t has long been prevalent opinion among intslIi-
gent men acquainted with the manufacture of sa ,bat
mode of economising the fuel used in the business
was practicable, but all attempts to discover it, and
they have been frequent and expensive have hereto
fore mostly or wholly failed The quantity of wood
consumed on the Reservation is estimated at one
thousand cords, during the business season. per day.
and some twelve fifteen hundred acres Of land sta.
stripped of their ancient Forests per annum, to sup
ply the Onondsga Salt Works BY the ordinary pro-
cess OF evaporation, enormous waste Of heat has
evidently attended the operation. How 10 apply tho
heat and steam thus lost to greater surface or 10
other purposes, has been the subject of anxious in
quiry and experiment for thirty years. Hitherto neur-
" every effort 10 solve the interesting problem has re-
suited like al! unsuccessful inventions the sacr
flee ofmoney and the attachment of rdicue. The
derivation of steam power, object in view, or the
husbandry ofall the heat evolved from the mighty
mass ofcombustion. was still failure, and with the
i'll results Of each successive trial, the impression up-
on the minds of the majority, that there was bat one
certain mode Of making salt, and that was to boil
down the water in potash kettle, as had been prac-
Used from the beginning, grew stronger and stronger.
Undismayed by the disastrous results Former at
temps 10 improve the system, either by facilitating
the process or rendering it secondary to other opera
tons, Messrs. Jno' Ives, Thomas Spencer and r.
W. Motion. Of this village, have during the passed
summer, put up an establishment that combines the
principles and realizes the advantages as the most
who have examined it believe, long the subject Of
research. The works Of these gentlemen contain 81
kettles arranged in the usual manner. Instead of
maintaining their fires Immediately beneath the first
kettles, as in the old Practice they have furnace
and pair ste m boilers in front of the arches with
which they drive powerful saw MILL whilst the es-
cape steam is conducted into the cisterns for set
ting brine, which it boats and reduces to satura,ion
ut which stage in the evaporatng process the largest
mass ofimPuri'ics preciptated, and the brine is
drawn into tho kettles at high temperature ready
for immediate capitalization. The new works have |
been in operation three four weeks and the guam
ty of salt produced is estimated at thirty or forty
per cent. more than is obtained by the common |
method, whilst the steam powe created is sufficient
o run cotton or wooden factory. The salt is like
wise handsomer and purer article.
1t is steam po,oer which has so long been deemed
| desideratum. The entire success of the new pan
q generally considered certain. If this expectation
hould not be disappointed we possess that which
must ultimately render the Salt Springs Reservation
he seat ofthe greatest manufacturing interest in the
,ountry.
In the same paper, find also an article from the
Albany Daily Advertiser, in which gratifying sur
'rlse is expressed that the New York Salt has made
Is way far alorg the TO Baltimore, where
is quoted at ST. l2i PER barrel. It is said by the
Albany paper, that during the present of canal
navigation, the quantity of Now York salt sent on
he Western Railroad towards Boston has averaged
ot far from three hundred barrels per week.
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