The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-02
A Question for the Salt Manufacturers,
IEroia the Sxra Standax

STANDARD, 81
Why Ia not the market Of New York city supplied
with Onondaga salt2 This question is OF peculiar
significance O. tho present time when there Il said
to be on hand surplus Of some two hundred th0H-
supply Of the customary markets, diminissed q
tLey have been BY the increased prices Of the Last
three years.
b fese, ence to the New York prices current II
the cargo 81 from 81 SO to 81 rs per sack Of four
bushels, or 224 lbe. At the same rates Q cargo Of
Onondaga fine salt would bring from 81 SO to 81 10
per Dbl. Of five bushels, or $50 lbs. The minimum
Ing Company for the current year is 81 30 per bb;
~ which price is not doubted they would gladly
dispose Of the two hundred thousand barrels sur
p'ue.
Now, Why does no, 30 ne Ghrewd specuIator buy
ap this salt ct the ompauy price," send IL 10 New
York city, (Which he could do 1t freight of some
rs or so cents per brre' and there sell it at the
highest market plice for fine salt, 81 10 even q
the lowest market price, 81 49, realizing at yhis
figure very hands me pTcfit, not less than % sus
Ter barren Is there any obstacle in tue way OF such
transaction?
Surely no one will pretend that the OnoadAva fine
pool OF the Ashton brand" which brings By tho
quantity 81 rs per sack in New York.
The waters Of the ocean and Of all natural brine
springs contain in solution With the sslt other sub
s.anots, usually called impurities, and which must
be separate from The salt in the process of manu-
facture. The difficulty OF sffecting this separate "A
is substantially the same in all natural brines ami
the best process Of manufacture Is that by which
tie separation is made most fully and with the
greatest facility.
For the attainment Of this end the Onondags
msnufa tories have an important aid, not enjoyed
by any others. allude, OF course, to the guardian
care, cont oil and scrutiny Of the State over the
entire process and its product. This wise govern.
nertal supervision and control has been exer ned
tor half century; and il would be strange inc sd,
II under its salutary influence, the manufacture had
" la nyt sSf
fecsion, and the product TO degree Of putty and
excellence unknown in other establishments which
have been left to end for their success solely on
tie varying and uncertain impulses OF individual
interest, eJpfise and skill. Not only has the pro
Gees q nam iscture been regulated down 70 its
minutest details, by the collective wisdom Of the
Safe, but tie putty Of the product when brought
to market, has geen positively decreed aud fore
By section l03 Of title 10 Il chapter of the FIRST
part OF the Revised Statutes, Il 10 enacted that
the superintendent shall not paas any salt ~ good
unless he saau find it to be we'll made, free from
dirt filth and stones and sdmixtures Of lime, or Of
the 1Hshes OF wood, and Of any other substance
which Is INJURIOUS 70 salt ully drained from pickle
the bitaerns properly extracted therefrom, and
mi 'a :: directed BY sAi. se and BY the
Here Ia the mandate of the sover eign people of
The State Of New York, excluding from market Gil
Onondags salt not of the best quality. Has any
one the hsrdihood TO question its eficscy7 trust
not. no express doubt on that point would be =
reflection upon the fidelity Of the respectable public
functicnarss entrusted with tho execution OF this
mandate This process Of reasoning plainly proves
that the Onondsea salt ought to be, must be- and IL
the best in the world. This fact being established,
1t follows that II would now bring in the New York
market, at least 81 10 per barrel. The question
then rscurs, why is mot that market supplied With
is7
Having been forcibly struck. while reading The
above quoted section Of the Revised Statutes win
tne remarkable wisdom and propriety OF the last
clause Of that section cannot forbosr IN allusaon
70 II, although the matter Is somewhat foreign TO
the purpose OF this communication. Nothing Ger.
tamiy could be more clear than that no salt, how
lowed TO DO sent TO market, which had not been
mat ufsctursd as directed by title 10, &C, and by
The rules and regulations Of the superinte ndenf.
me salt might be entirely pure, but unleFs the
purify nad been attained In the particular name
preecdbed, IL would net 10 orthodox.