Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-20
The Salines of.western New York and 8 nth
western Vii sinia.


sALr.-As was predicted some six months ago
| the quantity Of snlt manufactured The pfesen-
season n, the Onondaga Salt Works. in New
York will reach q. 900 900 bushels. If other sal,
works in this country furnish in proportion, the
! partinl failure Of the crop in the West India j.
! lands will net materially affect the supplies in
! market. Tho average annual product ct solar
| aud fine salt is about 5.j0o0OO bushels. showing
/ an excess the present season "f 5O0,00O. The
average price will be about II 40 per barrel.nak-
| ing the whole crop worth si,610000. Nat. Int.
1t is admitted by all persons at all conyersant
| with the subject. that snlt can he manufactured
ut the salines Of Smythe county TO my extent
that the article can be yended. and al a cost less
than il can be made for at any other locality in
the country, or than for which it can be imported
1t may he assed. "What, then. is the reason.
why larger quantity than 300, 900 bushels. 1.-THE
present prodGct.) il not producedl' The answer
is, because the cost of transit forbds it. In 9th
er words no salt has been produced than
was required by the sparce population Of Eastern
and Middle Tennessee, Western North Carolina,
Northern Alabama, and the counties of $. w.
Virginia Bot. as in New York. So will il soon
bein Virginia Our great salt mines will be APP
preached by a line Of railway. nffnrding cheap
transit for their products to millions instead ofa
few hundred thousand of the people of the
country.
Before cheap transit wns given to the Ononda
ga salt, the production there not greater than
with us npw The same causes will produce like
effects. Especially may we so anticipate in this
instance. rs we have the advantage in every ele-
ment of the cost of production: richer brine,
cheaper fuel, and cheaper labor But, better than
all the quality Of the salt itself is admitted 10 he
superior 10 any made on the continent i'm
ported from abroad.
The six million bushels Of salt produced at
Onondaga, il one aud one half millions Of tons Of
two thousand pounds.
Every ton If salt from the Smyhe county
Salinrs must be transported ON the Virginia n
Tennessee railroad; yet We will not claim from
this great tonnage anything like what we conf
IDENTITY believe within u very short time, be realiz
ed We will make our estimates upon only one
hundred and fifty thousand TONS. distributed a. fol-
lows: fifty thou.anI t. pass cnstwar1ly over
one hundred miles of the road; and one hundred
thousand, wcstwardly, over ihrty-"ight miles ::
thai is. the distance ram the Snlncs 10 the State
line. Upon this tonnage we place charge Of
30 cts. per ton per mile.
Tho receipts from this it,m oi tonnage willthcn
stand thus
$4,000 tons eastwardly, at 80. $500. $4,000
100, 900 toRs westwardly. at Sl33.... l3300)
Aggregate receipts. S:}0s 900
Deduct for cost Of transportation $4,000
Nei income, ..-.-........-. l5l,oOo
Should any one object to this estimate upon
the ground thai the demand for the salt will not
be created Immediately upon the completion
of the road and its connection, with the great
chain Of railways penetrating all the Southern
aud Southwestern States. We may canccde all
that can rea.ona' " be- asked on this gronnd
nnd still the same practical result. 50 far rs the
income OF the road !, concerned, may be att lined
for. be it recollected thu the great gypsum quar-
ries ARE penetrated ~ the Saltwerk branches of
our raal, and 10 reach the former that we have to
excayate our roads through the latter. In the mex
haustihle quantity of this nov indispensable
agent Of the agrcuturalist, we have at hand on
the very way side of the ,oad now waiting the
arrival af the locomotive, Tonnage enough Ia sup
ply any deficiency that may, for few years, ex
ist in the estimated salt tonnage. 1t would there
fore seem beyond all pernlvent1re that the earn
ings of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad must
be, as soon as ii is flushed, augmented greatly
beyond the worry moderate estimates of President
Mcdaniel, set forty in his last annual report
Tia, such will be the result, we entertain not
the least doubt; and hence we are as hopeful as
ever in all that relates to the great enterprise Of
ntr CITY The true friends uf the Ron,3 too mn 81
not allow untoward circumstances to disturb their
equanimity, but remember that the steadfast in
iuith are assured of Ultimate reward.