New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-20

SIC 900
There are Salt lakes in the United States Terri
lores-One in the sOuth- westerly part of Texas and
one or more in Utah. where Salt Of good quality is
found in great abundance.
Nearly all of the Salt manufactured in the United
States is made by boiling, excepting what is made In
Massachusetts, Florida and the Solar Works at Onon-
Iaea.
EThe amount ofsalt manufactured at the Solar Works
sf OnOndaga in 1856, 1881 bushels. The
HmoDpt of salt manufactured in kettles i'll On0ndaga
In 1856. was 5,257 ,4l9 bushels.
When the works tat Onondaga) are generally run
ring they require 1900 600 gallons OF brine daily, ana
Abe supply Is not less theh %VVV,VOo ganos PSr uay
FIR six months.
The annual report of V. w. Smith, esq, the State
Superintendent Of the OnOndaga Salt Springs which
4 herewith hand you, furnishes valuable information
In regard 10 the manufacture Of salt the saline depos
Its within our State, and such other general nferma
zion pertaining to this necessary article OF animal sub
sstence to render it one Of the most accurate and
interesting public documents published in our country
The wells in the Nnglnan Salt Springs are about
900 feet deep. The wells at Pomeroy and West Co
lumbia are from 900 to ! 200 feet deep.
The estimated quantity Of foreign salt consumed IN
the United States and Territories is about 800, 600
bushels per annum.
The amount of sat consumed in the United States
flor various uses, is about 90 pounds to each nhab-
FAINT.
The consumption in France is estimated at q !
pounds in Great Britain at % pounds for each inhab
slant.
The cost of manufacturing salt By boiling in Onon
tlaga as per estimate during five consecutive year,
averages about 81 per barrel of $50 pounds.
The freight charged in our canals, on domestic SALT
In barrels of $50 pounds each frOm Onondaga to But
IaO 1913 miles, Is about 10 cents per barrel 0rer the
toll paid to the State which is mill on 900 pounds
per mile in the canals To Oswego - miles, the freight
j. about cents per barrel orer the toll.
The freight foreign and domestic salt from Alba
ny to Buffalo, 364 miles, is about - per tun of 1000
pounds over the toll. Freight from Albany to Oswe
60, about 2O9 miles, Is - per tan over toll. The
freight from New York City to OswegO and Buffalo,
via albany j. precisely the same though shipped
nj Albany, although / Is miles further.
The toll on foreign salt State Canals is malls
On coo pounds per mile.
The freight on a barrel of salt from Oswego to the
principal ports on Lake Erie average distance about
$50 miles, is IL cents per barrel. The freight to the
principal ports on Lake Michigan, distance a6ou
900 miles, is % cents per barrel. The freight from
ports on Lake Erie (say Cleveland and Toledo to the
Ohio River and Cincinnati is 50 cents per barrel
The freight from Chicago to the Mississippi River and
ST. Louis is 30 cents per barrel.
The minimum price of Salt at the Onondaga Works
In Si9 80 and 81 from 20 10 80 cents per barrel
in 1852 81 per barrel in 1853 81 II; in 1884, 81 %
in 1850, 81 80, and in 1856, 81 AZ per barrel.
The solar Salt costs about the same price to manu-
iacture ms boiled Salt.
The solar Salt weighs about 20 II to tile bushel
lmeasure The boiled Salt weighs about 50 10 10 the
bushel varying, however, according to the position OF
ibe kettles to weight considerably above and also
considerably below This standard.
The duty paid TO the State of New-Y0fk on Salt
manufactured at Onondaga is always reckoned on Do
10 inns being statute DuSDcl anu Covers lue tA-
peDse incurred by the State for pumping up the water
and delivering it to the premises of the manufacturers
A Salt block at Onondaga, of the largest size, is
mac of brick about l. TO 10 feet wide, four tn five
feet high, and forming two parallel arches, extending
the whole length of the block. Over, and within the
Top Of these arches, are placed cast iron ket
Hes holding about 20 to 20 gallons of brine, placed
close together in two rows the whole length of the
arches. a fire built in the mouth of the arches
passes under each kettle into chimney, built gener
ally so to $50 feet high averaging from 30 to 20 ke
tles in each block. a single block with one row of
kettles is about half of this width.
The quantity of Salt made in of these double
blocks in the year Say Of eight m0nths averages
L 10000 to -, 600 bushels of 50 10.
The cost of a bushe of Salt produced at kauawha
Z Is about Ia cents.
The price of freight on a sack; of Liverpool Salt
fVm New-Oreans 10 Lsusyine, averages about 81
cents per sack.
i good portion of the coarse hard Salt imported
into the United States from the most sOutsery islands
OF the West India group kiln dried ceansed, ground
very fine, aud put in small packages for culinary or
! dairy use. The amount of coarse and fine Sail I'M
ported into the United States from foreign countries
for the year ending June 30, 1856, was 10 400 SOL
4 bushels The amount of domestic Salt exported
during the year ending June 80, 1885, was 69S, i5S
bushels The amount Of foreign Salt exported during
/ ihe year ending June 80, 1856, was l26,43 bushels
1 Yours truly, SAMUEL H0TALlNG.