Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1857-06-25


CoiuTbla1 ....................... 1,00O, 600
In the state of Illinois. Observation-Disclosures. so 600
In the state OF Michigan .............. 10000
In the State OF Texas. ................ 10000
In the state of Florida. Observation-Disclosures. 100 900
Total Observation-Disclosures. ~, 376 900
There are Salt lakes in the United States Ter
r'torIes-one in the south-westerly part of Texas
and one more in Utah, where Salt of good
quality is found in great abundance.
Nearly all Of the Salt manufactured in the Uni
ted States is made by boiling. excepting what is
made in Massachusetts, Florida and the Solar
orks at Onondaga.
The amount of salt manufactured at the Solar
w orks of Onondaga in 1856. was 100 .39l bush
els. The amount of salt manufactu red in kettles
IN On"ndaga in 1856 was 5,257 ,4l9 bushels.
When the works lat Onondaga] are generally
running. they require 100000 gallons of brine
dairy, and the supply is not less than 1000 900
gallons per day for six months
The annual report OF w. w. Smith, ESQ., the
superintendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs,
which herewith and YOU furnishes valuable in
formation IN regard to The manufacture of salt. the
saline deposits within our state, and such other
general information pertaining to this necessary
article of animal subsistence as to render it one
ct the most accurate and interesting public docu-
men,s published in our country.
The wells in the Virginia Salt Springs are
about 900 feet deep. The wells at Pomeroy and
West Columbia are from l 900 10 |, 200 feet deep
The estimated quantity of foreign salt consumed
in the United States and Territories is about
l3,500,OOO bushels per annum.
Tie amount of sal, consumed in the United
States for various USES is about 60 pounds to
each inl.abitant.
The consumption in France is estimated at
81 l-2 pounds; in Great Britain at 25 pounds for
each inhsbitant.
The cost of manufacturing salt by boiling in
Onondaga, as per estimate, during FIVE consecu-
tive years, averages about 81 per Dbl. of $50 lbs
The freight charged in our canals on dome site
salt, in barrels Of $50 pounds each. from Ononda-
ga to Buffalo, lOS miles, is about Is cents per bar
rel orer the Toll paid to the state. which is mill
on 900 pounds per mile in the canals. To Os-
wego, IS miles, the freight is about cents per
barrel orer the toll
The freight on foreign and domestic salt from
Albany TO Buffalo, 1854 miles, is about So per tun
lot 1000 pounds over the toll. Freight from
Albany to Oswego, about 200 miles, is about So
per ton toll. The freight fom New York
City TO Oswego and Buffalo, via Albany, is pre-
cisely the same as though shipped at Albany, al
though l4S miles further.
The toll on foreign salt on our state canals is
mills on 1000 pounds per mile.
The freight on barrel of salt from Oswego to
the principal ports on Lake Erie average dist
ance about $50 mies] is la cents per barrel.
The freight to the principal ports on Lake Mich.
gan, distance about 1000 miles, is 25 cents per
barrel. The freight from ports on Lake Erie
lsay Cleveland and Toledo to the Ohio River and
Cincinnati is SO cents per barrel. The freight
from Chicago to the Mississippi, River and ST.
Louis is SO cents per barrel,
The minimum price of salt at the Onondaga
Works in lS49, 80 and 81 was from 20 to 80
cents per barrel in 1852. ST. per barrel; in 1853,
81 10; in 1854, 81 IS; in 1855, 81 80, and in !
1856, 81 40 per barrel
The solar salt costs about the same price to
as boiled salt.
The solar salt weighs about 10 70 to the BUSH
ell [measure]. The boiled salt weighs about
Sc ID. to the bushel. varyrs, however. according
to the position Of the ketes. to weg ht consider
ably above and also considerably below this stand
ard
The duty paid to the state of New York on salt
at Onondaga is always reckoned on
Sc h. This being the statute bushel] and covers
the expense incurred by the state for pumping up
lhe water and delivering it to the premises of the
A salt block at Onondaga. of the largest size is
made Of brick about IL to Is feet wide, four to
i've feet high, and forming two parallel arches.
extending the whole length of The block. Over,
common cast iron kettles holding about so to 10
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 centrally so to $50 feet
high, averaging from so 10 10 kettles in each
block. A single block with one row of kettles is
about half of tn width.
The quantity of salt made in one of these
Iouble row of blocks in the year [say of eight
nonthsl averages 10000 to $4,000 bushels Of
Sc ID.
The cost of bushel Of salt produced at Kan
,wha is about II l-2 cents.
The price of freight on sack of Liverpool
salt, from New Orleans to Louisville, averages
about IS cents per sack.
good portion of the coarse hard salt imported
INTO the United States from the most southerly
Stands of the West India group, is kiln dried.
.Ieansed, ground very fine, and put in small packa
yes for culinary or dairy use. The amount Of
coarse and fine salt imported into the United
States from foreign countries for the year ending
June 80. 1856 was l5.4O5.s64 bushels. The
amount Of domestic salt exported during the year
,ndng June 30, 1856, was 698.459 bushels.
The amount Of foreign salt exported during the
rear ending June 80, was l26.l27 bushels.
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