Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-07-07


freight is about cents per barrel oper toll,
from Albany to Buffalo, 364 miles, is about
$3 per tun (of 1000 pounds) over the
toll. Freight from Albany to Oswego,
about 200 miles, is SO per tun over toll.
Freight from New York City to Oswego
and Buffalo, via Albany, is precisely the
same as though shipped at Albany, though
14S miles further On foreign salt on, our
state canals, the toll is mills on 1000
pounds per mile. Freight on barrel of
salt from Oswego to the principal ports on
Lake Erie (average distance about 450
miles) is 12 cents per barrel. Freight to
TIE principal ports on Lake Michigan, dis
tance about 1000 miles, is 25 Cents per
barrel. :. Freight from ports on Lake Erie
(say Cleveland and Toledo) to the Ohio
River and Cincinnati is so cents per bar
rel. Freight from Chicago to the Missis-
sippi River and st. Louis is SO cts per bbl.
Minimum price of Salt at the Onondaga
Works in I849, 80 and 81 was from 70
to 90 cents per barrel; in 1859, 81 per
barrel; in 1853, 81 l2; in 1854, ST. 25;
in '55, 81 80, and in '56, s 40 per bbl
Solar Salt costs about the same price to
manufacture as boiled Salt. Solar Salt
weighs about 10 pounds to the bushel
(measure.) Boiled Salt weighs about Sc
pounds to the bushel, varying, however,
according to the position of the kettles, to
a weight considerably above and also con-
siderabiy below this standard.
Duty paid to the State of New York on
Salt manufactured at Onondaga is always
reckoned on Sc pounds (this being the
statute bushel), and covers the expense
incurred by the State for pumping up the
water and delivering it to the premises of
the manufacturers.
A Salt Jloch at Onondaga, of the larg-
est size, is made of brick, about l2 to IS
feet wide, four to five feet high, and form
ing two parallel arches, extending the
whole length of the block. Over, and
within the top of these arches, are placed
common cast iron kettles, holding about
SO to 70 gallons of brine, placed close to-
gether in two rows the whole length of
the arches. A fire built in the mouth of
the arches passes under each kettle into a
chimney, built generally SO to $50 feet
high, averaging from SO to 20 kettles in
each block. A single block with one row
of kettles is about half of this width,
The quantity of Salt made in one of
these double blocks in the year (say of
eight months) averages 10000 to $4,000
bushels of Sc pounds.
The cost of a busbel of Salt produced
at Kanawha is about I7I cents.
Freight on Liverpool Salt, from New
Orleans to Louisville, averages about 35
cents per sack.
A good portion of the coarse hard Salt
imported into the United States from the
most southerly islands of the West India
group, is kiln dried, cleansed, ground very
fine and put in small packages for culinary
or dairy use. The amount of course and
fine salt imported into the United States
from foreign countries for the year ending
June 80, 1856, was 15,405,864 bushels.
Amount of domestic salt exported during
the year ending June 80, 1856, was $685.
458 bushels. Amount of foreign salt ex-
ported during the year ending June 80,
1856, was 1876, 427 bushels.
Yours truly SAMUEL HorAL1No.