The Nevada journal., 1859-09-09


neer, spicy little paper published way
down in Mystic, Ct.. we noticed cor
respondence from salt Point" We
have taken the liberty of ofrepublishing
the letter. 1t will explain itself. We
do il knowing there are many eveusin
this vicinity who are not aware of the
extent of our Salt Manufactures and
Springs, and the wealth that continu-
ally flows from them.
Our Salina Letters.
SALT POINT, N. Y.
EDITOR OF PIoNEER,-Sir, receiv-
ing the Mystic Pioneer this morning
damp from your press, reminds us of a
promise we made you some few weeks
since, in relation to letter on the
subject Of Salt; and, Notwithstanding
the thermometer is 90 in the shade,
we will commence, feeling incompe-
tent to give'anything like an adequate
description of our salt manufactures
and salt springs or to please the read
ers of the Pioneer. However, we will
briefly as possible take glance over
what we call the Reservation, which
means the salt lands or the lands own.
ed by the State.
The salt springs are of no recent
discovery. The Indians and the wild
deer long ago frequented these sali-
nes. The former making salt enough
to season his bear meat, (f he chose
TO use it.) and the latter to lick the
salt whichis continually making on
the earth's surface when the sun
shines. But it has been left for the
white man to descend into the bowels
of the earth, and bring out its
wealth in the way of brine, which as
we shall show, not only enriches the
State, but makes us one of the most
fourishing and popolous cities in GEN.
tral New York. We learn by re-
port of one Of the old superintendents
of the salt springs, that the first lots
leased by the State for the purpose of
making salt, was in 1877. During
that year there were 25,474 bushels
of salt manufactured. Since that
time the business has rapidly increas-
ed, until it has reached the almost
Incredible amount lin 1851 off 7,O33,-
219 bushels, or i,406,644 barrels,
which was sold for 81 25 per barrel,
(Daball's arithmetic being found in
almost every house N. L. Co., we will
let every reader figure the amount
into dollars and cents for himself)
We have some twelve wells, aver
aging in depth from 200 to 800 feet.
-Four pump houses, costing nearly
100000, la5oring day and night, like
mighty giants, sucking, as it were, the
very life's blood from the heart of the
earth. then throwing it in streams,
eight inches in diameter, high into the
air, depositing it IN strong and i'm
mense reservoirs erected for the pur-
pose. We have also earth reservoirs
on some elevated positions for low
field works.-One we will give you for
a sample which holds brine enough to
make 100000 bushels Of salt. The
brine is carried from these res
ervoirs through large logs to any part
of the reservation, distance of seve-
raj miles. We have 312 salt blocks
containing 16,434 kettles under which
coal or wood fire blazes, as unendirg
as the fires | was wont to hear about
when l was a Sunday School boy at
Upper Mystic. In addition to those
blocks. as we call them, we have 3O,-
7S6 salt covers for solar works. cover
ing 600 acres of rich and beautiful
land. There is over 100000 of
private capital engaged in the business
saying nothing of the pump houses,
and the endless net work of logs,
land, &C., which belongs to the State,
forithe use of which the manufacture
ers pay the State one cent for every
bushel manufactured. This duty at
the first thought, seems small, but last
year the State received from our res
ervation S7O,332 and some cents.
We employ on and around this re-
servation, directly or indirectly. some
5000 men and women, who are barrel
makers. boilers, packers, carpenters,
&c: The amount of wood and coal
consumed, we cannot at this time give
you, but to say it is immense does not
express it.
we could continue our article at
still greater length, go into particulars,
and make it like one of Cobb's stories,
which is always continued in the Ne,O
York Ledger. but we are not Only
aware thai we have intruded upon
your time, patience and paper, but
but we are also aware that many of
your readers are old Salts and will
not relish dish that havors too much
of Turks Island. So we will close.
hoping that Mustic will increase in
wealth and commerce, and that our
Salt Springs will never be PLUGGED
UP. HSgTH.'
Syracuse paper.