East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-02-09
East Saginaw Salt Mfg. Co.
REPORT TO THE STOCKHOLDERS.


GENTLEMEN:-It is nearly ten months
since you were encouraged by the law
enacted by the State Legislature at its
last session, offering a bounty of ten
cents per bushol on salt manufactured
from water obtained in this State, to
associate yourselves for the purpose Of
It's manufacture at this locality. The
results Of careful observations by geolo-
gists for series of years, pointed to
this valley as the probable centre Of the
great salt basin of the state, with suili-
cient dircctness to warrant the expense
of sinking well, to test their accuracy,
We have been aware Of your natural
anxiety for information, during the pro,
grcss Of the work; but the Board of
Directors, at an early day, adopted the
policy Of studiously Withholding the facts
developed from time to time, however
encouraging, lest they might excite hopes,
which the final result would fail to sat
isfy. We are happy now to assure You
that Saginaw possesses salt water, second
in strength and purity, and we believe in
quantity, to none in the United States,
aud refer you to the facts embodied in
this report, as proof of our correctness.
"Thc East Saginaw Salt Mfg. Co,
was organized in April, 1859, under the
general mining and manufacturing law of
the State, and also under the law of 1859,
for the encouragement Of the manufac-
ture of salt. The capital stock is $50
600, which under the general law, may
be increased to S500000
Acting under the advice of Mr.. Jno
/ S. Clark, one Of the commissioners APP
pointed by the Legislature of New York,
to carry out the provisions of the acts of
1857 and 1883, "to develop the resources
Of the Montezuma Salt Springs" we
adopted the plan of boring, pursued with
great success by them, being in the main,
the same in use at Kenhawa, Va, where
they claim to have reduced the expense
TO the minimum. a lot was contracted
for at the north part of the city, on the
Saginaw river, and boring was begun in
June The shaft is 81 inches in diane.
ter and has now been sunk to the depth
of $40 feet We omit detailed state.
inent Of the material through which we
have passed, and state simply tho facts
connected with the development Of brine
The strength of the brine has been
measured by the salometer, an instru.
ment arranged by designating distilled
water 0, and the same kind of water
saturated with common salt 100. With
instruments thus graduated the brine o
the Onondaga salt wopls varies at differ
cut places and seasons from 76 ; down
even as low as II > The wells, which
do not furnish brine above 30 : are MOI
considered worth working. patent Office
report, 1859
At depth Of 70 feet, we struck brine
measuring l , and rising 3 feet above
the surface at 102 #. it measured 2 ?
: at oil #. 10 ,; at 293 f. Ia dscharg
ing eighty gallons per minute, of tenn
peraturc Of 5O7 by the thermometer
, and rising fourteen feet above the surface
at 49, f. 20 9; at 516 #. 40 >; at 53l
#. a > AT $50 Il. GO , at 500 #. Ga
at COG #. Sc >; Temperature 81 AM
| at $50 f. 80 :; only ten degrees shor
Of saturation At the depth of 635 #
we entered bed Of light sand stone
when the flow Of water increased to suel
degree, as to carry off all the bOrngs
This has continued up to the present time
Asto the purity Of the brine, we refc
to actual analysis. \ quantity Of it wa
sent TO Dr. James II. Chiffon, the dis
tinguisbed analytical chemist Of New
York, when Il measured Only Gi9 b!