Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-25
Salt in Texas,

We casually mentioned the other dav that tba..
were salt works back Of Corpus Christi Since
then We nave learned the character Of these woIks
| and something Of their capabilities -
The Laguna Madrs, in former times. vas a Iona,
/ narrow bay, with an opening at each end. eor1m1
nicatlng with the Lqttery bar has st-atobs1
across II about the midway. Setting back from the
Laguna ls the great Salt Lagoon, into which low III
| wet seasons number Of streams, but in dry yzea-
/ ther no fresh water ever runs in This Oraat SsIe
Lagoon Is an immense e de Szc containing not less
than sixty square miles Of salt water. ysrving IN
/ depth from an inch 70 six feet
Al that part of the coast the southeast winds nr
vail, with little interruption, for nine months in The
year During these nine months there is but Little
rain. The effect Of this wind, an6 the heat of The
sun Is TO constantly eFaporate the water from this
great natufal salt vat As fast the water ia eva
porated, fresh supplies flow in from the sea Bnt
when salt water IS evaporated the salt is left The
consequences Of this operation is, that there Is con-
stanty going in the Laguna the deposit Of sat in
large quantities. The water itself is Of eourse
more salty than that Of the sea- and we are told that
bush thrown into it and left for twelve hours be-
comes BEAUTIFULLY encrusted with crystals of salt
The sott0m OF the lagoon is covered with salt to
the depth Of from to two feet This salt is said
BY those who know, to be equal 70 Sc. Cbes or
Turks Island for curing meat, and far superior %
the best Liverpool salt. The quantity 10 be had
inexhaustible By the demand that will ever BE-
made upon it. SuppOsing the bottom Of the lagoon
is encrusted one foot thick with salt calculation
IGNSdlS Euab every mile OF that
lagoon has over twenty-five millions OF bushels 6f
salt. and were it all taken away to-day there would
be as much more in all probability in six months7
time! There are to-day, probably, within reach Of
rhe rudest appliances for gathering, not less than
thousand millions OF bushels Of salt in the salt
lagoons and all to be had for the gathering II
Texas suffers for want Of salt il viii be because
she has not enterprise enough to pick up the rich
gift which the God Of Nature has poured into
her lap.
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Mexican cartmen to deliver it in Corpus Christi
bay. There are times, we are informed. when the
salt may be scraped up in fatbosts and taken %
deep water. But the cartmen can, it is believed,
be obtained TO deliver q hundred thousand bushels
IN Corpus Christi bay at cost Of not 10 cents
per bushel From Corpus there IS inland navigation
for fiat t-bottomed scoEs to within twenty miles Of
the Brazos river. r..r
As we have before stated, this salt is far superior
to Liyeruool salt: snd if Old Abes blockade forces
Us to open a business of supplying ourselves with
cur own salt it will not be the least Of the benefits
1t will confer upon We believe it will Be posi-
lie to deliver salt in Houston at from o cent to
cent and half per pound. It IS now worth two
snd half. Who takes the lead IN the enterprise?
Houston Telegraph.
Tall Men in AIaOama and Ge0rEias
Ths Montgomery Ala Itailpublishes the follow
ing letter from one of its oldest subscribers:
Seeing the boast Of the great and tall Georgia
soldier who was six feet ten inches high ask you.
In some palt Of your valuable Journal, to which
have been a subscriber for the last ak years, to
live this publication
viii now give their ages, hight and weight Ny
lIdest son. N. J. Horn, is twenty eight years old,
tx feet three inches high, weighs l56 pounds.
Josiah J. Horn. twenty-six years old, six feet seven
inches high weighs 17S pounds. Isaac j. Horn,
he third is six feet seven inches high, weighs 202
pounds twenty four years cid. Edward L. Horn
3 twenty two years old ak feet three inches high,
Weighs us pounds. Rowlen W. T Horn is in his
wentieth year is six feet two inches high weighs
GS pounds. And further say, that there are in
he Coffee Rangers twenty FIVE men who win aver .
ge six feet five inches high and viii weigh $50
ounds. ii. k. H. HoRN.
A correspondent of the Montgomery AdUTtiscr
eplies to the above as follows:
BARBAxe4s BARRACKS, Sept. Is, Is51-I see in
ne of the late issues of the Nail q great blow
bout big men, and boasts that GeOrgia cannot beat
: Now, your humble servant being Georgian
nd the blow from an Alabamian, / will show him
nat alone IN my native county, that his big boy.
oys" amt no where! What viii bis blow majesty
mink, when / tell him that Meriwether county,
ieorgis, (my native eounty,) can produce a men
feet inches high, with COMMANDER ieeI m
bes high; the aggregate weight Of the ~ men, Ia
81 lbs: its commander weighing 3fl pounds, with
ut one pound Of surplus flesh, can hold l5j pounds
arms length Ills lady was feet IL inches high,
nd weighed 263 pounds. Now, Alabama, bring in
our c5iossals and if you can beat this then take
~ Old hat. know a boy, son Of Mr.. John Grant 4
+ the same county, II years of age, weighs l99
at something Ike a number twelve shoe would be
Sundays ft Your humble serVHnt at the age Of
4 weighed I6S pounds; now, us pounds. could
lention other counties in Georgia that raise tall
zen, but think old MeriTether viii stand her
snd with sny Of them. GEORGIA CvH.