East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-12-03

These works produce in the aggregate
about $50 barrels daily. Other compa-
MES are preparing for extenslve opera
tons. Among them are parties from
Connecticut who have located at Ports
mouth; j. II Hill at Zilwaukie; Curtis,
Williams Il Hyde at Carroton and a
company from Ohio, who have located at
Saginaw City. 1t is probable that before
another fall there will be investments en-
gagged in the manufacture OF salt of from
S300,00 to 100000 an this district,
where not a bushel of salt was produced
prior 10 the summer of 1850. The az
gregatc production for 1861 has probably
reached 100000 bushels. In estimating
the probable growth Of such branch Of
manufacture it will be safe to take for q
guide the data of tue same business in
the State OF New York,t.
The average annual product of the
Onondaga salt springs was
Bushels
During ten years from 1917 TO ls26,.... COS 900
During ten years from 1927 TO ls s6. 80. 594 900
During ten years from 1881 10 l9i5, 3O5S,Q0
During ten years from ls47 TO 1885,, =. '5,0sS,oO0
Nature having given us foothold in
tho very centre of the vast western
market, which has been gradually built
up for the Onondaga trade 10y the efforts
of State legislation aud of private cap
ital, the rate Of our increase should be no
less than that above noted.
The legislation Of 1859 bad an import
ant influence in developing this boundless
source of wealth, which has so loug laid
hi iden under few hundred feet Of rock
in this portion Of our State. No single
article, excepting only the staff of life,
so intimately connects itself with the
welfare of people as salt. 1t has dur
ing all time been the subject of careful
and important legislation. An eminent
historian, referring to tho fact that the
code of salt laws formerly existing in
France was so oppressive that four or
five thousand persons we're calculated to
have been sent to prison or to the galleys
Annually for offences committed by them,
asserted that their severity had no incon-
siderable share in bringing about the
Revolution. The question of taxation
on salt has at various times engaged the
most serious attention of the British Par
lament and tho Senate Of the United
States, and has ever been recognized as
one Of the first magnitude, affecting all
classes and conditions. At the present
moment there is no want, which presses
more severely upon the people of the
South, now in arms against the govern
ment, than that Of this necessity Of life
Throughout all the Southern States,
Virginia alone furnishes salt in any
quantity, and the manufactures in that
State are confined to the region of the
Kanawha which remains loyal and true to
the Union.
The development OF this vast deposit
in our State, shows that Michigan con
tains within it's own limits everything
necessary to make an empire, instead Of
a State Of secondary importance. a
bounteous Providence has given US every
thing needful, coal, iron, copper, salt,
gypsum, timber of every variety known
IN this latitude, and a soil Of inexhausta-
bic fertility, and it only requires of those
into whose hands the destnies Of this
great State have been placed to display
ordinary wisdom in the enactment of
laws to foster and encourage the efforts
now making by the people to fully de-
velope these sources Of our wealth TO
make Michigan one of the most indie
pendent and powerful Of all the States.
But to do this within the shortest period
we need aud require more attention To
these Subjects OF our resources, aud less
Of the bitterness and animosity Of party
than has been exhibited during the past
few yesrs.-Fyes Press.