East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-01-31

doga was carried on in 1859 by twenty
eight different parties, using aggregate
of 20, 1856 covers and occupying S,4O3,e4O
square feet, or nearly l93 acres of sur
face The aggregate value of these
works at $40 the cover is 81 ,240, 900
Tine aao salt manufacture was carried on
by ouo hundred aud tour separate parties
uhD usc an aggregate of 3l2 blocks and
I6,434 kettles Estimating the value OF
these blocks at 4 1000 each, the total eapi-
tai represented here
is...................... 81 ,2lS,OOO
Add value of solar works. .........' l,24O,OOO
Total capital in salt Manufacture, s2,is3,O 600
The total annual produce Of salt in the
United Kingdom is 1852, ,0l5 tons,
which, at 1000 lbs. per ton, amounts to
52,215,S93 bushels. The total exports
and their value for 1855 was f26S,S57;
1856, C276,2I2; 1858, E239,9G9.
The principal salt producing districts
in England arc Cheshire and Worcester
shire. 1t is mostly manufactured from
rock salt At Norwich, in the former
county, the bed of salt is not less than
go feet thick, mile long and 1900
yards abroad.
Salt is extensively manufactured from
sea water on the shores of the Mediter-
ranean, in the south OF France and on
the western coast. At the saline Berre
the evaporating surfaces cover an area Of
8l5 English acres, and the amount manu-
factured is 20,000,000 Kilograms, (220
lbs. each,) or 100000 bushels. The
saline Of Baynas yield annually 10000
tons, (1I2,SS9 bushels;) 1850 tons of
sulphate of soda (Glawber's SALT worth
thirty francs the ton, and 900 tons Of
chloride of potassium, worth $50 francs
the ton.
The total manufacture Of Salt in
France, in 1857, was: on the salt marshes
of the Mediterranean, 100000 tons !;
western coast, 23l 900 tong salt springs
and mine, 10000 tons - making an
aggregate Of $4,000 tons, equal to
1851, l43 bushels and gives occupation
to IG, $50 workmcn.
Sea water is extensively evaporated by
the Biscayans on the shores of Spain and
Portugal. The salines of the lagoons Of
Venice cover an area Of about 1,63U
English acres. The salt mines Of Cen
tral Europe have been celebrated for
ages. Those Of Nielicka and Bochiua,
in Galicia, are well-known-they belong
to tie extensive saliforous tract lying
ALONG both side; Of the Carpatfians, fad
embrace the mines of Walaclia, Tran
sylvauia, Galicia, Upper Hungary, Upper
Austria, Styria, Salsberg, and the Tyrol.
The total amount of salt annually
produced by three Of the leading nations
Of the earth is as follows: Great Britain,
52,2l5,S93 bushels; France, 20,357, ,143;
United States, 1l,234,000 - total, Sc,
S07 ,036 bushels.
Besides the use Of salt for mechanical
and agricultural purposes, it enters large
ly as an article Of food into consumption
Of all classes Of people, and it seems, like
water and many other natural products,
to have been provided with special refer
u. o tae physiological constitution of
.aa lg ,-rIWNy sought by the lower
c.aaiaIy the Rumiuantia and
'uat lerwa'a. Bees, even, are fond of
slipping it from a state of solution.--
Muugo Park says, that in the interior Of
Africa, "the greatest Of all luXuries is
salt. It would appear strange to Euro
pean to see a child suck O piece of rock
salt as ic it were sugar This, hewe ycr.
! | have frequently seen. Although iu
tho inland parts the poorer class OF ju-
habitants are so very rarely indulged
with this precious article, that to say a
man eats salt with his victuals, is the
same as saying he ID rich man. have
myself suffered great inconvenience from
the scarcity of this article. The long
use of vegetable food creates so painful
longing for salt, that no words can
sufficiently describe it," Burchell states
that he sometimes used to send ninety
miles for a gallon Of salt
The consumption Of this article foi
food increases in the direct ratio Of the
average refinement Of people or of the
world. We can, therefore, see no limits
to the demand. This will continue to
increase most rapidly in these regions
where the population and improvement
are making most progress. In this re
spect, no part of the world will compare
with the great Northwest. When, in
addition, it is remembered that salt has
long been used in some countries as al
improver of the soil, and that recent re
searches have shown it to be well adapted
for this purpose, there is no reason tC
fear that the manufacture can be over
done. There are no evidences that tn,
rapidly increasing of Onondaga salt ha
pcrceptibly affected the price for tn
period OF forty years.
Such being the facts, the great gsogrGph
zeal ertent of Tho salt basin Of Nicnyan-
perbqps YOUR TISfEs THE EXTEYT OF tina
or Nrw YoRT-together agjh TIE EXTRA
; oRDtNARY STRENGTH oy THE BRINE fmnis
gtr0Rg reasons 10 anticipate lidt, at no d'
/, iapt d1y, MICHIeAN Will BIC ruE bEADiN
sALr pGoDucrNg STATE IN THs UNION; an
iudicious public policy should be shape
with reference to forwarding this resal
KEvTucKY.- The general impression
that the secession feeling is increasing j
: Kentucky. VIRGIL HIcox, Esq, Chai
O ,s,.,, of ,ho non,ocratic State Centrj