East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-06-24
Fro n tho Chicago Journal.
The Salt Trade Of Chicago.


its statements aud false in its conclusion
and shows such entire ignorance of tn
ge eography o: the country and the histo
ry of passing events, that it is calculatec
to mislead the pnblic and create an un
necessary alarm about an article which
indispensable to the public health au'
convenience.
The unusual large demand for sal
which now exists, and which has existed
for few months past, is owing entirely
to the blockade Of tho Southern ports
and principally the port of New Orleans
and not to the markets of Cincinnati
St. Louis, and the entire region of coun
try tributary to those markets have beer
cut off from their accustomed source al
Kanawha,"
The Kanawha salt works are located
in loyal country, where they have been
under the protection of the Federal flag
nearly all the time during the existence
of the rebellion-have been running al
their full capacity, and have been and
are now furnishing salt to st. Louis and
Cincinnati and the region of country
tributary thereto. The Ohio River,
Hooking Valley, Pomeroy s. Mason City
Salt works are also manufacturing an un.
usual quantity of salt, and at the pres
ent time sharp competition is kept up
in st. Louis, Cincinnati and other points
between these works and the Syracuse
or Onondaga works.
This present unusual and temporary
scarcity of salt in the Chicago market is
owing entirely TO the fact that the old
stock of last years manufacture left over
at Oswego and Buffalo for spring ship
ment, was light, and is now entirely ex-
hausted, only about 10000 barrels hav-
ing been shipped to Chicago market this
season, and to the fact that the new crop
being manufactured this season has not
time to reach this market, large quanti-
ties being now ahoat on the lakes, which
will soon arrive and entirely relieve the
pressure on the market.
The Salt manufactured by the Salt
Company of Onondaga, at Syracuse,
New York, is conducted on different
principle from the salt made at Saginaw
and other places. The brine is the prop
erty Of the State, aud the whole pro-
cess is Under laws for its regulation with
severe penalties, SC. It's manufacture
is prohibited in the winter, for the rea
son that it has been found that the arti-
Gle produced when the atmosphere is full
of moisture is not so good as when the
weather is dry and suitable. The law
reqnires that the brine should stand in
reservoirs or vats definite length OF
time, till it has become purified and suit
able for use. The law also requires that
all the salt shall remain in the bins Ia
days after manufactured, for curing and
drainage, and then no salt shall be sent
away from the works till it has received
the State Officers brand, under a pen
atty of five dollars bushel or twenty
five dollars barrel, besides the confisca-
cation of the property and the boat or
team used in its conveyance. About
seven and half millions of bushels OF
fine salt will be made this season by ar
tificial heat--wood and coal. This fuel
cannot be moved to any advantage till
after the opening of canal navigation,
which was not this season till the lst OF
May. Say it took one week after open
ing the canal before the works got fairly
under way; say it took one week more
to make what is called run, and then
by the law the salt has to lie in the bins
Ia days before being packed, and the
public will at once see that there has not
been time enough since the opening OF
the Erie Canal, to get a supply from
the works, of this years manufacture.
The Salt Company of Onondaga are
now manufacturing 10000 barrels of fine
salt every day, which is being shipped by
canal to Oswego and Buffalo, and then
to be re-shipped by vessels to all the
western markets. 1t is not true that this
salt is being sold east in anticipation of
Government tax. Almost the entire
yield of the works is to be shipped west
of Syracuse, and when we have had time
to reach the new crop, there will be no
scarcity of the article.
Besides the manufacture of 10000
barrels of fine salt daily, the Salt Com
pany of Onondaga have nearly two thou.
, sand acres of solar vats, and are making,
say on an average, 5000 barrels of solar
coarse salt day, which has been pro.
nounced the purest and best article made
for packing beef and pork. Some of the
coarse salt is being ground and put up
in barrels, called ground solar, and is
considered the best article in the world
for rubbing and bulking meats and max
ing pickles. A large crop has already
been harvested and put into bins, where
it awaits the the draining and curing
process required by law, but will soon
be ready for shipment. Some of the
early gathceing is now aaoat for this
market, and will soon arrive, when il
will be offered at a low price, so that
there need be no alarm with the public
about packing salt.
The person who furnished the statis-
tics and statements of the article in the
Times, has been selling Saginaw salt, and
hence his great anxiety that "Chicago
ought to lend all possible encourage
ment to the proprietors Of these works,
and he further aside adds, "that Ssgi-
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