The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-03-26
THE SALINE WEALTH OF KANSAS.
Kansas Salt the Purest IN the world.

Kansas Salt the Purest In the World
From a special correspondence OF thu
Leavenworth Times d Conservative
we copy the following article relative
to the Saline resources of our State:
81 observe, by recent article in the
St. Louis Republican,. taken from d
New Orleans paper, that the remarka-
BILE deposit of salt rock on the island
ofPetite Ause, in the Parish of st. Mary.
Louisiana, is to be extensively worked
by gentleman of wealth residing in the
State of Missouri and from which
Louisiana and her commercial center,
ii is supposed, will reap great advanta-
ges. If the quality of this wonderful
deposit is as indicated by the analysis
of DIR. Rindall, made in 1868 by the di-
rection of the United States Govern
menf, and the quantity of salt proves in
exhaustable, then these supposed bene-
fits of the New orleans papers are not
at all improbable.
There is one thing, however, claimed
for the Petite Ause article which is far
from the. real fact, viz: That it is the
purest salt in the world. This is a mis-
take, which will be seen ut once, when
its analysis made by DIR. Rindall is
compared with one recently made by
Prof Gossman, of Syracuse, New York,
from a specimen of salt made by the
Continental Salt Company of Kansas,
Mt the mouth of Solomon river; and
which pioneer company has manufact-
ured, during the warm months of the
past year, by solar evaporation, several
thousand bushels, and which it is in
tended largely to increase on the return
of warm. weather.
The analysis by DR.. Rindall. of the
Petite Ause salt, is as follows:
Chloride of sodium (salt) ............ 9s 80
Sulphate Of lime ............... rs
Chloride Of magnesium ,...s....... 25
Chloride OF calcium 80. ........-.... 10
10000
The above shows an article of re-
markable purity, except in one all i'm
portant particular. 1t is seen to have
thirteen per cent. of chloride of calci-
um, the deleterious ''bitter eaters" of
the salt manufacture, and which rem
ders it entirely untitled for butter max
ing, and a very great draw back on its
utility for beef and pork packing.
Meats can be cured, 1t is true, if the
salt used contains as large n per cent.
of chloride of calcium as Petite Ause
deposit, but butter cannot be left in its
original state of flavor aud neatness if
the salt used is impregnated with chic
ride of calcium.
A recent article In the Rural NeU
Yorker, on the subject of butter making
shows this fact very conclusively.
While this chloride of calcium does
not exist in the Petite Ause salt as
largely as in some brines extensively
used in the United States, yet the form
of its existence is far more objection
able. 1t exists in the Petite Ause salt
in a aH1sfactured condition, while at
the Saginaw and Onondaga groups it
exists in the lines, and can be to
great extent removed while in this
state previous to rystaliZation.
The only brines yet discovered in
this country entirely free from chloride
of calcium, are those of the Kansas salt
groups, in the western part of the
State.
1t is true, brine at Saltville, in
Western Virginia, exists of remarkable
purity, and IL is claimed that chloride
of calcium is not one of its component
parts. 1 have seen, however, several
chemical tests of the Saltville brines, |
In which it was conclusively shown to
exist in small quantities and hence, as
above stated, the only salines known to |
exist in this country entirely free from
the deleterious "6itter 1cdterS,' are |
those of Kansas.
This is indeed, a very important fact |
for Kansas, in view of the vast amount |
of beef and pork packing which in n |
few years will be carried on within her
limits, particularly along the valley of
the Kansas river; and there is no rea-
son in the world why the diaries of this |
State should not, by the use of Kansas !
salt, produce an article of butter in all !
respects equal to any made i'll the east |
ern States.
Ii is seldom, at the present time, good |
butter made in this State can be found |
If more than a day or two old, and this |
is owing in a great measure to the del
eterious quality of the salt used in its
manufacture. 1t is of Importance to
our dairy farmers that they keep this
in mind, aud hereafter use no salt for
butter but such as is made from Kansas
brines.
l would here remark, in passing, that
the Continental Salt Company, near
Solomon City, can now fill ali orders
for such purposes. l will now give
recent analysis of Kansas salt, made by
Prof. Gossman, of Syracuse, New
York:
Chloride Of sodium salt) s.......... 9s,O5 .65
Sulphate OF lime. Observation-Disclosures. 1,72.20
Sulphate of soda Observation-Disclosures. 35.1l
Chloride of magnesium ........... 24O0
Chloride of calcium .........,. not q trace.
This analysis shows the existence of
salt, here in Kansas, having no rival as
to quality in the United States, and the
brines from which il was made last
summer by solar evaporation. are of
ineXhaustible extent"