The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10
THE SALINE WEALTH OF KANSAS.
Kansas Salt the Purest in the world.


From special correspondence of the
Leavenworth Times & Conservative we
copy the following article relative to
the Saline resources of our State:
"I observe by an article in the st.
Louis Republican, taken from a New
Orleans paper, that the remarkable de-
posite of rock salt on the island of
Petite Ause, in the parish of st. Mary,
Louisiana, is to be extensively worked
by gentlemen of wealth residing in the
State of Missouri; and from which
Louisiana and her commercial center,
it is supposed, will reap great advanta-
ges. If the quality of this wonderful
of DR.. Rindall, made in 1868, by the
direction of the United States Govern
ment, and the quantity of salt prove
inexhaustible, then these supposed
benefits of the New Orleans papers are
not at ali 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 mis-
take, which will be seen at once, when
its analysis made by DIR. Rindall is COM
pared with one recently made by Prof.
Gossman, of Syracuse, New York,
from a specimen of salt made by the
Continental Salt Company, of Kansas,
at the mouth of the 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. .---.s
The analysis by Dr. Rindall, of the
Petite Apse salt is as follows: es 70
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Chloride of magnesium ................... .4S
Chloride of calcium. ID
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 calcium,
the deleterious "bitter scdterS" of the
salt manufacture, and which renders it
entirely untitled for butter making,
and very great draw back ON its utility
for beef and pork packing.
Meat can be cured, it is true, if the
salt used contains as large percentage
of chloride of. calcium as Petite Ause
deposit, but butter cannot be left in its
original state of flavor and sweetness
if the salt used is impregnated with
chloride of calcium.
A recent article in the Rural Netc
Yorker, on the subject of butter making,
shows this fact 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 manufactured condition, while at
the Saginaw and sOnondaga groups it
exists in the lines, and can be to a
great extent, removed while in this
state previous to crystaliZation.
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 Saityille, in
1 Western Virginia, exists of remarkable
purity, and it is claimed that chloride OF
calcium is not one of its component
parts. have seen, however, several
chemical tests of the Saltville brines, in
which it was eonclusively shown to ex-
ist in small quantities; and hence, as
above stated, the only salines known to
exist in this country entirely free from
the deleterious "bitter scaters," 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 q
| few years will be carried on within heI
limits, particularly along the valley OF
/ XAAESN8 ElNGE anu t1lCfC Is uO EOlAbOl
in the world why the diaries of this
State should not, by the use of Kansas
salt, produce an article of butter in al
respects equal to any made in the east
ern States. II
1t is seldom, at the present time, good
butter, made in this State, can be found
if more than day or two old, and THU
i is owing in great measure to the ,lele
teriOus quality of the salt used in itl
manufacture. 1t is of importance tS
our dairy farmers that they keep this il
mind, and hereafter use no salt for but
ter but such as is made from Kansa!
brines.
L would here remark, in passing, tina
the Continental Salt Company, near Sol
ONION City, can now fill an order FOL
such purposes. ] will now give re
cent analysis of Kansas salt, made bY
Prof Gossman, of Syracuse, New York
Chloride Of sodium tsait). .:..... sse
SulphAte Of lime. $500. 10
Sulphate Of soda .-.., 9
Chloride Of magnesium -....-.----...s..- i
Chloride Of calcium not a srues
This analysis shows the existence o
salt, here in Kansas, having no rival Q
to quality in the United States, and tn
brines from which it was made las
summer by solar evaporation, are of in