New-York tribune., 1871-01-11

dega monopoly and the consumer. who meets all
tbe cxpense Of monopoly striving 20 absorb the en-
4ire sslt-trade of the country This is strong fd~'
certainly: and if true people much worse ct
izens chan they have thought themselves but has IL
any foundation in factl Lest any person OF dehoa'c
nerves should take alarm at these charges, II may Do
well to state that Salt made at Saginaw, in the STATE
of Michigan has been carried right through inc s'''
works Of the Onondaga manufacturers ana Is no"
on sale along the Mohawk River SO i'r eS' as c AE
sterdam. Our salt-boilers have not eiVuu" s'sF
nav into obscurity." end its SOo1VVV ous"eiS % a."
nual production quite bTavely confrohtS our "'i' ~
every market west Of us, ana may SUI" "lE'" ~
Philadelphia and Baltimore'
Tho ,rs;ness Of making salt is too greet and salt
,xotor oho,as in TOO many places for monopohes TO
$50 Tuyo many other articles of prime necessity
tho vice. Of rs produciOn are and must he small,
go, =, hort intervals and In exceptional times
IT. ,,rlev Of The Saginaw has the brine TO make
olt for the United States and the whelc continent
90 rur,,o beside Now-York could supply 100000
1rsbols uer annum: Ohio 250o00OO Virginia, 500Co-
ono The supply is without limit in Louisiana Kansas
Nebraska Idaho Texos, and nearly every one OF the
great valleys Of the West. Onondaga Salt only inds
q sale beyond the immediate vicinity of the springs
because of its superior quality and because the man
ufacturers put il into convenient form for eonsum-
tion and by their energy, press it into every mar
ket from the fisheries in the far NORTHEAST to even
Baltimore on the South.
Allow me TO saw in closing, that have no interest
in the manufacture of Salt here, beyond that of
citizen anxious to see all branches of industry pros
porous My connection with the Salt business has
been for six years past that Of supervision of the
interests Of the State and the consumer Of Sal-to
sec that the water which belongs to the State, was
used for the greatest good of all parties concerned
In the discharge of my duties have not found the
makers of salt unlike other men-they fully under
stand the facts in the case, and they know tlat so
far from possessing monopoly of the production of
salt, they have to encounter competition
from all directions. They have been
forced by this competition into an
association of their individual interests under a
board Of directors by whose management the great
est economy can be secured in purchasing fuel and
other supplies and in selling their Salt in all the old
markets. and, whenever possible, finding new ones,
Iader this organization, the production Of Salt here
has been very much increased and the consumers
of the far East, as well as the far West have had
their salt at less prices than they would have been
able TO otherwise procure it, but for the existence of
this association and more important than this
the quality Of the Salt made here has by this assO
citation been raised TO standard at least high as
any made in any country and yet the salt-makers
Of Onondaga have furnished a standing target for
the shafts of men profoundly ignorant Of all the
facts in the case. GEO. GEDDES.
O1!ce o. tic Superintendent Of Onondagd sal Springs,
Jan. 6, Isl.