New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-06
sALT.MAKING AT SYRACUSE.

To me EdfIOr OF The Tribune.
SIR Yours of the 23d is received. can now
understand how THE TRIBUNE reached by the salt
They professed to make better article than had
heretofore been made, that would be made by manu-
facturers competing with each other They have lie
for every occasion The inspection has not been at all
more rigid under the monopolists than under
stricted manufacture though the Company has been
able to do, in the small matter Of aa5Sr daty
the Foreign article The Company" made vigorous
effort TO dspaco the Liverpool Fine and substitute their
own TO accomplish which they imported empty SACKS aS
identical and xture to the Liverpool as couo oe
had They branded them /" Factory F1led,' ana useo
other devices 10 make purchaser think he was buying
the genuine Liverpool Fine Salt at least we have right
to suppose that was the intention.
Now there was nothing wrong In this so far as the
quality OF the Salt was concerned Tor onohdaga
whatever variety is good and mas been as good
for the past 20 years. the varieties OF foreign
All the salt men did take the best means they
knew OF to convince consumers Of the fact.
You saw submit my plan TO the Legislature nave
done this faithfully good many years. and seen the
result OF my labor sold before my face Judge Stevens
in 1884, got the chairmanship OF the ways ana Means
and a good position the Canal Committee, through
the power or pretty thorough knowledge OF this question
gave him. The Hon. James A. Bell is about the only
man can now recall who did not sell the Salt Springs as
soon as he found out their value How much ne sur
fered for his faithfulness, will never be known
Two weeks since, sent, at the request OF member OF
the Salt COmmitteein the Assembly, Dill amending the
Salt law. Very likely 1t will be reported this week
though nothing is more uncertain. IL contained
nothing In regard TO an increase In the charge
for lime and use OF lands (misnamed I" duty").
l'If IL did IL would 90 TO the Ways and
Means and Tom Avord ia kept at Albany on purpose to
kill all such things Let me say here that wheh the
State demands fair share of what the salt made at her
salines sells payment for what she does toward s
tlar will ha no
nonopolies: for no company" afford TO pay II In
addition to all else that win have to be paid to keep
everybody else from making salt at all Previous TO
S46 when the inspection was not One-naI What u now
shsH ss
rel Now they pay nearly q so per barrel ad get next 20
The profit goes to Keep sa TS aa
case. He is the owner OF two or three ou % ~
blocks that haze mot made has pSa &
and dividends. probably AocSo for the control
has been added TO the satmaking capacity at our
springs since April 1885, For the reasons see sections a
Of SS salt sS Sa
as there may be after withholding all that certain au
nS%s Sp the 18th Now these
works can use and wash than double the quantity
Ss the sfss nas sRc honestly try
the supply that there s be any and ysry
l short one. , A.. a., GA. -.
boil aso to $50 bushels OF salt per day In
an rily we'll constructed salt block, which need
not cost moro than 1900 or 1850 lwhatever MT Geo.
in this country V said to be about two-thrds Of 2
| bushel annually. II, then. two men work eut zoo
i DAYS in year, they Will have made $4,000 Dusnes-as
much as Is consumed by 1900 inhabitants ms may
have 20 be kept out reach OF the salt boilers even
~ costs per cent OF their value yearly 70 10 IL fer
hans YOU viii think this last item, VIZ Is per cent ex.
trayagant Let me show you 10 10 NOT You VIII aumii
| the work required s worth, therefore the 9l6 are
worth lust what 1t would cost 10 Dud ABOUT 10 aho
what 19l would sell for old material T9e owners OF
the sa works have realized In the past IL years more
for except to be used they have BEEN ali OF which
has been the price Of salt as part Of ts ee
mate cost And they have got them yet and expect
40 keep Them aud, with the help OF THE Tribune will
continue to do as they have done you should 70 Int
good deal worse, for there &C tal stealing has beer
| practiced. Years ago, Ayord Judge Comstock. and
Others not then rich but now very reh were the own
ers Of some marsh-lands or little value. Through
Nven A. Smith, superintendent the State drained thos'
lands by lowering the outlet OF Onondaga Lake, At al
expense Of 10000 They then sold their lands
the state and had tem set oil to themselves for c0hrsS
salt purposes. The interest the property owned by
the State apart for salt purposes to moth
year. and more than twothrds OF the cost OF supplying
brine to the sawOrks Ia spent In distributing IL 70 tn
salt erecons covering they do some 800 acres
every vat which Is more or less sieve, 70 say nothing
OF the 40 miles OF aqueduct the brine runs through
THE TRIBUNE In one month restore the SAT- epfing
20 the people. There no other power that can In
people OF thk State are entitled TO cheap sa an!
people are There is other State Ia the Unon wher
salt has been dear unless transportation mas FORMED
| large portion OF Its cost. Very respy, &C., -,
Buffalo, Feb. 81, 1871. u W. hNShf'
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