The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-08-10

| are now IN couroe OF con stfuCtlon.
SDuring this slime, however, the compa-
| NY under the supervision of NJ. G..
Wright present superintendent, sank q
second well few hundred yards distant
| from the first, and from these two wells
during the progress Of these experiments,
considerable salt Of superior quality has
| been manufactured and put on the mar
ket, both at Cairo and in this city.
Well Nc. was sunk but 1910 feet be-
meath the surface, but is to be deepened to
the depth of 1900 feet.
IL costs about f12,0 900 to sink one of
these wells, and they afford flow Of forty
gallons per minute, and under these ex-
periments, with but temporary appliances,
the company have manufactured about 10
barrels of salt per day. Other wells will
he sunk by the company.
THE WORKS SOW IN PROGRESS or rRyc-
TON.
The buildings now in course Of con
struction for the manufacture Of salt from
these and other wells yet to be opened
here, are evidences that this new and I'M
portant enterprise 10 no longer an expert
ment, but has become ons Ui tho impor-
tant advance steps in Egyptian manu-
factories. The building viii cover a large
area of ground and is at the following d.
mentions Furnace walls, l2UN2J feet
oven furnaces 25xl20 feet, settlers and
grsiners department 5Os 10 feet the salt
warehouse 50Xl30 feet and u Clstern and
heater lO1l40
The copper pipes OF trays 10 be Gun.
pioyed 10 the granting and settling de-
partments are about 5,UU0 feet or nearl,
one mile in length and are the most costly
item in the catalogue of materials used
in salt works of this character.
10 the construction OF these works ZOO
wv common brick will be used in that
portion which requires walls, and 10000
lire BRICK for the furnaces. From the
above outline Of the buildings to be used
IN this mandatory it wall be seen that
portion Of them will be VI wooden struct-
ure, but the company having first cut
pied themselves with n model II the mo (
plan, and experts to erect them,
1t Is expected they will be complete in ali
their departments. The works are being
erected On the west side Of the l. &. X K
track, little to the north west of the salt
wells and on beautiful plateau, n dis
lance OF between !, 200 and 300 feet from
the wells, and about the same distance
from the coal chutes Of the company.
is being constructed
THE RESERVOIR
Is TO be 100 feet long by 100 feet wide
about ID feet deep, and with capacity to
hold one million gallons of brine, which is
to be conducted from the salt wells to this
reservoir by means of n force pump
through wooden pipes to be laid under
ground. This Reservoir is being formed
by digging, or rather scooping out the
earth, and throwing it up, ss the bank of
leyee, and is 1t the intention to make this
big salt pound ornamental as we'll MS use.
fnl by sending and shading its broad
levee walks and borders.
As matter of interest to fishermen we
will add that salt fish will be deposited ia
this big salt pound.)
The saline waters will be conducted
from this reservoir through pipes and the
cistern to where it undergocs the above
indicated process by boiling and evspora.
in the copper pans or pipes.
The fuel required to run these salt
works will be coal exclusively, which will
be carried from the compsny's coal chutes
to the salt furnsces,b by means of . narrow
gauge railroad to be constructed upon an
elevated or tresseled track sufficiently
nigh rs not TO obstruCt the railway be-
| meath II.
\ wv >,l- .au~ss,,s~ \. MN no, tie gu. OF
place to say that the fuel required to run
this immense establishment, will cost COM
pars.ively little or nothing Ms slack and
nut coal, which can be used largely for al
manufacturing purposes here, has hitherto
been worthless or nearly so, At all the coal
mines in and around DuQuoin. The
| company expect to manufacture At least a
car load OF salt per day, from 20 10 80
! bbls from the start, on completion of
their works, and they expect 10 have them
ready for operation by Dccembe- next.
The cost per barrel in the salt msnufac-
tory at Syracuse, New York, is 81 80.
Each furnace turns out about so barrels
per day and employs from so to 60 hands
to do the work From this, the reader
can form an approx innate estimation of
the number OF hands that will be required
to run the Halliday salt works.
The capacity of these salt works will
| not be quite as large MS we stated in an
item concerning them u few weeks since,
but the reader can form pretty good idsR
of their extent from the fact that the
works will cost about 800, 900 in cash.
We have now given nm outline Of this
important enterprise in Ms few words as
! possible, II II lacks perspicuity our read
ers will appreciate our desire to practice
| brevity.
THE M" AND SUPERIOR VEIN Oh COA..
1t may not be generally known, but it
is n fact nevertheless, and worthy of pub
lie office, that Vim. Z. Halliday X Co.,
have tor some time past had n surveying
party engaged IN exploring various por-
tions Of southern llinols, to ascertain
where the best coal could be found. THIS
research has been conducted on scientific
principles, under the sdyice Of tho best
geologlst OF the West. The exploring has
been done BY posse Of men under al eI-
perleLced miner, and after extending these
explorations throughout many of the
counties OF Southern Illinois, where the
coal seams are known To exist this COM
psny reached the conclusion that no bet
ter coal III the state of Illinois could be
found, than that which 10 imbedded be- |
meath. the surface, within the boundaries Of |
Perry county, hence about sI
weeks since, their exploring party |
WAS put 10 work, on the east |
bank oil Rses creek, to ascertain whetLsr
OF not II coal vein existed there. 1t is
proper 10 state here, that there WAS All
opinion bold by some Of the coal men, that
the llulJupln coal vain MN ,l,,a