The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-21

been awarded prizes at five worlds fairs.
Purified salt for dairy, table and medici-
nal purposes is exhibited by OnrObe Coba
of Barcelona. 1t is of snowy whiteness,
is almost as dry as chalk, and is recon-
mendcd by the Academy of Medicine of
Spain. 1t is put up in handsome paper
and metal packages and in glass lars
The table salt from Japan is put up in the
same way. Greece exhibits eleven VariC-
ties of salt, all so full of impurities that
attract moisture that they are fast melt
ing away.
In the British section a fine display is
made. This pavilion is ornamented by
BarthOldi's statue of Liberty enlighten-
ing the world and two cows, carved from
salt
In the mining exhibit of the Argentine
Republic are attractive displays of salt.
The Rio Negro Salt Company OF San Bias
show hive qualities of salt produced at
their works near Buenos Ayres This
| company possesses concessions of large
! saline lakes, and during the summer the
| water is naturally evaporated, leaving
large quantities Of dry salt deposited on
the margin of the lakes 1t is here col
lected, purified and sent to market At
present about 100000 tons are annually
| collected, but the amount can be aug
mented to almost any extent. Some
large photographs show the salt blown
into drifts and men shoveling it into
carts. The salt is about % per cent. of
chloride of sodium A smaller exhibit
is made by a salt company at Buenos
Ayres. ....-
There are eleven exhibits of salt in the
Mexican department. Most of the speci-
mems are the result of evaporating water
of lakes and springs by solar heat. Rock
salt has recently been discovered in seV-
nIaRp9 MAyIpn 90 oil f~.l .,S,,
secured to work the mines. Large GUAM
titles of salt are needed in this country
for reducing the various mineral ores.
Eight concerns in Ontario, Canada, ex-
hibit salt. The commissioner states that
several beds of rock salt have recently
been discovered from 20 to 200 feet in
thickness.
One of the most attractive exhibits in
the mining building is made by the
United States Salt Company of Clevc-
land, Ohio. It consists Of q salt fac
tory in operation The brine is pumped
into an evaporating pan, where it is
kept boiling. AS fast as the CRYSTALS
form they are raked and put into a
drying apparatus When all the water
has been removed the salt is conveyed
to mill, where it is ground. In the
works Of which this is a mode twelve
varieties of salt are prepared, Of which
lib llGuOWH DIdlQ SbduOS nrSb. having
purity ofOVer 30 per cent In boring for
atural gas some three years ago a deposit
Of salt rock was reached at a depth of
$500 feet below the surface of the ground.
six wells were sunk, four on the lake
shore at Cleveland ana two in Newburg,
a suburb of the city The salt is not
mined, but water is forced down on the
deposit, where it becomes saturated, and
is then Withdrawn and evaporated. The
present yield is 1900 barrels per day.
Kansas makes a fine display of the rock
salt mined at Lyons, Rice county. Some
Of the large specimens exhibited arc
almost chemically pure. The deposit is
rom 400 to ] 900 feet below the surface,
and in some places is over 300 feet thick,
and tests show that it extends at least
40 miles from north to south, and is in
one place fifty miles wide. This salt can
nc mined and raised at a cost of 81 so per
on. At Hutchinson, where this deposit
was first struck, salt IS produced by the
process employed at Cleveland.
New York sends a case from the state
museum, sixty varieties of salt mined or
cvaporated in the state. Among them
are several hopper shaped crystals.
Louisiana makes a fine display Of the
rock salt found on the island near New
IBERIA. A ife-sized statue Of Lots wife
stands before this exhibit.
wyoming SenuS one specimen OF salt
made from the water Of a large spring
in the Utah exhibit are specimens of rock,
stock, hide dairy and table salt. The
supplies of salt in this territory are enor-
nous. California shows rock salt from
san Bernardino county almost as beauti-
tul as that in the Russian section: solar
salt from San Diego bay, and salt made
by artificial evaporation from several
places. The Diamond Crystal Salt Com
amy, Of ST. Clair, Mich, exhibits table
nd dairy salt very white and faky in ap-
pearance and color. Several other states
and territories make smaller exhibits Of
salt that are not Of commercial interest
10 is an interesting fact that most Of the
pOsits Of salt were discovered while
tospecting for rock oil Or natural gas
Sic enterprisiuRsca after ma terinls
.g producing light and neat bored bet
-,r than they knew They reached some
Thing more valuable Than oil or gas
hey reached the substance that Us as cs-
scutial 10 the support of animal life as
God, air and water They found some
hing that does not Uaea Oh iu wanor hIf