Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-14
ABOUT SALT.
Facts About Deposits on Land and Sea
Explained by the Biologists.

!, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from Michigan 10 Texas. If not IN ma
sea IL is in the land. II not 70 il can
be mined; II is dissolved and brought IN
the surface I'm unlimited quantities by
the simplest mechanical devices. ANY
one Of the great salt states-New York.
Michigan or kansas-could produce
enough salt each year to supply this
country. were the population 200 900. 900.
The divisions Of time across this CONT
nent may be said, roughly speaking. 10
represent the salt districts.
Within the last % years salt has Gold
as high as 50 Il barrel and as low as
81 cents a barrel. The barrel itself costs
% cents, ANA there afe $50 pounds 81
salt IN each package. 1t ~ the cheapest
staple of human food. The SO limit was
reached many years ago. and 81 .35 4
barrel il about the highest il has been
Tor many years. The price today ~
about G5 cents barrel III Chicago. ana
there has been a recent reduction, as
has been claimed.
salt Is obtained for the market by two
pIoc"sscs--cyaporat ANA mining
Less than "ne-sixth " tina salt comes
rom the rock salt mines. ana nearly all
81 tina; product IS used for purposes Of
refrigeration 4 typical rock salt mine
= !" n I"nnd at Lyons Kan. N u"
,ai''ul' on tl' great Kansas salt bedS.
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| 'I.''h examiners. from "hirh comes IN"
| salt H'" Dong shipped. f't~'en thest
hammers pillars ~ s,tlt ~ fc,t square
| '-f" "'t IN support III" rp"f N lhr
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| ne ''S''"I "H" !hSI''''~ ines" under
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m '"i' \" ~" bottom II w" Shttit in ~.
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H"ah uhtlI N gently rests upon ttr
! ""'t"H'- f@f UP '.b"N" CLEANS a niue
''h""ir % AEht WHlrA Is the SUMMIT SKY
i'""h " m" mine tAr AR lS cool and
4's- h" thermometer mdfEs ~ oe-
H.-,N "'h''r "hu summer he smell
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WHIT N"H0 II
"''''" -l''i'" H"I' ana ruby HIht IN
i"Sp"hS" /" IN" miners lamps. he can I
imagine p" ms h-for" him the stage
setting Avn great Spectacular drama 4
IN which "" snn" scene W. tn, hum- I
"t the m"rWa!cS plays u leading part /
The miners who toll 10 create these |
outlines lake little notice ~ these I
Things. however They lve but to
maze IT." chambers ~ G@t out more I
SAT- ne ehuS-'hus 81 inc channel |
-'N H.'' nine E"rS on i'' hours. Dig I
-H'~ nm "aN !h uhGri 'he wall oi 1
.ii' I'M TIT iii III 'ah ftath. Ihen comes /
''e i"HA auGuiS "hIch pore row 81 4
''uieS HiEA uH III the wal" These holes /
re Ca Gel WIN dNnani'r- timpcd with /
,poSe mt ahu ''S'haiG ed RAJ cleo ritlty. |
!iuhhIroS III tons ri >alt raj! forward |
Y" I" we ho"f 2. the cavern. Loaded |
'H'" cars II IS wheeled {" IN" hoist and !
goes l" 'he mn above III the machin- /
"cioN II Ihed ~ compressed AR. /
He NorhlHA M TINS mine cover I4aCreS \
seven acres ~ winch are space from
winch salt has been taken and Vet the
mine can hardly ice said to be open. for
is workings are hut a pinhoIe in the
great salt deposits of tho country.
At Hutchinson. Kan. is the largest
salt evaporation plant in the world
MI of the eVaporating plants are built
alike and operated alike. An eight
inch hole is bored from the surface Of
the earth to a depth which reaches
below all fresh water strata. This hole
IS then cased.
\ 7i2-inch hole II then bored to the
bottom IF the salt bed. A heavy iron
pipe is then sunk in this hole 10 the top
of the salt. Inside of this pipe * placed
another Pc inches in. diameter. extend
ing within ~ OF IL feet Of the bottom II
~ the salt bed. The small pine ana the !
larger one incasing il are then con
nected at the top in such a way that {
there shall be no leakage. Water is {
then forced by a steam pump down the /.
small pipe. The pressure forces the !
brine to the surface in the larger pine
The brine carries about - per cent. of /
It's weight in salt. 1t is conducted into !,
taken and allowed to settle. From these
pans the brine is run off into eyaporat-