New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-20

Tha Russian army viii not suffer from the
tack ~ salt. even il the "Japs'' do intercept the
beef Russia may lie obliged to go beyond her
l.r',rs for other articles Of food to supply her
HUNGRY millions. but not for salt for In different
I-tts Of her great territory are 20 be found salt
lakes. mines Of rock salt and salt wells, which
Promise almost unlimited supplies Of that COM
city. Enough salt is now produced in Russia
o. I-oyide at least ten pounds for each inhab-
i.-nt annually. In 1880 when an imperial
rIas" swept away the excise duty on salt, the
g-rGuct was about 100000 tons annually. This
amount in the course OF few years thereafter
vas almost doubled. the price being reduced ac-
c.rIlasIy.
r. addition TO the well known salt mines IN
Criwea, there is deposit OF salt OF great
tent in the Bakhmut district in the Donetz
basin, from which taken annually more than
10000 tons. At Slaviansk- which is in the
h,.-hlorhood OF Bakhmut. are wells OF brine
from which are e,aporated upward OF 10000
tons yearly. In Northern Caucasus salt ds pro-
!ucyd from small lakes. There lakes also
;. the government OF Ballu. which is near the
caspian Sea In the Erivan government south
At - the Black Sea, and in the Karsk region
sock salt Is obtained from large beds. which
Sc,,ow along the Turkish Persian frontier
..r nearly four hundred miles. In some places
these beds have area OF one square mile and
Gre 80 feet thick.
There is an extensive salt basin in the trans
Nol-a steppes, in the Province Of Astrakhan,
comprising two Of the largest known salt lakes,
E.tou and Baskunchak, a whole group OF the
ru-,aIlcl South Astrakhan salt lakes, and large
ts.s of rock salt in the Chapchaci HILL The
Elton lake is ore Of the richest salt lakes known
60 exist, and covers an area OF 13J square miles.
ia" thickness OF the salt bed is unknown At
teuIts were made to dig a wei, but the project
had TO be abandoned at 4 depth Of fourteen feet
ewing to the hardness Of the salt and the foul
air, which made it necessary for the miners to
return 10 the surface every ten minutes The
IashGuchak lake has an area Of sixty-six square
:.i.-s and the bed Of salt is from twenty TO
t.,n. y-ciEht feet thick The South Astrakhan
lakes number seventy, more than half Of which
are worked. Tie Chapchaci Hill is a solid mass
e. iae1 salt about ifty-three miles south Of the
Ia-lGnchak lake and ffty-seyen miles east Of
RE Eo'ga. It is % feet high. 400 feet wide
tad about two miles long. The salt strata
about $40 hundred and eighty feet thick.
d. siberia salt IS produced in relatively small
Gus. tics, principally owing TO the distance OF
t. salt bearing regions from markets and the
aI-.r.. Of suitable means Of transportation.
ID Western Siberia salt is produced from salt
likes and in Eastern Siberia from brine. In
o., lakUtsk region deposits OF rock salt,
lat far distant from Inhabited localities that
t..r are not worked. At time salt i'm
Io-t.3 from the United States. The price for
E.r H siberia has been high SEQ ton.
The preat salt fields Of Solinen near the Black
70. are perhaps as picturesque as any OF the
salt works in Russia Here the salt is evapo-
1:teI from the brine by the sun in long and
wide rectangular basins laid out upon the
ground 4 bi-'s-eye view of these fields after
the moisture lis been absorbed, leaving the salt
ling In n thin layer on the bottom of these
basins is that OF a series OF fields covered with
l=ht coat Of snow. Surrounding it, cleaning
f. the sun. stacks Of this white snow shaped
like piles OF old round solid shot such as are