Salt in the Conemaugh Valley
Subtitle: the importance of the Conemaugh salt works in the early American salt industry (1800-1860)
By: by William C. Dzombak.
Publisher: Saltsburg Historical Soc.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Saltspurg [i.e. Saltsburg], Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 867
Subjects: Salt mines and mining -- Pennsylvania -- Conemaugh Valley -- History -- 19th century.; Salt industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Conemaugh Valley -- History -- 19th century.; Salt deposits -- Pennsylvania -- Conemaugh Valley.; Salt -- History.; Salt -- Chemistry.
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. B1-B9) and index.
Table of contents: title: The need for salt on the frontier; title: Discovery of salt on the Conemaugh; title: Expansion of the Conemaugh salt industry; title: Eye-witness descriptions of the salt works; title: Salt production (surveys of manufacturers); title: Floods damage salt works; title: Transportation of salt from works to market; title: Geology of the salt resource; title: Demise of the Conemaugh salt industry; title: A1: Salt works on the Atlantic seashore; title: A2: New York salt works; title: A3: Kanawha salt works; title: A4: Alum salt; title: A5: Liverpool salt; title: A6: The tariff on salt; title: A7: Virginia salt works; title: A8: Kentucky salt; title: A9: Ohio salt works; title: A10: United States saline at Shawneetown, Illinois; title: A11: Early European salt works; title: A12: Technicalities of salt making; title: A13: Spring-pole experiments; title: A14: Navigable Streams Act; title: A15: Diurnal ebb and flow of ground water.