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States and Canada. With the development of the 

 salt mines in New York State the price of salt fell 

 from about $30 a ton to a figure little more than $5.00. 

 With this decline in price little effort was made to 

 alter manufacturing methods sufficiently to keep the 

 then existent companies solvent. Each followed the 

 other in a succession of bankruptcies until the in- 

 dustry was totally at an end. In our own case we 

 have been fortunate enough with certain new develop- 

 ments to make the manufacture of solar salt a success- 

 ful undertaking. The salt now being produced at 

 Inagua is of extreme high purity and for the most part 

 all that is shipped from the island is of C.P. grade. 

 In other words, our main attempt has been to get 

 away from the old methods of solar salt manufacture 

 which almost invariably precluded bulk shipments of 

 a chemically pure product and in many cases went far 

 in straining the fair limits of Technical Grade. 



What was known on old maps as Lake Rosa, a 

 desolate mud flat of a lake which was the breeding 

 ground of a dying flock of flamingos, has with its 

 new name of Lake Windsor become the chief object 

 of company development. Vast quantities of sea water 

 are being pumped into this lake. Salt pans are now 

 being built on what was known as the Savannah, 

 roaming ground of countless donkeys, the progenitors 

 of which were brought from Spain by Mr. Matthew 

 Clark of London. Oddly enough, these donkeys were 

 to be raised for use primarily in the salt mines in 

 New York State. 



To facilitate the operation of this new salt area, as 



