4 On the Muriate of Soda; or Common Salt. 
utary of the Wabash. Salt springs are worked at Sciota ; we 
quantity yielded, however, is comparatively small. There a 
no salt works on the Tennessee river, but on the Holston, a erie 
butary to the Tennessee river, are extensive salt springs, situ- 
ated near Abingdon, eras known by the name of King’s 
and Preston’s salt works. These springs yield a considera- 
ble quantity of salt, which sells at the works, at one dollar per 
e ing’s s wells have produced on a lease of five years, 
an annual rent of $60,000, or $300,000 for the term of five 
ears. Preston’s works: have been rendered much less_valu- 
Kentucky Phils amactone EES s- On the Big and 
Little ag are salt = ae in on anton ; they afford, 
wever, a weak brine, and are on the decline, in conse- 
quence oft ths. reduced price of malt, which sells at fifty cents 
per bushel. Green river furnishes numerous salt works, 
- which are very productive: these works are all flourishing, 
and under favorable ssompenis of i nope. They are the 
most extensive in the state: the price of salt at the works is 
fifty cents per bushel. On Goose creek, also, a tributary to 
the Kentucky Oe are very extensive works; these, and 
the springs on Green river, might support works affording 
mexhaustible quantities of salt ; the price at the works is fifty 
cents per bushe 
n Ohio many ‘salt works exist; they are, however, on the 
decline, in consequence of the reduced price of salt. The 
principal ones now in operation are on the Sciota, Muskin- 
ua and Yellow creek ; ‘the price of salt at these works is 
nts per bushel. 
Illinois, on Saline 1 river, near Shawneetown, are exten- 
pe works, formerly owned by the United States: they 
the property of the state. The price of salt at the 
1s ityscents per bushel. 
fs “on reat Kanawha, are very extensive 
salt works. mas a furnished is about one million 
bushels* per annum, may be increased to almost any 
*It is stated in the last edition of Professor Cleaveland’s Mineralogy, that 
Lae ea amount of salt Tes eee - sont oth States, is one million n bushels ome 
: very lar the present annual as the 
Kanawha works prac furnish this amount, F sexe dae pe Ss 2 
