72 On the Anthracite Region, &c. of Pennsylvania. 
larger, and the salt better and less of it lost, Fine salt, made 
here, does not answer for the packing of provisions for ex- 
portation. 
The salt manufactured at Kiskaminitas and Conemaugh, 
has some years amounted to 300,000 bushels ; it is sold from 
20 to 25 cents at the works. The expense of manufacturing 
does not exceed ten cents the bushel. A large portion of 
the numerous salt works are enabheies near the river, in the 
ravines of the Kiskaminitas, and ¢ or fuel is procured 
from veins situated above the Sh in the side of the hill, 
and costs but a cent a bushel. 
ss salt is now made on the Conemaugh than in former 
years, as the springs are weak and the price of the article too 
low to render it profitable. Seven years since, there was not 
a building in the ravine of the Kiskaminitas: it now con- 
tains a considerable population, and presents, at the base of a 
precipitous eminence, many dwellings and salt works, from 
which black bituminous smoke rises in clouds over the 
hills, or draws through the dusky valley. A clear. stream, 
of considerable breadth, is seen rapidly winding among. the 
mountains. 
The western canal of Pennsylvania is located in the 
valley of the Conemaugh, and will add much to the produc- 
tiveness of these works, and afford great facilities for the con- 
veyance of salt to the Atlantic and Western market. At pre- 
sent, it is transported on waggons to the stra and in boats, 
by a precarious navigation, down the Conemaugh and Alleg- 
hany rivers, to Pittsburgh. 
Considerable salt is nit 2 near Pittsbugh, from a nee 
procured by boring 270 feet. The water is strong, a 
raised by a small steam engine. There is little vkased or 
carbonate of lime in the water. The salt is white, an 
quality. This fountain is sufficient for the annual man- 
ufacture of 25,000 bushels of salt. Salt is manufactured in 
Pennsylvania at weaker saline waters in the vicinity of the 
Ohio 
There are salt springs on the Chenango, in Mercer county. 
Near the Mahony, in Beaver county, a fountain of salt water 
was procured by boring to the depth of 200 fret. It is pro- 
bable that strong saline water, in ‘much of the western secon- 
dary country, may be obtained by boring, as it often occurs 
contiguous to bituminous coal, and is indicated by salt licks, 
and by slate containing sulphur. 
