THE SALT COMPANY OF ONONDAGA 



Was establishd in March 1860, for the purpose of uniting the 

 interests of the different manufacturers of Onondaga Salt, in 

 order to secure a more thorough and systematic management 

 of their business to cheapen the cost of manufacturing, and 

 to lessen the expenses of distributing the article to all points 

 where it finds a market, thereby enabling the manufacturers 

 to supply more distant sections of the country than they had 

 before been able to do, and also to improve and give uni- 

 formity to the character of Onondaga Salt. 



By the establishment of its own responsible Agencies in all 

 the larger markets, the company has been able to furnish its 

 salt at all times and at all points, to regular dealers and con- 

 sumers at the established prices at the works, (with the addi- 

 tion only of freight and cost of handling,) and to maintain a uni- 

 formity in the price of the article which had never before been 

 secured, and also to raise the character of the business from a 

 fluctuating and uncertain one, to a commercial standard of 

 uniformity and reliability which its importance requires, and 

 which cannot but conduce to the advantage of both the dealer 

 and consumer. 



By this union of interests under one management, the com- 

 pany is enabled to place and control the manufacture, through 

 all its processes, under the direction of the highest scientific 

 talent and skill aided by competent and careful overseers 

 thereby ensuring not only improvement in quality, but per- 

 fect uniformity in the manufacture. It is thus able to supply 

 every variety of this most necessary article of civilized life, in 

 its purest form, for the various uses to which it is applied. 

 Fully sensible of the great importance that an article of such 



