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[From the Wilkesbarre Gleaner of April, 1814.] 

 Owego Village, — Plaster end Salt. 



A friend of ours has lately returned from Owego, 

 and has been polite enough to favour us with a sche- 

 dule obtained from a respectable merchant of the vil- 

 lage, of the business transacted there during the last 

 winter. The curious cannot fail to be pleased with the 

 perusal. It should be borne in mind, that it is but a 

 few years since the place where Owego is built was a 

 wilderness. 



During the sleighing (last winter, 1813-14) there 

 were on the road from Ithaca, the head of the Cayuga 

 lake, to Owego, from 500 to 700 sleighs : there are 

 now at Owego (March 10th) about 9500 tons of plas- 

 ter; and 2500 barrels of salt ; — to transport these to 

 market will require 200 arks, which will cost about 

 100 dollars each. Plaster, the arks given in, is about 

 20 dollars per ton at Ovrego ; and the salt itself will 

 bring 6 dollars per barrel, making in the whole, 



9500 tons of plaster, at 20 dollars, jS 190,000 



2500 barrels of salt, at 6 dollars, 15,000 



9 arks, to carry salt, at 100 dollars, 900 



S 205,900 

 The oats consumed daily, allowing one bushel to 



each team, (many of them had from four to six horses,) 



would be 700 bushels. 



Cost of plaster at the bed, three to four dollars per 



ton. — Transportation to Owego, seven to eight dollars 



per ton. 



