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which woukl cost about two millions of dollars for the vats alone, 

 which is a large sum of money for capitalists to invest at a time when 

 the provisions of the tariff remain so unsettled in the public mind as 

 to pr(i])able permanency. 



Taking into account the cost or rental of the ground, the interest 

 of the capital invested in the vats, and the wages of the men em- 

 ployed, it is evident that the manufacture of solar salt can be profita- 

 bly and extensively carried on in the United States, and that as much 

 salt can be made at a low price as will be required for the consump- 

 tion of the people, if a moderate duty like that of the present tariff 

 is continued. 



The samples ol" salt which are exhibited at the Fair of the Ameri- 

 can Institute, will compare in quality with the same descriptions of 

 salt from any part of the world. 



The sample of Onondaga county solar salt is from the works of 

 Messrs. Henry Gifford & Co. of Syracuse. This salt is equal in qua- 

 lity to the Turk's Island salt. Messrs. Henry Gifford & Co. through 

 the State superintendant of salines, Mr. Spencer, have authorized me 

 to say that they will deliver the best Onondaga solar salt at the 

 wharves in the city of New-York, by the boat load, at 31 cents the 

 measured bushel. 



The sample of Onondaga common fine salt is from the works of Mr. 

 W. K. Blair. This salt will answer all the purposes for which Liv- 

 erpool fine salt is used. It is now sold at the salines at five cents per 

 bushel. Some sales have been made at the salines at four cents per 

 bushel, but these are ruinOus prices. A state duty of six cents is to 

 be added to this price, which will bring it to eleven cents per bushel. 

 If this salt is brought to the banks of the Hudson river, the State duty 

 is remitted, which debenture will equal the cost of freight, so that it 

 can be delivered at Albany at eleven cents per bushel, to which is to 

 be added the freight from Albany to New-York. This, it will be 

 borne in mind, is the price in bulk. If packed in barrels, the cost 

 will be increased about four cents per bushel, and in bags about nine 

 cents per bushel. 



The Liverpool fine salt which is brought to the United States, is 

 packed in bags of 224 pounds each, which is equal to four bushels. 

 Ten of these sacks make one ton, and costs, delivered on board ship 

 at Liverpool, near one pound sterling per ton. The sacks cost fifteen 

 pence sterling each, which is 12s. 6d. per ton in addition. To this 

 is to be added, difference in exchange, freight, insurance and duties. 

 The last sales of Liverpool salt were from $1 .57 to $1.60 per sack, 

 equal to thirty-nine to forty cents per bushel, including sack. The 

 Onondaga works should be furnished with stove rooms, for depriving 

 the salt of all the moisture which it is possible to divest it of, by heat. 



The sample of dairy salt is from the works of Messrs. D. M. Bur- 

 nett & Co. This salt is solar salt ground, and in point of quality is 

 superior to most foreign table salt, as will be readily seen by com- 

 parison. 



The fine table salt is from the works of Mr. S. W. Caldwell. This 

 salt is made by slow terrestrial heat, by boiling the salt water in the 



