4 On the Muriate of Soda, or Common Salt. 



atary of the Wabash. Salt springs are worked at Sciota ; the 

 quantity yielded, however, is comparatively small. There are 

 no salt works on the Tennessee river, but on the Holston, a tri- 

 butary to the Tennessee river, are extensive salt springs, situ- 

 ated near Abingdon, Virginia, 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 

 bushel. King's wells have produced on a lease of five years, 

 an annual rent of $60,000, or $300,000 for the term of five 

 years. Preston's works have been rendered much less valu- 

 able by being diluted with fresh water, caused by a spring of 

 fresh water flowing in the midst of the salt. 



Kentucky furnishes numerous salt works. On the Big and 

 Little Sandy rivers are salt works in operation ; they aflford, 

 however, a weak brine, and are on the decline, in conse- 

 quence of the reduced price of salt, 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 prospects of increasing. 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 river, are very extensive works ; these, and 

 the springs on Green river, might support works aftbrding 

 inexhaustible quantities of salt ; the price at the works is fifty 

 cents per bushel. 



In 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- 

 gum, and Yellow creek; the price of salt at these works is 

 fifty cents per bushel. 



In Illinois, on Saline river, near Shawneetown, are exten- 

 sive salt works, formerly owned by the United States : they 

 are now the property of the state. The price of salt at the 

 works is fifty cents per bushel. 



In Virginia, on the Great Kanawha, are very extensive 

 -salt works. The quantity furnished is about one million 

 bushels* per annum, and may be increased to almost any 



* It is stated in the last edition of Professor Cleaveland's Mineralogy, that the 

 whole amount of salt obtained in the United States, is one million bushels per 

 annum. This must be very far short of the present annual product, as the 

 Kanawha works alone furnish this amount. 



