STA1 HLOGIST 17.-; 



inc.-. m the unparalleled strength of the brine o\ the 



Saginaw valley, the position, surrounded by forests, which must 

 cheapen to the las th i nils and fuel, and 



up mi the imnn e of navigable waters stretching from 



», is Buch able 'is to compete »u 



fully wiih any other source of supply to the western and north- 

 w< Btern v 



s :tual cost of producing s barrel of salt at oith^r 



of the points at which the manufacture has been commenced, I 



am nol iu ta to enable me to Bpeak defi« 



nitely. At w, as I am authentically informed, wood of 



. "hard" and "soft,") can be delivered for 



per cord, a use, experiments have nhown that 



i* haul wood will produce, in blocks of 50 <>r GO k«*t- 



."■:; bushels of salt. Assuming, as is 



186, that two hard WO d are worth three 



ft, the cost of hard wood at Saginaw should be $1 GoG. 

 Reckoning .';) bushels to a cord <>!' wood, this would make the 

 : 1 031 per bushel, or $0 155 per barrel 



of sail. If 01 - is capable of producing but 40 



barrel per day, and the services of six men, at $1 00 



per da; attend thom, the element of labor enter- 



ing in barrel is $0 15. At Syracuse barrels 



: _ i and I Bee u i reason why they cannot be 



prodi. much less than th rinaw. lam informed, 



the low< fife red are 27 cents per barrel. 



I admitted r, that this is lor a superior article At 



nks of the I. : uaw company, where it ia 

 I v manufactured, it is reliably aim 



that not more than have !>.•■ n expended in b 



and deepest < {' wh oh lias not ;• 



ne hall' this sum has hern e.v. 



boring the well now in use, and that capital is wortli 10 per 

 c , the annual iut a the investment is $1,S 



o $o lot per barrel of Bait produced. Should the 



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