LOCALITIES OF SALT SPRINGS. 



293 



been manufactured or collected as a crust on the surface 

 of the ground : 



Salt Brook . 

 Salt Point . 

 La Riviere Sale 



4. Salt Point . 



5. Turtle River 



6. Crane River 



7. Monkman's Salt Works.* 



8. Swan River 



9. West Coast of Winnipego-sis 



Lake in many places. 

 10. West Coast of Lake Manitobali 



in many places. 

 12. The Pas Mountain. 



Red River. 



Collected from incrustations 

 by tlie sides of springs. 

 These incrustations are often 

 two inches in thickness. 



Winnipego-sis Lake. 



Dauphin Lake — collected by 

 Indians. 



Manitobah Lake — collected 

 by Indians. 



Winnipego-sis Lake — manu- 

 factured by John Monkman. 



Manufactured for H. B. Co. 



It has been already stated that the processes employed 

 in the manufacture of salt in Rupert's Land are of the 

 rudest description. By the employment of simple artifices 

 the yield might be greatly increased, and its market value 

 reduced to one-fourth the price it brings at the settlements. 

 In the valley of La Riviere Sale, about twenty-six miles 

 from Fort Garry, springs issue from the sides of the hills 

 in positions very favourable for the employment of solar 

 evaporation in shallow basins, which might be excavated 

 at a lower level than the spring, and salt extracted 

 without the employment of artificial heat ; an immense 



* The bottom of the evaporating pans at Monkman's Works contained 

 a thin stratum of an extremely hard substance, which subsequent examina- 

 tion showed to consist of silica, a little sulphate of lime, and a very 

 considerable quantity of bromides. 



u 3 



