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the cheapest and most largely used of any. Taking the 
price of common salt as a standard, the other salts as a rule 
vary according to the following table. When prices rule 
high the difference increases, and when they rule low it is 
rather less, but on the average the prices here given may be 
considered the usual ones. 
With common as the standard: s. d. 
Butter, or unstoved boiled salt, is 1 6 per ton more. 
Shoots, or broken stoved boiled salt... 3 0 „ „ 
Handed squares stoved salt 5s. to 6 0 „ ,, 
Fishery or coarse salt (according to 
quality) Is. 6d. to 5 0 „ „ 
Bay salt and refined table salt being made only in very 
small quantities fetch prices not regulated by any other 
qualities, varying from 80s. to 50s. per ton. 
The following table will show the fluctuations in common 
salt or the standard salt, for ten years 
Average price. 
Per ton. 
s. d. 
Highest, 
s. d. 
Lowest, 
s. d. 
1871 ..... 
.... 6 
1 .... 
..... 7 
0 
6 
0 
1872 
.... 12 
4 .... 
..... 20 
0 
7 
0 
1873 
.... 14 
8 .... 
..... 15 
0 .... 
12 
0 
1874 
.... 10 
0 .... 
12 
0 .... 
8 
0 
1875 
.... 8 
6 .... 
9 
0 .... 
6 
6 
1876 
.... 6 
5 .... 
. ... 8 
0 .... 
5 
0 
1877 
.... 5 
6 .... 
7 
0 .... 
..... 4 
6 
1878 
.... 6 
6 .... 
7 
0 .... 
5 
0 
1879 
.... 5 
6 .... 
7 
0 .... 
4 
6 
1880 
.... 5 
6 .... 
6 
6 
4 
6 
During 1881 the price has been, on the average, only 
4s. 9d. ; and stoved salts for India have ruled lower than at 
any former period. 
It would be interesting to point out the various kinds of 
salt made, the purposes for which made, and the countries 
to which sent— also to show the bearing of the salt trade 
upon the general trade of the country, and more especially 
upon the shipping trade of Liverpool. This, however, must 
be left for another paper, if thought desirable. 
The most remarkable feature in connection with the 
manufacture of salt is the extensive subsidence of land, and 
the great destruction of property caused by it. In mining 
the rock salt in the usual way, that is by blasting and pick- 
ing, an ordinary mine is formed subject to the usual mining 
