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furt  salt  industry  tells  us,  as  may  be  read  from  the  most  excellent 
work  on  this  industry  by  Dr.  G.  Krause.1  Already  in  the  days  of 
the  great  Charlemagne,  the  region  about  the  town  of  Stassfurt  was 
noted  for  its  salt  springs.  Salt,  common  salt,  was  obtained  from 
these  waters  by  boiling  down  to  crystallization.  So  important  did 
this  industry  become  in  time  that  the  landed  owners  and  salt 
1<4Die  Industrie  von  Stassfurt  und  Leopoldshall."  Cothen,  1877.  The  author 
is  the  founder  of  the  greatest  chemical  paper  of  the  world:  Chemiker  Zeitung. 
