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The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Uprising in the West--Salt manufacture — the Conscript law. (search)
ed for the wives of the soldiers. Old Rip Van Winkle (North Carolina) had a similar contract, (except that she paid seventy five cents instead of fifty cents,) and was also manufacturing in fine style for her poor citizens. Tennessee was fast erecting works, and Alabama will commence in a few days. The city of Richmond has contracted for twelve thousand bushels, one thousand to be delivered every month. Half of these works were sold for $450,000, and bought by a half Yankee and half Virginia Yankee company. They profess to sell the salt at one dollar per bushel, but you can buy so little that it is not worth going after. If you drive two horses to your wagon you can buy two bushels or a bushel for each horse you drive, and yet, by some means, you can buy from professed outsiders a large quantity, provided you will pay from $10 to $12 per bushel for it. I saw a woman who had come fifty miles, riding one of the wagon horses, and driving the wagon she could only get two bushels of