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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Southwestern Virginia. (search)
dy" will receive the coldest sort of a shoulder! I would, therefore, advise the general adoption of this plan. In every community there are persons who can furnish the money, and an agent can be dispatched to make the necessary arrangements. The present yield of he mine is too thousand bushels per day. An extra ordinary effort is being made to enlarge its capacity to five thousand bushels, which will be accomplished, it is said, by Christmas; so those who have to feed their hogs till January and February need not despair. It is no wonder that herculean endeavors should be made to increase the supply of salt, for I am told that fifteen hundred dollars is the daily income of the proprietors. This is too much money for any set of men to be making during the war, and the State authorities should take steps immediately to obtain possession of the mines and furnish salt to needy thousands at prime cost. I have obtained several interesting facts, in connection with Abingdon, wh