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The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The salt works of the Confederate States. (search)
salt works near Charleston, or the entrance of Savannah river; for the merchandize made from the sea-brine, and by natural evaporation, has always taken the lead of the market as the best kind of salt for curing beef, pork, cheese, and other provisions which constitute the wealth of the Western farmers. The State of Tennessee will be certainly supplied in this way with the Atlantic salt from Georgia or South Carolina, instead of the Turk's Island salt, carried from New Orleans up the Mississippi river. New Orleans itself, which is now importing yearly more than 4,000,000 of bushels, will retain, by a domestic manufacture of the article, all the profits of the foreign producers, and will increase yearly the wealth of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, by saving an importing sum of about one million of dollars. But these advantages are not to be compared to that of having indefinite quantities of salt at hand for agricultural purposes.--For manuring the cotton field, for insta