Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — Where We Get Our Salt. [ARTICLE]

Where We Get Our Salt.

Balt is so common an article that one is astonished when he realises the amount of it produced in the United States during the year 1904. The number of barrels was 22,030,002, valued at $6,021,222. In spite of this enormous output, coming mostly from New York and Michigan, the United States Imported salt to tha value of over half a million dollars and exported 26,608,677 pounds, valued at $99,066. The deposits of salt lu the United States are not numerous, those In New York, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas and Louisiana being the only one* which are worked Commercially.—Boston Herald.