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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 262 262 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 188 188 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 79 79 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 65 65 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 51 51 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 35 35 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 28 28 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 21 21 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 18 18 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 17 17 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The salt works of the Confederate States. (search)
l article. According to reports of the Treasury, this importation of salt was about 13,000,000 of bushels during the year 1854-55, and during 1855-56 it has been 15,405, 864 bushels. In the following years, 17,000,000 of bushels have been imported,e yearly manufactured; 5,000,000 by boilers, and about 1,000,000 by solar evaporation. When I went, near the close of 1854, to visit this splendid laboratory of human skill, I asked the producing price of the article. "It varies in some places ow, as it would take too long to give you my secret, I prefer to reason with your official reports. In the last report of 1854, (page 14,) Prof. Cook, appointed by Syracuse itself, tells you that about three-fourths of the evaporating power is lost ected advice for American consumers, and especially for the Southern men who are consuming only foreign salt! In the year 1854-55, Cadiz shipped to the United States 580,400 bushels of sea salt; and, in 1855-56, Spain, from the Atlantic to the Medit