The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], A mine of Nitre.

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A mine of Nitre.

Santa Cave, in Jackson county, Alabama, is said to be second only, in extent and vastness, to the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.--Santa Cave has exhaustless deposits of Sulphate of Nitre. During the war of 1812, it yielded its proprietors two or three hundred dollars worth of nitre per day — they having several hundred hands employed in their work. It has been worked on a small scale till very recently.

We are assured that the dirt which yields the nitre is abundant and rich, but more difficult of access than formerly.

It might be well for an agent, either of the Government or of capitalists, to examine this rich mine. It is situated a few miles from Jacksonville depot, on the Charleston and Memphis Railroad, in Jackson county, Alabama.

The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 9, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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A mine of Nitre.