IN SENATE, January 12, 1833. REPORT Of the Superintendent and Inspector of the Onondaga Salt Springs. SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE, To the Presidant of the Senate. SIR } I have the honor herewith to transmit to the Honorable the Senate, the annual report required from the Superintendent and Inspector of Salt in the county of Onondaga. With respect, I am your obd't. servant. NEHEMIAH H. EARLL. [Senate No. 16.] 1 REPORT, &c. To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New-York. In obedience to the sixteenth section of Chapter ninth, Title tenth of part first of the Revised Statutes, the undersigned, the Superintendent and Inspector of the Salt Springs in the county of Onondaga, do RESPECTFULLY REPORT: That during the year 1832, there has been 1,625,985 bushels of salt inspected in the town of Salina, as follows, to wit: The same was inspected during the year, in the several months Total,... 866,836 40 293,034 52 291,158 25 201,956 28 The manufactories are substantially the same as at the time of our last annual report, although there have been erected during the past year two or three new manufactories, and the same number have gone to decay. The public works or pumps for the raising of salt water, are now in good repair in the village of Salina. The steam pump purchased of Joseph Jaquith and others, in the summer of 1831, was not required during the last summer by the State to raise water for the use of the village of Liverpool. In the fore part of the last season permission was given by the Superintendent to Messrs. Brown and Paddock, to occupy the same, for the purpose of making coarse salt, on their stipulating to surrender the possession thereof in as good repair as when by them taken, to the said Superintendent whenever requested. They made some improvements by adding some vats. Shortly after they put the works in operation, they had the misfortune to burst the steam boiler; in the bursting of which the small edifice in which it was placed was demolished. It is believed it will be unnecessary to rebuild the same, as the pumps at Salina are abundantly sufficient to raise the salt water or brine required for the villages of Salina, Liverpool and Syracuse. In the month of May last, a contract was made to rebuild the water wheel, and to make the machinery for propelling the pump at the village of Geddes; the same is to be done on a more simple plan. It was expected that the materials would be prepared during the past summer, (which expectation has been realised,) and the work to be completed during the present winter, at a time less inconvenient for the manufacterers to suspend their operations, than any other season of the year. The mechanic, Mr. James J. Rice, is now engaged in completing the same, and it is confidently expected that it will be finished and again in operation previous to the first of March next. The amount collected and now collecting for the raising of salt water during the past year, is $3,305.97, and the amount expended during the same time in tending the pumps and keeping the same in repair, amounts to $1,992.51, including the amount now expended in rebuilding the works at Geddes. The amount now paid Mr. Rice, on his contract for the said work at Geddes, being $750. NEHEMIAH H. EARLL. |