Saginaw Salt

The'sftlt busiot'HS of the t?aginaw Vu! Jey daring tbc past seaBou, 9 tlius statec by the Courier : Tiie salt business of the p&st season hns'not boen rs satisfactory as it migh hav? been. Ao arrangeiient was madu early in the sansón by tho assooiation licre with the Onondaga Company, bu for soine r?asóii or other the arrange ment did not work ns expected, and tht market in consecjuence, has been nmch depressed, niiny corupanies it isclaimed losing inoney. The salea durinc the on have averafjed about $1 23 to $1 25 per bbl. or h very littlo in exc'fs of the average cost of manufacture. Freigfatf dnring the eaon have been from 80 to 35 cpnti to Chicago and 30 to 40 ceuti to Oliio and Lnke Ene poris. A nuuiber of new hlocks wnnt nto operstion tliis year, liut ts n rule works huve not avenigod bcttor tlian Isst year. The qualh; luis been much injpri'd unuer u ri{?i') Hts inspectióQ. Last year about 60000(1 barrels of silt wro manufaotured. Tlns jear the amount will probably reacli 650,000 barrels. The report of the State Inspentor shows about t'iis increnfe The diöition of sa 't this yeic is ubout as follows : Tok-do 80,000 and 55,000 Sandusky 20,000 Detroit 10,000 Baffalo , 10,000 :: (about) 300,000 HIlTraukee 86, ÜCherLake Michigan poíta 85,000 Homesalos (say) 50,000 Shipmeuts have b?eu mnde by the ao(oeiation to Jíacñne, Grand Haven, Mackinaw, Oreen Bay and l)u!utli, somo 5,000 barrels to the latter place. Milwaukce bas not received a tnuch salt as last season Chicago about the sarrio. One cnuse wbicli opcrated to the injury of the Sngii'.'iw s:ilt nisrket this aeaaon, is the fact tbnt the Kauawha alli' lalt manufacturen beid over a large qtiantity of salt during the winter of 1809-70, iiic'i in the prini tliey threw uto Toledo and Ohio rnaikets.