Chemical analysis of Louisiana rock salt, and certificates of packers.

  • Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Chemical analysis of Louisiana rock salt, and certificates of packers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    V'c call lhe attention of Merchants and Tachers to the folloiving conclusive evidence of the superiority of the LOUISIANA ROCK SALT, for which 7ve a?'c now prepared to receive orders. For particulars as to price and transportation, apply to PRICE, HINE & TUPPER, GEN’L AGENTS, 2(> Carondelet Street, New Orleans. The Louisiana Lock Salt is now being mined and prepared for mar- ket by Messrs. Chouteau & Price, under a lease from Hon. 1). ]). Avery, the owner of Petite Anse Island. The Island of Petite Anse is situated in Southern Louisiana, on the Bayou Petite Anse, at a point 6 miles from the North shore of Vermillion Bay, (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico,) 160 miles West of the South West Pass of the Mississip- pi River. Prom the mouth of the Petite Anse Bayou to the S.W. Pass of Vermil- lion Bay, (its entrance from the Gulf,) is 15 miles, within which is an excellent land locked harbor whore vessels draw- ing 8 feet may discharge and receive cargo at all seasons in perfect security. Nine miles North, (inland,) from the Salt Island, is the flourishing and rapid- ly improving town of New Iberia, situa- ted on the left bank of the Bayou Tcche, which is a line stream, navigable at all seasons for vessels of 150 to 200 tons bur- den. New Iberia is in daily communi- cation with the City of New Orleans via Brashear City 65 miles and 145 miles re- spectively. Transit is by steamers to the latter, and thence by the Morgan Louisiana and Texas Railroad. St. Lours, June 28, 1569. Chas. P. Choutkau, Esq., St. Louis, Mo. Dear Sir: Excuse that I have not sooner report- ed on the comparative solubility of the Louisiana Rock, the Turks’ Island and Liverpool Coarse and Dairy Salts, but having been prevented to attend to the observations of the first set of experi- ments on the very day when the solu- tion of the Salts were completed, I have been obliged to commence another se- ries of experiments, at 7 A. M., June 14th. It was considered advisable to reduce part of the Rock Salt from Louisiana to the same degree of fineness, the Liver- pool Coarse and Dairy possess, in order