184 85 Clerks Contingencies 3,400 00 357 53 Samuel Thomas, inspector 2d brigade, 8th division, salary 475 00 5,157 53 Disbursements committee state library William Musgrave, state librarian Cameron & Krause, for printing laws for 1826-7 460 00 Ephraim B. Gerould, inspector 2d brigade, 9th division, salary 375 00 190 00 Disbursements 806 29 1,181 29 2,288 76 James Trimble, deputy secretary money expended for carriage of the laws 88 69 185 29 John Myers, for carriage of laws 150 00 Andrew Bowman, do 10.00 Elias Beidleman, do 280 00 Disbursements 231 86 Thomas Finney, do 100 00 429 71 No. 3. Caleb B. Campbell, late inspector 2d brigade 11th division, salary 150 00 MILITIA EXPENSES. Geo. B. Porter, adjutant general, salary Jacob Bahn, inspector 2d brigade, 11th divi sion, salary 134 10 625 00 Daniel Sharp, inspector 1st brigade 1st di David Fore, inspector 1st brigade, 12th division, salary 300 00 vision, salary 650 00 Disbursements 154 91 Thomas Snyder, inspector 2d brigade 1st di 454 91 vision, salary 599 00 Samuel A. Smith, inspector 1st brigade 2d division, salary 200 00 Thomas M'Quaide, inspector 1st brigade, Christian Snyder, inspector 2d brigade 2d 13th division, salary 375 00 division, salary 200 00 Disbursements 66 41 Joseph Eniex, inspector 2d brigade, 13th division, salary 312 50 266 41 Disbursements 149 90 Nathaniel Brooke, inspector 1st brigade 3d 462 40 division, salary 150 00 Disbursements 581 61 John Filson, inspector 2d brigade 3d division, salary 829 97 325 00 Lot Lantz, inspector 2d brigade, 14th divi George B. Porter, inspector 1st brigade 4th sion, salary 337 50 division, disbursements 2 61 Disbursements 380 77 Nathaniel W. Sample, inspector 2d brigade 718 27 4th division, disbursements 149 00 Michael Doudel, inspector 1st brigade 5th division, salary 250 00 Disbursements 738 95 Disbursements 189 09 1,138.95 439 09 Thomas C. Miller, inspector 2d brigade 5th division, salary 275 00 Disbursements 821 27 Disbursements 318 33 1,166 90 593 33 584 71 698 44 Disbursements 981 38 1,533 88., division, salary 350 00 Disbursements 512 94 862 94 John Cromer for carriage of arms George B. Porter, for carriage of military property from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, per act of 1st April 1826 207 08 591 34 Ditto for postage on letters, &c. 186 37 Joseph Wilt, inspector 2d brigade 7th division, salary 393 45 Disbursements 275 00 99 30 John Ford for cleaning and repairing public arms 704 121 374 30 Jacob Doll, for 41 37 John Baldy, late inspector 1st brigade 8th George W. Tryon do. do. 1,208 66 division, salary 123 00 William Barrett for colours Disbursements 842 02 John W. Salter do. 965 02 E. G. Nelson do. 158 25. 150 00 100 00 1828.] PENNSYLVANIA SALT. zens of this state, for the non-performance of militia duty during the late war with Great Britain, passed the 1st April 1825 George B. Porter, the amount appropriated per act of 25th Feb. 1826, for the purchase of a sword for Capt. Conner Commissioners of Warren county to aid them in erecting public buildings, per act of 8th April 1826 Wm. Courtney, James Adams and Thomas Foster, commissioners for improving the navigation of Ohio river, for daily pay Charles Shaler, esq. for professional services in the case of the Commonwealth vs. P. Neville 24 00 400 00 1,197 43 597 00 50 00 serving process 2.55 Frederick Smith, Esq. for collecting public William Jaggers, for bringing a fugitive from justice 52 37 3 71 20 00 Cameron & Krause, for printing a certificate book for stock loan of 1827 17 00 Thomas M. Pettit, Esq. for professional ser vices 50 00 John Thompson, jr. for do John T. Brown, for bringing a fugitive from justice do James Mackey, for do do. 24 00 116 25 92 70 John H. Wise, for services as commissioner examining the penitentiary near Pittsburg Thomas Courtney and James Wood, officers of the 1st brigade, 6th division, for transportation of baggage, per act of the 6th April 1825 45 00 Ross Wilkins, Esq. for collecting public 98 00 42 00 5,551 66 Archibald Flemming, for bringing a fugitive Do. for serving summons on J. Aughinbaugh William Ward, for examining the concerns of the North Western Bank James P. Bull, M'Carty & Davis, for 75 copies of Purdon's Digest, per resolution of 12th February and 20th March, 1827 Thomas Henry, commissioner for examining and inspecting penitentiary near Pittsburg Hugh M'Clelland, tax on Peter Baynton's land Commissioners of Venango county, tax on donation land, per act of 27th March 1819 Samuel Douglas, Esq. for professional ser vices in the case of the Commonwealth vs. G. Heister John Smith, for bringing a fugitive from justice do do Solomon Sprigman, for a sett of books for 375 00 42 00 19 50 58 93 75 00 212 14 71 00 124 00 John Christian, for the commissioners of the internal improvement fund George W. Harris, deputy escheater, cost in the case of Wm. Wanless, dec. Wm. F. Boone, cost in the case of the escheated estate of Wm. Martin, dec. Charles Muench for binding laws of last ses 43 52 54 86 sion John Morton for bringing a fugitive from jus tice Samuel L. Douglass William Nixon Jabez Hyde, jr. George Scott and Asa Mann commissioners per act of 14th April 1827 John M'Clean for bringing a fugitive from justice Samuel M. Barclay, informant in the case of John B. Alexander, deputy escheater, costs do. N. P. Hobart, deputy escheater, costs in the escheated estate of Henry Bohn, dec. Alexander Taylor and others, for publishing the supplement to the act providing for the collection of fines assessed upon citi 62 80 PENNSYLVANIA SALT. The following information, elicited by the paper we lately published on Pennsylvania Salt, we have received from gentleman who is extensively engaged in this business, and who has therefore made it his study to become acquainted with all the various sources, whence supplies of this necessary article can be obtained. We consider it, therefore, a very valuable document, as conveying as correct an account as possible, of the present state of the manufacture of salt in this state and its capacity to extend it, as the increase of demand may render necessary. Mr. Hazard,-Sir, I have been reading the account in your paper of the 12th instant, taken from the report of the Society for Internal Improvement in Pennsylvania, on the Salt product of the western part of this state.That report spoke rather of the capacity of the state to produce this very necessary article, than of the amount now made. I wish you, therefore, to state more particularly what the resources of western Pennsylvania now are, or what quantity of Salt is now produced annually; and will thank you to insert the following hasty account of this valuable product, viz. There are upon the Kiskeminetas or Conemaugh river 30 wells, fitted up with furnaces and pans, and now making salt. These wells 270 32 produce on an average 2000 bbls. each, a year, amounting to 60,000 barrels, and at 56 pounds to the bushel and five bushels to the barrel, to 300,000 bushels. The capital invested in these works is about $100,000, includ52 00 ing lands and all the fixings. The salt costs about 90 cents a barrel of 280 lbs. including the barrel and pack44 87 ing. (This cost is ascertained by letting out the making of salt in many cases.) The cost, therefore, of the 95 79 60,000 barrels is 54,000 dollars, to which add the interest on capital of 100,000 dollars, say 6000 dols. and it makes This salt sells at the works at 21 45 just 60,000 dollars cost. 2 dols. per bbl. and when sent off the freight is added. If the wells and furnaces were all in good order and pushed, they can be made to produce 3000 barrels each, which would make the quantity 90,000 barrels, and the profits then would be greater, because the expenses would not keep pace with the increased amount. 14,000 dollars toll at the rates usually charged on the canals. There are besides the above 5 wells on the Allegheny river in operation, making about 7000 barrels a year; 3 wells on Monongahela producing 5000 barrels; 3 or 4 wells upon Sewickly creek, a branch of the Yohogany, producing 4000 barrels; 1 on Beaver making 1000 bbls. and 2 upon Chirtier's creek producing 2000 bushels.— The whole of the Salt now produced in western Pennsylvania is about 80,000 barrels, costing to make it 80,000 dollars. The salt is all made by rapid evaporation; of course chrystalizes fine; and is like the Liverpool salt. Solar evaporation is not adopted, the expense is too great for the profit. Coal is the only fuel used in the evaporation. This fuel costs nothing but the quarrying, about of a - cent per bush, and is run out, and down to the furnaces upon railways without any hauling. All the furnaces lean against the coal hills, in which are two strata of this with the progress of the settlements. The increase of SILK. There are 10 or 12 new wells preparing upon the KisObserving that an attempt is now making to encourage keminetas and Allegheny rivers, which will increase the the culture of the mulberry tree, and raising of silk amount produced in Pennsylvania to about 100,000 bar-worms; and with a desire to promote so laudable and rels each year. The cost of boring and fitting up a well with furnaces, pumps, pans and sheds, exclusively of the important an object, we communicate the few facts in lands, is about 2500 dollars. our possession exhibiting what has already been done in this state in former times. It appears, that so early as the year 1734, in consequence of the great difficulty of the merchants to pay for the immense amount of manufactures they were receiving from England, it was deemed an object worthy of the notice of the government, to solicit encouragement for those articles of domestic production which were "fit for returns directly to Great Britain;" and accordingly in a letter from Governor Gor. don (found in the minutes of council, Lib. 1, Oct. 31, 1734,) addressed to the "Lords' Commissioners for trade and plantations," after enumerating several articles, he has the following paragraph respecting the mulberry and fuel 4 or 5 feet thick and inexhaustible. The wells are from 400 to 550 feet deep, tubed with copper, in which are inserted a pump worked with a horse power; the water in all cases rising to the atmospheric or suck pump distance. The water is settled, or suffered to stand until the iron, magnesia, sulphur and lime are deposited. The cost of making the salt in bulk, without the bar-silkrel and packing, is 124 cents per bushel-to transport it through a canal to Philadelphia, will cost 25 cents per bushel, and to all the intermediate points, pro rata. It may be sent, therefore, to Philadelphia as soon as the Pennsylvania canals are finished. The capacity of the Kiskeminetas country to produce salt is no doubt very great. More wells may be bored, and instead of 300,000 bushels, one million may be produced; and will, as soon as the canals are completed and a new market opened through them, to the Susquehanna settlements of this state, and even to Philadelphia if the duty remains unchanged on foreign salt. The tolls upon a million of bushels of salt transported upon the Pennsylvania Canal, on an average of 120 miles, costing six cents a bushel upon the same average, will be 60,000 a year, which would be the interest upon 1,000,000 dls. nearly half the cost of the whole canal. The consumption of salt is 3 pecks a head to a given population. The western side of the Allegheny mountains consumes 2,000,000 bushels a year, not including the shores of Lake Erie or Michigan, and this vast amount of salt is derived from the following places, viz. Pennsylvania 400,000 bushels as we have just said. Virginia 700,000 do. 200,000 do. Do. Ohio Do. Illinois Indiana Missouri "The mulberry tree is, likewise, so natural to our soil, growing wild in the rich lands, and the silk worm thrives so well, that there is a distant prospect of some advances towards a silk manufacture, which, as it affords employment for the weakest hands, would be of the utmost advantage. Some amongst us have shewn how practicable a design of this kind is, by making some small quantities, not inferior, as I am informed, in goodness and fineness to the best from France or Italy; but perfrom the balls, which I understand to be the most diffisons are wanting to lead us into the way of winding it cult part of the work: but as in time this difficulty may be surmounted, I cannot but recommend likewise a manufacture of this kind, as deserving the greatest encouragement, since by the promotiug it, a valuable addition may be made to the trade of Great Britain." We have no further account until the 5th January, 1770, when the American Philosophical Society took up the subject, in consequence of a letter received by Dr. Evans from Dr. Franklin, then in Europe: a few of the members having previously made some experiments for their own satisfaction. Dr. Franklin with the letter, forwarded a French treatise on the management of silk worms, by the "Abbe Boissier de Sauvages," and proposed that a public filature be set up for winding the coccoons, and that some provision be made by the assembly for promoting the growth of mulberry trees; but the society thought the intention would be more effectu100,000 do. Illinois Saline and Vermil-ally answered by giving bounties and premiums on the Kenhawa. lion river. 50,000 do. Salt creek and Brookeville silk raised, than on the trees planted, as experience had proved in a neighbouring province, that many persons would plant the trees for the sake of the bounty, who would not raise silk worms. Accordingly a memorial was presented to the Assembly by the society, in which they propose: "1. That a public filature be established at Philadelphia, and afterwards at such other places in the province as may be thought necessary, for winding the cocoons. fered for sale at the filature. "3. That to encourage all persons to cultivate mulberry trees, raise silk worms, and bring their cocoons to the filature, the managers be impowered and enabled to pay for cocoons, during five years, the current price which cocoons of the like quality sell for in Georgia; and as a further encouragement to pay at the rate of 25 per cent. on the value for all cocoons raised in this province, and brought to the filature; and, besides the above encouragement, it is proposed as an inducement to raise large quantities of cocoons-to bestow the following yearly premiums, viz. for the year 1770, £15 to that person who shall raise and bring to the filature the greatest quantity of cocoons not less than 30,000, and £10 to that person who shall raise and bring the next greatest quantity not less than 20,000. In 1771, £15 for the greatest quantity not less than 40,000, and £10 for the next greatest quantity not less than 30,000. In 1772, £15 for the greatest quantity not less than 50,000, and £10 for the next greatest quantity not less than 40,000. In 1773, £15 for the greatest quantity not less than 60,000, and £10 for the next greatest quantity not less than 50,000; and in 1774, £15 for the greatest quantity not less than 70,000, and £10 for the next greatest quantity not less than 60,000. The above premiums are likewise to be limited to cocoons raised in this province.* "4. That to enable the managers to pay the aforesaid premiums, establish the filature, purchase cocoons and employ their servants, it seems necessary that a sum not less than £500 per annum should be appropriated during the aforesaid term of five years." SILK. Whether the Assembly ever provided the funds required, we do not know, but it appears, that they once adjourned without doing it; and the Society apprehending that if "the ensuing season were suffered to pass without doing something towards it, the present favourable disposition of the people might abate," it was resolved to make a beginning by subscription, by which means in a few days between 8 and £900 were raised; the Gov. John Penn himself subscribing £20. The other amounts were from £1 to 15, but principally £2. The following managers were then chosen, viz.-Dr. Cad. Evans, Israel Pemberton, Benjamin Morgan. Moses Bartram, Dr. Francis Alison, Dr. William Smith, John Rhea Samuel Rhoads, Thomas Fisher, Owen Biddle, Henry Drinker; Robert Strettell Jones, Managers, Edward Pennington, Treasurer. Their next step was to procure a suitable house for a filature, and to furnish it with the necessary machines and skilful persons to reel and wind the cocoons. The French directions were translated by J. Odell, one of the members at Burlington, and were published by the Society. Their next measure was to obtain the eggs of the silk worms from Georgia and Carolina, where considerable attention was paid to the subject, in the former of which states it was reckoned one of their staple commodities. In June 1770, the filature was opened, in Seventh-street between Market and Arch-streets, and it appears by an advertisement in the • It hath been thought proper, since drawing up this address, to extend the premiums to the adjacent provinces. Pennsylvania Chronicle, June 4, that the following prices and premiums were offered: "For sound and merchantable cocoons of the best "For ditto of the native or American worm 258. per quality from Italian or foreign silk worms 4s per lb. 1000 and proportionably for cocoons of inferior quality. A bounty to the inhabitants of this province of 25 per cent. on the value of all cocoons that may be purchased of them, over and above the price proposed as afore-` said. "1. Premium to that person in Pennsylvania, or the three lower counties on Delaware, or in the Jersies or Maryland, who shall before the first day of September next, raise within his or her family and sell at the filature the greatest quantity of sound cocoons not less than 30,000, the premium of £15. "2. To that person, &c. (as above) for next greatest quantity not less than 20,000, premium of £10. Both premiums to be exclusive of the above prices." In 1771 the following account (taken from the Amer. Museum, vol. iii. p. 87.) of the cocoons purchased at the filature in Philadelphia, was presented to the Legislature of New Jersey, from which it appears, that in that or to be wound, and that 1754 lbs. 4 oz. were purchased. year about 2300 lbs. were brought there, either for sale An account of the coccoons (or silk balls) purchased at the filature in Philadelphia, during the summer of the year 1771, taken from the original laid before the assembly of New Jersey, by the managers, in December, 1771. From June 25th, to July 3d, 1771. ditto John Roberts, Philadelphia county Edward Gibbs, Jersey Joseph Lippincott, do Moses Patterson, Kent on Delaware Grace Beale, Chester county William Hall, Philadelphia' Elizabeth Atkinson, Jersey 71lb. 8oz. 29 11 12 4 11 2 8 21 10 52 2 10 44 13 25 13 |