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salt-ffty-five gallons, at Salina, and m moi inc most profitable springs, yield the same quantity. The brine from some of the springs is strong, nearly to saturation.- Mir. Spencer. the State Superintendent, klnd-

 ly accompanied me to one of the houses, m

 which they were still boring. The pipes m

 this we'll had already been sunk to the ueP!n

 of two hundred and sixty feet, and the work"

 men were boring still deeper. At nlgnT'

 Iht.v cease their operations, and pump in

 neighboring building, connected with the

 wCil. m,mps up about 6O,OOO gallons from

 ,his one spring, to be boiled down to saIt.- When we. entered, the workmen had just

 concluded that they had struck upon solid

 rock. but the superintendent bade them take heart. and believe it was gravel. They

 drew up the long drill, 260 feet long, un- screwing it piece by piece, at every l6 feet, and let down upon a rope an iron bucket, made at the top like wire mouse-traP, and with piston and valve above, for the pur- pose of pumping up the gravel or stone which they had lOosened. After working the pump for ten or fifteen minutes they drew up the bucket, and emptied from 1t, as the fruit of some hours labor, a pint of gravel. Thus the work is very slow, advancing by

 inches only. Pipes are sunk as fast as the we'll is bored, a foot or two in external di- ameter, and sometimes of iron :; those which | saw were of rock maple. The whole house, in which the spring is opened, say hfteen feet square by as many in height, rests upon m iron chain, of course ot large size, and that chain upon the top of the descending pipe. SO as to force it downward as fast as the earth is bored away. The boring was an interesting process. One man lifts the long drill by a lever like pump-handlc, and so great n length of pole is sufficient in weight to strike down again with requisite force.

 Two wells have been opened this last sea son. The state has tried the experiment ot

 sinking a we'll to the depth of six hundred feet, for the purpose of finding fossil sGn' which it is supposed must be found' as It IS found in localities in other countries, where salt springs abound, and where the strata of the soil and its composition are the same as at Salina. The experiment at Sallna has as yet been without success. Still 1t may prove successful; for in Europe borings have been made to the depth of 75O. and in one place to 900 feet, and at these depths the salt was found. ....-.-.- The Springs at Salina and Syracuse are inc property of the state. The state bores the wells, pumps the water up to elevated 1 reservoirs, and supplies it to any who may wish to make salt; receiving in return 5 or cents per bushel after the salt is made.- Thus is received an income to the state o1 more than $2O0OOO year. The salt is made by solar evaporation, and by boiling. Acres of ground are covered with vats. The water contains, besides muriate of soda, 1 (comrnon salt) little sulphate and carbo- nate of lime, and some magnesia, so that t IS possible that other products, by and by, may be made from these treasures from the bo- som of the earth. ..ls. 5 @