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VIRGINIA sALr-NAruRAL GAS WoRxs.--In
speaking ofthe natural gas used for boiling Salt
at the Saline Springs in the Kanawha Valley, the
Kanawha Republican says:


''The gas has sufficient power to force a col
,lmn Of water three inches in diameter from the
depth of thousand feet to the hight Of about
fifty feet above the surface of the earth. 1t is
then turned under the furnace ignited, and bols
the water till it is brought to the state for crys-
talzation, and then conveyed to the cisterns for
evaporation, generates the steam that passes
through the cisterns and produces the heat that
carries on the process of evaporation. Thus $50
bushels of salt of the first quality are made per
day, without one particle of other fuel but the gas
AT these works but one cistern is yet erected and
they are unable to use only one half of the water
that is forced up. Another is in progress of erec-
ton; when completed all the water will be used,
and 10 or 50 barrels of salt manufactured daily,
without coal, wood, or the rays of the SUM-