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Proposals for establishing a salt company at Key West : accompanied with certificates and documents from persons of great respectability, elucidating the great advantages to be derived by manufacturing salt by solar evaporation at that island, &c., &c.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Salt industry and trade--Florida--Key West.
- Salt industry and trade.
- Industries--Florida--Key West.
- Industries.
- La Fayette Salt Company.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([3], 4-27, [1] p. )
- Other Title:
- Proposals for establishing a salt company at Key West
- Place of Publication:
- Washington [D.C.] : Printed by E. de Krafft, 1830.
- Notes:
- Possibly compiled by William Frean, to whom many of the communications are addressed.
- Last page contains "Remarks" by J.W. Simonton, an entrepreneur in the Key West salt industry. Pages 7-11 contain his "An exposition of the advantages to be derived from making salt, by solar evaporation, at Key West," from the Key West Register, March 5, 1829, also published in pamphlet form in 1829.
- Includes "An act to incorporate the La Fayette Salt Company of Key West," passed by the Florida legislature in November, 1829 (p.4-7).
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 66030.
- Contains:
- Florida. Legislature. Act to incorporate the La Fayette Salt Company of Key West.
- OCLC:
- 11
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