History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantages for business, manufacturing, etc. Pub. under the auspices of the Springfield board of trade, by J. C. Power.

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men from southern Missouri turned out and the imperfect apparatus for evapoin great numbers and flecked to Galena rating, the works have been abandoned,
also. The circumstance of suchnumbers except at Equality, in Saline county,
of unc outh men, coming up the river, where a small quantity is made. Prof.
was too suggestive to be lost. A face- Worthen thinks that with improved
tious Sucker" insisted that the Missou- methods for evaporation, it might be
ri lead mines had taken an emetic, and profitable to manufacture salt in Jackson
from that time the Missourians were county at the present time.
called "Pukes." These appellations have
IRON MINING.
been bandied back and forth in a goodnatured way to the present time, and Hardin is the only county in the State
ludicrous incidents sometimes occur in where iron has been mined and furnaces
the use of both. erected for smelting it from the ore. A
SALT SPRINGS furnace was built there in 1837, and anAre found in several localities in the other in 1848. Charcoal, made from the
southern portions of the State. In the heavy forests along the Ohio river, was
early settling of the country, when the used for smelting, and the iron produced
transportation of merchandize was diffi- commanded the highest price in the
cult, they were of great importance, and market. The furnace established in 1848
works for evaporating the water were was closed in 1857. The first one opened,
erected in Saline and Jackson counties, after being in operation twenty-four
and perhaps at some other points. In years, was closed in 1861, soon after the
consequence of the weakness of the brine breaking out of the rebellion.