Early History Of The Salt Manufacture by Hildreth, S. P., of Marietta, Ohio - 1836

Cincinnati: J. A. James & Company, 1836. Book. Good. Soft cover. 4to. 2pp extract, a single leaf, printed in double columns, light foxing, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Family Magazine, Volume I, Number V, May, 1836. From the text, "In the year 1794, Joseph Ruffner, of Shenandoah County, Virginia, bought a tract of five hundred and two acres, including the buffalo-lick; and in 1795, he moved his family on to the Kenhawa. But little was done towards making salt, until the year 1807, when David and Joseph Ruffner, sons of Joseph, bought a tract of land a little above the buffalo-lick and commenced their operations about one hundred yards above the lick,where there was no appearance of salt water." Housed in protective mylar report cover..