. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . brought to the surface for evaporation. The salt well, through which the brine is brought to the surface, consists, when com-pleted, of a straight hole in the ground, something like 800 feet in depth. This well, about eight inches in diameter, has an iron casing from lopto bottom, except where it passes through an immense stratum of red sandst
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . brought to the surface for evaporation. The salt well, through which the brine is brought to the surface, consists, when com-pleted, of a straight hole in the ground, something like 800 feet in depth. This well, about eight inches in diameter, has an iron casing from lopto bottom, except where it passes through an immense stratum of red sandstone. Within this casing stands an iron tube three inches in tube is connected at the surface with a force pump. The pump, drawing fresh water from a well adjoining, forces it through the tubing to theTock salt below. There being no underground outlet for this water when it strikes the salt, it becomes brine and is forced to return to the surfacein the jacket inclosing the tubing, and is thence forced into reservoir tanks, whence it is drawn off into the evaporating pans as needed ; andit is found to have been transformed, during its trip below, from pure, sweet water to a brine of full saturation, owing to the constant dissolving of. THE HUTCHINSON SALT COMPANYS PLANT, HUTCHINSON. (110) tte salt. The evaporating pans are usually 80 feet long, 36 feet wide and one footdeep. They are made of the best steel, and rest on great furnaces, whence they re-?ceive a direct heat of high degree. The brine is kept boiling from one years endto another, except when the plant is shut down for repairs. At intervals of twohours, workmen armed with long-handled hoes draw the constantly-forming saltto the sdes of the pan. There it is shoveled into carts and wheeled away to thewarehouses, where it is barreled, after having gone through a curing process of?two to four weeks. Between the reservoir tanks and the evaporating pans, how-ever, it should not be forgotten that the brine passes
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