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“Destruction
of a salt manufactory on the coast of Florida by the crew of the US Bark Kingfisher…extensive
salt-works at the town of St. Joseph, making from 100 to 150 bushels a day, and
not yet completed. [500 if completed, below]
We
sent a flag of truce, and politely informed them that they must stop, or we should
destroy them. They paid no attention to
us, but continued their fire day and night. … in less than two hours the whole
place was in flames, and the machinery broken up.
The
whole coast of Florida is lined with these works of a smaller size. This one,
when finished, would have been capable of making five hundred bushels a day, at
$10 per bushel.”©2014 Patricia Bixler Reber
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