Piotr Nater
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Notwithstanding the immense amount already quarried, and it will be better understood when I state that the aggregate length of the shafts and galleries amounts to four hundred and twenty miles, it is estimated that at the present rate of exploitation, the known supply cannot be exhausted.
lasted under three hundred years.
The tripartite treaty on the partition of Poland limits Austria to the production of the present amount, one million five hundred thousand hundred weight annually, of which she is bound to furnish three hundred thousand hundred weight to Prussia and eight hundred thousand to Russia, leaving four hundred thousand for herself.
This sum yields her a net revenue from the mines of two millions of florins one million dollars annually.
It is not known how this wonderful deposit, more precious than gold itself, was originally discovered.
We know that it was worked in the twelfth century, and perhaps much earlier.
The popular faith has invented several miracles to account for it, giving the merit to favourite saints, and
One which is gravely published in the History of Krakow states that a Polish king, who would a Princess Elizabeth of Hungary, not the Saint of the Wardburg, in the tenth century, asked what she would choose as a bridal gift from him, to which she replied something that would most benefit his people.
The marriage ceremony was performed in a chapel in one of the salt mines of Transylvania.
Soon after being transferred to Krakow, Elizabeth went out to Velichka, surveyed the ground, and after choosing a spot, commanded the people to dig.
In the course of a few days they found a salt crystal, which the queen caused to be set in her wedding ring, and wore until the day of her death.
She must have been a wonderful geologist for those days.
The bed actually follows the Carpathians, appearing at intervals in small deposits into Transylvania, where there are extensive mines.
It is believed also that it stretches northward into Russian Poland.
Some years ago the Bank of Warsaw expanded large sums in boring for salt near the Austrian frontier.
There was much excitement and speculation for a time, but although the mineral was found, the cost of quarrying it was too great, and the enterprise was dropped.
On our return, we visited Franz Joseph's hall, a large salt ballroom, with well executed statues of Vulcan and Neptune, and
Six large chandeliers, apparently of cut glass, but really of salt, illuminated on festive occasions, and hundreds of dancers perspire themselves into a pretty pickle.
When we had reached the upper galleries, we decided to ascend to daylight by means of windlass.
The Prussian party went first, and the ladies were not a little alarmed at finding themselves seated in rope slings, only supported by a band.
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