Chairman. the fact that the cheaper salt from England pays scarcely any freight. As a rule it is shipped to this country as ball ast. Steamships arriving on our Southern coasts use as a rule nothing but salt as ballast. and they take it for almost nothing. as our vessels on theAtlantic coast take wheat for nothing. or very little. as they have done in the past (when they have arrived in this country with a load of immigrants). as areturn ballast. In the same way these vessels bring the salt from Liverpool as ballast. This necessarily makes it very much cheaper. and gives these shippers abetter opportunity to send the salt into the interior than if they paid the freight on it to our Southern coast.
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