[388] Acts, Dec. 13, 1864, Acts of Ala., 2d Called and 1st Regular Sess. passim.
[389] Le Conte states that in 1863 he found the only Bessemer furnace in the Confederacy at Shelbyville; it was the first that he had ever seen. “Autobiography,” pp. 184-185. It was probably the first in America.
[390] O. R., Ser. IV, Vol. III, p. 3.
[391] Miller, pp. 179, 180, 181, 193; Davis, Vol. I, p. 481; Montgomery Advertiser, July 14, 1867; N. Y. Herald, May 15, 1865.
[392] O. R., Ser. IV, Vol. I, p. 1010.
[393] This act authorized the governor to lease the salt springs belonging to the state and to require the lessee to sell salt at 75 cents a bushel at the salt works. The state paid 10 cents a bushel bounty and advanced $10,000 to the salt maker. Acts, Nov. 11 and Nov. 19, 1861.
[394] One private maker with one furnace and from 15 to 20 hands made 60 bushels a day. Another, with 15 hands, burning 5 cords of wood, made 36 bushels a day. There were also many other private salt makers.
[395] Ball, “Clarke County,” pp. 645-649, 765; “Our Women in War,” p. 275 et seq.
[396] Acts, Nov. 9, 1861, and Dec. 9, 1862.
[397] Acts, Dec. 9, 1862, Oct. 11, 1864, and Dec. 13, 1864.