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Receipt from the Texas State Military Board for $25,000, given to agent A. H. Abney on April 29, 1864, to spend on "salt furnaces, kettles, and the necessary appliances for making salt including all proper expenses."

An account sheet drawn up by A. H. Abney to show the amounts of salt and money spent on food supplies for hands working at Jordan's Saline. The figures suggest that Abney had only about 8000 pounds of around 33,000 pounds of salt remaining on hand.

Abney writes from Jordan's Saline to excuse his limited success in making salt for profit.

This 1864 receipt records a transaction between A. H. Abney, the general agent of the Texas State Military Board at Jordan's Saline, and James Sample. Abney hired a team and wagon as well as "two boys" from Sample for four weeks, at a total cost of…

Receipt for John Carlock acknowledging payment of 160,000 lbs of salt for "the hire of twenty-seven negroes and five wagons and teams for eight months at the State salt works in Jordan's Saline." Another receipt from 1865, not included here, records…

Receipt acknowledging payment of $70 in Confederate notes and fifteen sacks of salt (3,000 lbs) "for the hire of a negro man eight months in 1864" from S. C. Callicoate. Another receipt (not included here) from September 23 records payment of 2,060…

A receipt acknowledging payment of $2,000 in Confederate notes and four thousand lbs of salt "for hire of negroes and teams in 1864" from G. S. Lusk (?).

This affidavit by A. H. Abney, former agent of the State Military Board at the salt works at Jordan's Saline, certifies that he paid a Miss Sue Harrison $1800 in Confederate money and 3,200 pounds of salt "for the hire of negroes and teams in the…

This affidavit by A. H. Abney, former agent of the State Military Board at the salt works at Jordan's Saline, certifies that he paid a Miss Sue Harrison $1800 in Confederate money and 3,200 pounds of salt "for the hire of negroes and teams in the…

This ledger sheet for 1864 shows that Abney received a total $44,945.88 from the State Military Board to manufacture salt at Jordan's Saline; he spent all of it but about $63 on the hire of hands and teams. Named persons receiving payment in cash…