Israel Cope Letter to Thomas Rotch Regarding Salt Works

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	Fairfield Columbiana County   Ohio 3mo-25-1815
	  
Esteemed Friend
	                             
		I have been contemplating on writing
	  
to thee some time & now an opportunity of private con-
	  
veyance of [of crossed out] offering I in haste must endeavour to
	  
gave thee some of the outlines, desiring thy consider-
	  
ation thereon wishing thou mayest do what is
	  
best whether agreeable to my request or no [line]
	     
I in company with some others have Saltworks
	  
on yellow brick about one mile above where Samuel
	  
Potts formerly lived  we hold about eleven hundred
	  
acres of Land and have one well that we have made
	  
eighteen bushels of salt per day at & are sinking
	  
another   I wish to build a Mill as there is none near
	  
& we have, we supposs, a good seat, in short the property
	  
will admit great improvement but we are not able
	  
to pay for them & improve at the same time without
	  
without [without crossed out] assistance, & under several considerations
	  
I venture to carrot mark] make [above carrot mark] some proposals to thee for thy impartial
	  
investigation & consideration as above, I have been