I must not forget to mention there are some manufactories both on and off the line of the road. At Williamstown, Tansboro, Waterford and Winslow Junction are glassworks, and at Gibbsboro, two miles west of Kirkwood station the white lead, zinc and color works of John Lucas and Co., and the pleasant country-seat of Mr. and Mrs. L. and their large family. Beside a few cloth and cotton mills throughout these counties, working in ice, charcoal, pottery, wine etc. give a little variety to agriculture, which is of course the vastly preponderating occupation. There are sixteen blast furnaces in the State. The fertilizing marl beds of New Jersey are incalculable.
New Jersey stands sixth in the list of manufacturing states.
Her area is not quite eight thousand square miles not quite five million acres two-thirds in cultivated farms. The solid-rugged, ever fast foundation of the State consists in its farm lands and in its mines, its marl, clay, etc. Its population today is a million and a quarter. Then, after touching at Da Costa, arrive at Elwood rather pleasant appearing. The fee-simple cheap, vines and small fruits eligible.