In the valleys, the water is a strong limestone, in the balance of the county it is called free stone water. Perhaps no county has finer waterpower for machinery. In the rest of the county the soil is gravelly or sandy and on the creeks and rivers very rich. In the vallyes the rocks are limestone. In the mountains sandstone and slate.
Timber is tolerably large of fine quality and abundant.
Of forest trees oak is most abundant then pine, hickory, beech poplar, walnut, cedar, sugar maple from which a considerable quantity of sugar is made. Fertilizers Lime is obtained by burning the limestone of the valleys. The plasteress who have used it say it is the best they have ever seen made from the limestone. Ores There are considerable quantities of lead on which however is not worked. The iron ore is of superior quality and vastly abundant.