Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-01
Extracts from the Correspondence of the Boston
Morning Post.


Extracts from the Correspondence of the Boston
Morning Post.
The IRoN MOUNTAIN Of Missouri !
mas made great Doise Of late, and the |
stock has been hawked about the Country
and much extolled. think there is a
good deal Of humbug about it. The first
account Of it that saw, was from Mr..
teathefstonehaugh. He described it, if
nightly remember, as mass of pure ma
tive from, five hundred feet wide, RAINING
downward TO an indinite extent, and lon
gltunlnaliy beyond his ken. Professor
Shepherd describes it, if reco,ect cor
fectly, asa mass. of pure s2ecular iron,
with no lntermixture whatever, except for
a feWrods square, and then it was dissen-
mated. With caIcareous spar, but he,did
not IND piece ofspar Of so much as a
pound weight. Specnlar iron, If have
not forgot nay mineraiogy, is nearly, or
quite, as pure as bar iron, with the lustre
iof polished steel. and can be wrought into
utensils without the process of smelting.-
The mountain. is but thirty-fve miles
from the river Mississippi, and yet the
Eowners of this mass of treasure are. call
ing on the public to take stock, and on
the State Of Missouri to become interested
to the amount Of half million of dollars,
to enable them to work the mne--to ena-
! bic them to sell their pure native iron. -
Their patriotic efforts remind me of
the story of an Alchymist of old, who ap-
! piled to his sovereign to reward him for
having discovered cheap process by
which he could make gold, and which Sc
cret he was ready to inpart to his males
ty. The king told him to call in a few
days and he would suitably reward him.
At the appointed hour the AIchymist was
at the door, the kng>received him kindly
and presented him with a large silk purse
the man comp lained-the king dryly re.
; piled, he had but to use his discovery to
fill it.
The Pilot Knob is a cousin-G German tc
the Iron Mountain, in which there are
J.. two kinds of iron-caied by Professo
, Shepherd, / believe, Porphoretic Iror
/ Ore and the Anhydrous Peroxide of Iron
; Specimens ofthese two kinds were shown
me in St. Louis. The porphoretic iror
, ore will not yield as much iron as can b.
, obtained from magnetic iron ore found
2 in inexaastible quantities, in the town G
) Bartlett, in New Hampshire And VIVA
! Was shown to me as the anhydrous pei
l. oxide OF iron, is like in kind bat inferio
: in quality to the ore found in abundanc
n at Franconia, IN New Hampshire.
h A gentleman in ST. Louis owns ant
n works a coal mine on the Illinois side,
e few miles from the city. He has built
Y temporary railroad to his coal bank, an
d you will see his large Wagons loade
s with coal, crossing the river in every fe
n; ry-boat to supply the city. He asked n
e, aid from joint stock or State subscription
N he makes no flourish about it, but is yer
r busly and silently filing his purse.
ir would give more for the coal bank tina
D. the Iron Mountain. H..
POPULATION OF THE SANDWICH Is
% ANDs.-What is the amount of popuI;
nc ton at this time2 Is it known with an
~ degree of exactness? We suppose nc
~ According TO the census Of 1886 it amour
- to 108,750. The census of 1882 ga,
III 100 Sl3 as follows viz