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udI. upon analyZatlOn, Its composition, I
one hundred parts, is, of Carbonate O
Lime, SO and 80 one hundredths-Carbon
ate of Magnesia, none-Alumina and Oxid,
of Iron, so one Notwithstanding mat
ter, a fraction, and of water, 40 one hun
Idredthe.
From this aualyzation, you will at one,
see this marble is, by a great.per cent, SD
'perior to any before discovered in this coun.
try, as the best American now in use con.
%tains 80 parts Of lime, which is the chief in
gredient of all marble, the other parts be-
ing mainly Carbonate of Magnesia, (Which
renders in porus,) Alumina and Oxide OF
Iron, Water, &C., while this Galloway Mar
bic is free from Magnesia. 1t has been
tested by an experienced Marble Gutter of
st. Louis, bears the very finest polish, and
is pronounced second only to the real Ital-
ian. Its location and abundance is such,
that columns or slabs, of any desired size,
without a fracture in them, can be cut from
II with unusual facility.
In tue immediate vicinity of this marble,
has also been discovered an abundance of
Iron, Hydraulic Lime, and Coal, all with,
in a quarter of a mile of each, other,
in such abundance as to render that portion
Of Galloway county one of the most de-
lsirable sections Of the State, as a mineral
region. Fulton is only about six miles from
the spot where these treasures lie; and il is
truly fortunate for that pleasant villege
that these valuable discoveries have been
made; particularly so, as the marble will
constitute an invaluable portion of the ma.
,@terial used in the erection Of the public
buildings which are about 10 be put up
there should the builders be induced to use
it.
In this connection, / deem it notimprop-
er to urge these accidental discoveries as
among the many stroeg reasons alreadybe-
fore the public, why a Geological Survey Of
Missouri should be made by order Of the
State. For thirty or forty years the I'm
migrant and Traveller has been passing by
and over this hiden wealth; and shall it
longer be said that the proud State of lis
souri, is SO blinded with an incorrigable
parsimony as to still continue to make no
official effort to develop her buried wealth?
Individual discoveries, it is true, have been
numerous aud great in every quarter Of the
State, and been the cause, in a good degree,
Of its advancement in wealth and c~ivi!iza-
ton; yet how much more rapid would be
lis onward march, were a careful Geologic
al Survey made? It would show the world
where and how our minerals are located
it would have a strong tendency to induce
Capitalists among us, and with them would
come immigration. History informs us
that Great Brittin, even in modern ages,
was considered but an insignificant nation
by those around her, but mark the fact
while som of them were e%xuling over their
power and commerce, and hunting gold in
the New World, as many of your readers
now wish to in California, the Britons,
with the aid of the Crown, were hunting
and have continued to hunt the Iron, Cop
per, Tin, Coal, &C., that lay hid in their
soil, until now the whole world is compar.
~atively dependent upon their Work Shops
for most of the manufactures from metals,
that are used in civilized communities,
and their once hauty neighbols bow at
their soeptre in all the weakness that their
lazy gold hunting dreams have left them in.
This is a fair comparison, so far as the
public spirit of Missouri has developed it.
self on this subject. With millions of wealth
in our soil and under it, our Law givers
stand quietly still, listen to the tales of E1-
dorados in other countries, see thousands
of their citizens preparing to leave for them,
and thousands more passing by US to them,
without doing the least thing, in an official
way, to induce immigration or develop the
resources of the State. Its afact which
all informed men must a~oknowIetg4 thai
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