Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-05-31
From tho Woodstock Mercury.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
NUMBER ".

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suits of the Geological Survey. heard one far
mer speak with the tone Of disappointment about
it. He seemed to have hoped that valuable
mine or bed of precious stones would be brought
to light by the Stale Gcologist. Fools Gold as 1t
is designated by mnerologists, that the people
may remember that all is not gold though yeitoio,
is common, and had been found in his neighbour
hood Perhaps he supposed the real gold was
there concealed, but soon TO be explored and car
red to the mint to fill his pocket with half
eagles. r
The Geologst is not to find mines where none
are, or precious stones where none exist. No
gold of any consequence has been discovered IN
the Surveys of any of the Northern States. The
peop e are repaid TAR better by learning what min
erals are not TO be found and saving the expense
OF useless diggings and hastings, as well as by
ascertaInng what ore the minera. resources of
the State, and what investments will probably
prove profitable to the citizens. Another udvan
tage will be in the application of discoveries made
to advance the interests OF agriculture, and how
and where your clays, and peat, and marIs, and
soup-stone,and serpentine may become profitable.
lie who makes two spires Of grass grow in
the place of one, is public beneactor." Such
has been The result ofthe Geological investigation
in many States. Who had thought of applying
the green sand of New Jersey as fertilizer of its
barren sandy soils, ,ll the geologist had pointed
out the place of the article and directed its ap-
plication.
In New York the people we're wasting in fruit
less efforts to find coal their money and toll till
the Biologists OF the State showed to them that
the coal bearing strata of rocks do not extend
north Of Pennsylvania.
The agricultural application of the Survey
viii more than repay all the expense Of it.
NUMBER v.
What an amount of wealth has been develop
ed IN the discovery of Iron Ores alone by the
Geological Survey of New York? What an im-
pulse has been given there, as natural result,
10 The manufacture of iron The ores of this
metal are most abundant of all, and iron is still
The most important of the metals. Its applica.
llons are the most numerous and necessary
IN some OF Its applications il costs more than It's
weight in gold aud is made to act part and
to produce results entirely beyond the power OF
SILVER aud gold-so that its place cannot be sup.
pied by any other metal.
Let The beds of iron ore, already found or
brought to light by the survey, be understood by
the people, as they will be presented in the FL
nal Report and the smoking furnaces will attest
the enterprise and energy OF our citizens The
mountain forests will have value before impos-
slble. Even the waste lands of Vermont will
become source of wealth. Let the railroads
furnish the means of ready conveyance 10 mar.
kci, and u still higher value will be placed on
forests, rocks, ores and lands.
The price OF any article depends on the cost Of
lis production. This is true of gold as well as
OF iron, wool, cheese, broadclois, cottons The
little fluctuations III trade make no important eX-
cePtion to this general truth. II the production
OF gold is diminished permanently one half of It's
cost, Its value will be only enc half what it has
been. Like other things, it will soon find its
real value.
The discovery of gold in Vermont by The State
Geologlst would not produce half the advantage
10 the people. as may be expected from the
general objects and permanent results 0: The
survey.
Even the gold of California may cost too much
in the loss Of life, wreck of health and dissipa.
tlon OF money and morals, SO that 1t shall be
actually dearer, except IN u few fortunate cases,
than the gold OF Russia.
But some gold has been found in Vermont and
talcoSe slate 10 found IN our mountains which Is
SAID to be the depository of the gold at the south.
The gold found IN Windhcm County was proba-
oily put into the soil, for the purpose Of decep-
tlon and cheating. THIS is suspected by those
who were led to find 1t.
1t is not knotUn TINT our tacose slate is in the
same connection as that in the gold bearing re-
gions. SaDdstones always accompany COAL
But all sandstones are not the codl-bearng spe-
cles. There is one right one, and is connec-
ions aud relations biologists have discovered.
Let not our citizens be led from the discovery of
gold, If II Is pure let them not expect it where
1t Is not G. k.
True it is that Vermont turns out gold Her
farmers and artisans and manufacturers are in
deed gold-diggerS. The evidence of this truth
bursts upon The eye OF the traveller us he passes
over the State. He sees in her villages, and
over the country, that competence and indcpend.
ence, which show that the people have dscov-
cred the true philosophers stone, which converts
other things into gold, There is no one mine OF
gold but the State itselfis the mine, and It's hills
aud valleys are ieeming eith The gold bearing pro-
dncfs CT The philosophers stone, which Is possessed
by every industrious, perseuering and honest man.
The Geological survey was begun, in order 10
make more extensive application of this phiioso-
piers Stone, aud thus 10 change more articles
INTO gold to nil the pockets OF the people. 1t
VIII tau OF this obect aud Of lis Chief object un-
less the ftndl Report is made and the Survey
brought to successful close. The people will
go ON to dig up gold in this way, and be pros
pered, have no doubt, but they will not make
It SO fast, neither will they make much Of it In
gwen period. The citizens of the State have
been losers SO far by the Survey, aud will be
tar greater losers if the Survey Is not completed
ana Inc last nnlsn put upon H.
The Stale Geologist is able to complete the
Survey, So that it shall be an honor to the State.
This has been done in other States, where the
Annual Reports have been no more satisfactory
than in this, and done also TO the high honor and
profit to the people. The Annual Reports oi
the Survey OF Vermont contain ample evidence
of the ability Of The Geoglst TO bring it TO sue
cesslul aud honorable termination.
| No other can make ii from this Survey al.
ready accomplished. 1t is impossible, because
no other knows the things seen, or Is able to
make the necessary filling up in the notes OF the
Geologist made at the time and on the spot
Some things might be reported by others; 5ut
the full, systematic, necessary report Of the Sur
vey,- the grand Final Report, can be made ouly
by the State Geologlst
| Shall it be done? Shall it fail 10 be made by
the want OF the small, but adequate appropria.
ton? Shall the people suffer this loss, and there
| be no remedy? Z. II.
Maple Sugar Crop in Vermont. We learn by
a gentleman returned from the northern pait OF
Vermont, where he has spent several weeks, tina,
the sugar crop has, lowing 10 the cold and back
wardness ofthe season,) been uncommonly large
averaging about four pounds of sugar TO each
tree, as the following statement OF facts will
show: