The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-10-23

The Value Of ONE Square Mile in viryiaia.
The Richmond Enquirer says: II
Zone milo square Of ground in the city
Of New York, even calculating il at
elO0, 900 per acre, which is much more
than it would bring; except in favored
localities, would be worth S64, 900, 600,
aud yet we can find several localities in
The mountains Of Virginia, which are in
reality far more valuable. One Of these
may be found between Snythe and Wash
ington counties, on the north fork Of the
Holston, and is known as Saltvile, the
estate Of Col. Thomas /. Present. One
square mile, within the circumference of
the salt basin, including also the gypsum
formation within the same area, We can
show, by close calculations to be worth
aot only more than one square mile in the
city Of Nv York, but more than the
whole city.
The salt rock within this mile ranges
from seventy to one hundred feet in thick
ness, which would yield net tun, or for
ty bushels of salt to every sol d yard,
VI OscI sIIee tuousaHu hiiitious VI push,
els! which, when manufactured, is worth
from forty to fifty cents per bushel. But,
presuming it to be worth twenty cents
per bushel in the ground, and We have
six hundred millions of dollars, to which
we must add two hundred and fifty tons
of plaster within the same space, worth
in the ground about one dollar per tun,
making total Of eight hundred and fifty
millions of dollars New York property
is valued at seven hundred and fifty mil
| lions of dollars
In another place we estimated the value
of this n ineral deposit at only twenty
eight hundred and fifty millions of dol
lars New York property is valued at
seven Hundred and fifty millions Of dol
lars.
la another place we estimated thcval.
ue of this mineral deposit at only twenty
q. eight hundred million bushels of salt,
without reference to the plaster or the
land and improvements. But the present
one we make as boast against anything
that the world can produce, and of course
have not allowed auy "coatingencies' in
our calculations. The one square mile
alluded to above contain. about al
the salt, but not tenth part of the
plaster. The estate contains alb ut ten
thousand acres.
We might also choose square mile on
the iron mountains of Allegheny county
which, when perfectly developed, would
be worth more than all the farms in Vir
glnia: or We might choose a square mll'
| of the lead property at the old Wythe
mines, and, only estimating it according
to the yield up the present time, at ;
moderate profit in the ground, and our fg
ures would run into millions.
We copy tue following description o
French life from letter Of Mr.. Williams
to the Utica Herald, Of which he is on
Of the edit, RS:
The Fronchman hardly knows wha
home is. lie apparently never thinks o
it, except as place TO sleep io, or where
in to take refu-e when there is 10 othe
place to go to His social gods are va
grant spritcs, who take up their abode
in the streets, in garden aud promenades
in cafes aud restaurants, in theatres an
concerts At least three-fourths of TIL
/ inhabitants of this city substantially u,
, away from home. DO not suppose tha
!, one Partisan in three ever eats a meal c
: yictuals at home 1t is a novel spectacl
to witness the proceedings of these pee
pie in one of their great restaurants abou
breakfast or dinner time. | suppose M
> self sitting in one of the eating house
in the Palas Royal. Two OF thre
: : rooms are filled with hungry guests. A
: that small table sits whole family--f
!, ther, mother and half dozen children
:. each with his little bottle of wine befol
him, eating, chatting and laughing, as
. it we're the chief end of life to be merr,
- Yonder sits portly lady, with two grow
up daughters, deeply absorbed in sala
aud cold chicken. Further on, at a We
bit of table, sits young lady quit
" alone, who has run in from the she
:, where she serves, to swallow hast
: mouthfull. At the other end Of ii
!. room sits pale faced woman, in widow
= weeds, with two little chillren-the oil
; ioy of her sad life. Vis-a-vis with he
= sit two brazen faced wenches, who
= > painted cheeks and lsseivious looks tell t.
= eloquently the life they lead. Here com
strutting iuto the room a dandy, redole
"a of musk aud rose water, who for lack
- other room is compelled to sit cheek
10 jowl with wheezy countryman. He
:. are wealth and povcrty-wisdom and f
"a ly--ago and youth--virtue and wicke
n ness--all mixed up in one vast hode
- podge--abandoning themselves in hap
:, oblivion of the distinctions which divl
L. them out doors, 10 the great business
!, eating and drinking Of course, the
n RE places where the great do chiefly co
II sregate; and where the lowly may di
of for soug; but in almost any one Of {
" popular restaurants one may also see
- most see every social grade and condtio
n from the lordling to the bootblack.
:, Skeletons Of Men Ten Feet High.
IL Mr.. William Frazer writes to the Ci
g cinna,i Gazette, from Winchester, In
iy ana that half n mile northwest Of II