Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-01-27

tHIS course, although IL might eDuaIIStT 1He
success Of the work; as we could not keep
the people informed Of the facts developed
by our labors. Bat il was believed cur cit
izens would not permit the SURVEY TO stop
until every county in the Stale should be
fully examined.
This plan was then adopted, almost unan-
imously, by that General Assembly.
Since that time the work has been vigor-
ously prosecuted upon the plan then adopt
ed. County surveys have been made, map,
made out, soils, minerals and mineral waters
have been aualyzed with great care. In
strnments have been supplied to observers
at St. Joseph, al Palmyra, at Columbia, al
Springfield, and at Cape Girardeau, where
observations are made three times each day,
for determining the temperature, pressure
and moisture Ct TIE air, the amount OF rain
and SNOW which fall, and the direction and
force of the vino. All building materials.
marbles, ,limestones ,sandstones, clays, sands,
and timber, have been carefully observed.
One or more specimens of soil have been
collected for analysis from each county
We take one portion at the depth Of from
, TO 6 inches below The surface, another
from 10 to II inches below, and a third
from the depth OF from Is TO 20 inches.
In this manner A counties have been
completed, and several others are partially
done. The work is more than half done,
as shown in my report laid before YOU TO-
day.
Although ii could not be expected that
any important results would be obtained
from the examinations Of the past four years,
until the whole work is completed, the
specimens examined and analyzed, and all
the facts collated and arranged, still we
have been able TO make several very impor-
tant deductions from the facts thus far ob-
served.
Our examinations have proved the State
even richer in minerals and soils than we
had reported it. New deposits Of coal, iron
zinc, copper, and lead, have been discover
ed. Extensive beds of bog iron have been
traced out in Scott, New Madrid and Dun
kiln counties; and thick beds of spa'hic ore
underlie many square miles in the highlands
Of Scott and Howard; and vast beds of the
micaceons and hematile ores, and marbles,
have been discovered in nearly all the South
ern cOuties. Hydraulic limestone of good
quality exists in several Of the central coun-
ties, as Howard, Boone, Cooper, Galloway,
Montgomery, and others.
Several years since, our mining interests
received severe check by the emigration
TO California, and by an opinion expressed
by geologst, in lis work on tie "Mealic
Wealth Of the United" In that work he
attempts 10 show that the lead veins in
Wisconsin are limited 10 one formation, not
more than one hundred feet thick; and that
the Missouri veins were OF the same charac-
ter and as Limited in extent. This oinnIon
coming from occupying so high position as
United States Geo!ogist, had a very delete
rious influence upon our mines. Those en-.
gagged in the business became doubtful, and
capitalists could moi be induced to invest
largely in works which would soon cease
10 be profitable through the exhaustion of
the mineral wins, But, after five years
examination, have proved that our lead
veins extend through four formations, pYs-
sessing an aggregate thickness of more than
900 feet, instead Of beng limited TO one
formation 100 feet thick. This one item
will encourage miners, and give capitalists
confidence to invest in our mineral lands,
and xork our numerous and rica metallic
veins. Our mineral lands, if opinion be
correct, are worth four times as much as
they would be were the veins limited 10 one
formation only one hundred feet thick.
Good enough will result from this enc
resul; TO pay for twenty surveys.
Every one who has Travelled over The
Southern part Of the State, need not TO be
tod of those ridges, and undulating prairies,
and oak openings, where the fragrants of
flint are SO abundant that the soil has been
deemed worthless for ordinary cultivation.
This opinion has so possessed the minds of
the settlers, that they have in many places
relied upon such lands for pasture ard tim
Der, believing it never would be scld by the
government. But, in my report on The
Southwestern Branch Railroad, it is proved
that these lands, heretofore deemed worth
less, are the very BEST for grape culture;
that large tracts Of these lands are as well
adspied by nature 10 the grape, as many Of
the vineyards Of our own State and of Ohio
are after they have been prepared by an
Of some 5000 per acre. Thi,