The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-03-15

ness Of the soil wherever found.
Salt-wells have been bored on the Clear
field, Susquehanna and Blacklick creeks
but the reasonable expectations OF the ad-
venturers were disappointed, and the en-
terprise abandoned in each case. Nor Is
it probable that it Will be renewed
In Geology, Cambria county belongs
to that range of counties known as the
the secondary formation.
The PURSUITS Of the citizens Of Cam
bria county are agriculture, numbering,
mining, and manufacturing.
\ majority of the people are engaged
more or less, in the science Of agriculture.
The principal agricultural townships are
Couemaugh, Jackson, Richland, Summer
hill, Cambria, Allegheny, White, and
Clearfeld Jackson, Conemaugh, and
Richland, being generally populated by
Pennsylvania Germans--a people noted
for their industry and thriftiness-contain
may excellent farms. The emigrants from
Wales, who settled Cambria township,
were remarkable for their patient epdu-
rance Of labor, and their economy Of liy-
ing-which quality they have transmitted
to their descendants. The subsist princi-
paIly from the products of the farm and
the diary. The German cmigrants, who
compose the majority of Carroll township,
adopt the frugality Of the "tatherland,
and raise large crops off small farms. The
highly cultived farms of Allegheny and
CIearfeld townships point out aPopuIation
advancing to luxury.
But laundering is scarcely less gen
eral or less lucrative pursuit than farming
This business absorbs every other in White
and Susquehanna townships during the
winter and spring. The SNOW of winter
is the season for telling the timber, man
ufacturing the lumber, and getting it to
the river; and the rains Of spring, by ere
ating L "freshet,' or "1ood," as it is cal
lei, afford the means Of getting the fruits
of their labor to market. This lumber
generally consists of pine timber, some
times in logs ready for saving, sometimes
in spars for vessels, and sometimes in man
ufactured boards. In the other portions
Of the county, large business is done on
the public Improvements in Cherry and
Poplar lumber.
Mining for coal is mostly pursued in
Washington township, and even here not
so extensively as the importance of the
business would seem to demand. Mining
for iron is pursued to d large extent in
Conemaugh township.
The most extensive manufacture in the
county is that Of iron, or rather the metal
| from which iron is manufactured. There
are in the county six furnaces for the
manufacture of pig metal, four Of them
Gall in Conemaugh township in blast, and
one in Blackitk, and one in Allegheny,
not in blast There are also several foun-
dries for the manufacture Of castings
| There is also an extensive mauufactory OF
stone-warc in Johnstown.
The principal productions Of the county
are lumber, coal, iron, horses, cattle, but
ter, oats, and potatoes. OF the first three
Of these, I have spoken already.
The trade in horses seems to be a lucra,
tive and increasing business with our
farmers. They have exhibited a praise
worthy desire to improve their stock, and
their efforts have been appreciated by
Eastern purchasers. The mountain hor.
ses have, besides, character for hardness
and endurance which procures for them {
ready sale. Large numbers Of cattle are
also taken eastward annually by our dro
vers and butter Of a very superior quail
ty is shipped in large quantities by oul
merchants. The oats produced by oul
farmers finds ready sale on the public
works.
In the size and quality Of her potatoes
Cambria stands unrivalled among her sis
ter counties-in this valuable edible con
testing the palm even with the State O
Maine. Epicures pronounce our potatoe
at least equal to those of the boundar,
State.
JONATHAN OLDBUCK.
MoNKBARNs, Oct. Is, 1853
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