New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-08

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worked At ouco without waiting TIL wood is exhausted,
when The peat deposits must be drawn upon"
EEw-HAsPSHIRE PEAT.
IN NcW-llanp-Aire wooded as IL is tho people are be-
ginning 10 awaken t. the importance Of looking TO
other source Jr supply OF ie and steps have been Ia
ken 70 manufacture peat. IL has already been used 70
limited extent in crude state and proved Of excellent
quality The localities where peat is found in NowHamp
shic arc numerous The places whcro will be dug and
school Districts and it only needs awakening among
the people in each Of these districts TO make known TO
them that they have al inexhoustable supply of fuel where
the forests have disappeared.
PEAT IN vRMoST.
In vermont peat l. equally abundant as the geological
survey Of Professors Hitchcock and Hager have fully dom
onstTeed They say there is not town in the State that
Las hot supply Of peat stored up FOR future use The
Rev. = X Hall has also devoted much ettention TO the
Development OF this important truth. II not now import
ant sure to be in cw years more for, since onr remem
brance the most deney wooded portions Of the State have
been so completely stripped Of forests that timber and
fuel Is now an expensive article Peat in Vermont not
confined to low lands and valleys Of streams. Mr.. Hall
names some Of the highest towns in the state where IL is
found and oil the railroads cross beds Of it, which would
furnish them with far cheaper fuel than wood or coal
Some OF these deposits old and deep that fossil ele
plants have been found buried several feet below the pres
ert surface.
On the summit OF Mansfield mountain In the town Of
Stove, w. at an elevation of 1913 feet above tide, there
are beds Of peat and sphagnous moss rapidly increasing
the quantity OF fuel Tor future ages
PEAT IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Prof Htchcock report upon the geology of the State
found and whore viii undoubtedly be used for fuel within
very short period Excluding the four esern counties
from the estimate Prof Hitchcock gives for the remainder
OF the Sse supply OF peat equal to area OF 10 square
miles, over SIX feet thick enough TO make III 100000
cords of fuel of tho most valuable kind. Not town IN
the State be named where peat does not exlst and
upon Cape Cod where wood for fuel is nearly exhausted
there peat found most abundant and OF most excellent
quality though tho people have not yet learned is true
yalue II is also abundant upon Nantucket and ohor
islands and would be the cheapest fuel the Inhabitants
could They well as those of other portions OF the
State are very slow to learn that black mud viii burn
Burning IT, in Massachusetts,, Is no'new thing ElD
Phnney, Lexington used Ii more than 30 yeasaso Afte
20 years be said peat gives Summertime atnos-
pierre aud heats room better than w0od-lire. Ire
smoke hiss irritating elect upon the eyes aud docs not
in the slightest degree otsuct respraoni esd peat fire
has of that unpleasant drying effect felt from coal
ire the ashes are less Troublesome rod square Of
my bog cut three feet deep, me three CORDS OF dned
fuel and man. boy and horse, cut cart and spread
rod day. Afr drying about four weeks it is housed for
use and il then nearly heavy, when taken from we'll
drained bog as oak wood, and quite as valuable
CONNECTICUT PBAT FIELDS.
Connecticut is very deh in peat and 1t has been used of
fuel in that state, to our pen9na knowledge, over ~
those who would and most needed TO use Il as fuel were
not OF The treasure they possessed We have known
several peat boys drained for cultivation, and some OF
them have accidentally taken FIRE and burnt out until i've
or six feet of the surface entirely destroyed. We're
member Oncn the town ~ franklin, that burned AL one
summer and said 20 have retained the fire through
The Winter II Is certain that IL burning the second
summer. lit Lad no boon good fuel this result would
not have happened presume many OF or readers can
thai VII burn.
Nv yesIs ago. Prof T.. W. Johnson OF Yale College
published a valuable pamphlet cbout Connecticut peat
showing the location OF some OF the richest deposits
though 1t vas With view OF melting people TO use
the peat manure hau or fuel Yet II IS now certain
Tint Conuec'cat possesses peat deposits equal 20 any IN
The world This will very soon be developed by the
machiuc, already ordered for Us manufacture. Some 81 u
is naturally almost solid rs the condensed fuel We do
not hesitate 10 say Connecticut farmers that they lave
untold wealth of their most Of present, worthless
swamps. We know Of near Bridgeport Of 10 acres
which docs not contain less than 10000 tuns OF as good
peat as'ever produced in Ireland II Is remarkably
dense, in the upper strata There ) pear pog ~
Newton. where O substance somewhat resembling adipo
ofpene asbccn found Of the same kind as Slua
substances found IN ancient peat boys in Ireland
NETWORKS RgsOURoES-A PEAT MACHINE.
Of the State of New York ID is only necessary 10 say
that Il is as amply supplied With peat as either OF the
state. already cniiohed it is found In every county.
and In tho counties east Of the Hudson, we know, nom
10 sona observation that ubornds in almost every neigh
borhood L. some places has been used IN small way
Tor twenty yoais more, and within year company
hes been formed IN Nescheser County, with the nleh-
back Of Peekskin there j. oouaensug machine now at
wok and 70 several accs farmers have commenced dig
gIg peat "Jlsi 10 . the stun, and SEQ y II wli oarn
iha hoy have aay fifth Lat AZ wiz become snbsu
tule fog wood.
Thee = sso a peat machine in operation OF Pekin,
Siagars Co., n. A., Invented by Mr >. Roberts, who
being Tho owner OF large peat bog had energy eno Oh
90 set his wits 10 work 10 niizo the material.
wehave already iu former issue OF THE TErRUNH,
given q .scripOn o: this machine and therefore only
So that is pnncP 10 based upon the common sense IDEA
thai peat cannot have It's water squeezed out nor can DO
easily dried Of peat In the condition comes from the
bog Il must first Dc grouhd IN mill and mixed into a
mortar even II necessary 90 add more water, and u rh
then DRY much faster tor this manipulation.
Mr. Roberts made his machine to carry the peat upon IN
inclined plane 60 the mi by steam power, where ator
grinding aud mixing the mortar - carried down another
nane aud spread the ground bong made To reyove
80 as TO cover eighteen rods Of suaee ~ one standing
The morar is laid four or h'e inches deep ana cut IN
squares dry. which, after week are turned over
teking generally about four weeks to cure enough to
stack or house -. s..
the address of which tue extent Of ~ operations we
cannot give In this article for want OF definite information
DIR. Mather IN his rpod upon tho great resources OF
peat along the Hudson RIVER twenty seven years ago.
urged farmer. - make OF II for fuel The time had
NOT rot come Wood and coal were sil too cheap 70 in
duce them 20 Try such unheard OF eIpedenis May we
hone that the time is come. He stated 10 value,
whom prepared IN the ordinary way oqwl 10 oak "ooui
Dr. Msther tell farmers bdenrvhere to look for peat
wherever there is swamp marsh and hard 10 dlsn.
qrth that which will make iuel Dig dry and testit. Ii
hnms Il /, peat II il leaves but ltto ash 1t is good
fuel II the deposit IS deep, thrust pole down. and
roerie get up OF the mud from the bottom and test
n v,ue III ID Appears black and unctu0us II smOre thar
probable Il w dIy hariand dense s.1 hpla es.g iaking
str"n- nrat.. - 1870
.s5le peal bosin champlen Clinton Co. s n H. H.
two and hall miles long over hall niue "iuV' "H'- -"
been pnobed 20 feet without sading ps"m 81, of Nav
IN 0rongc County aud in the adjoining porri.r ., ~
Ierse there Is an Immense tract k'swn o. the drovr-
lands which believe 10 be OF the largest peat Dogs
known IN America, except the one mentioned upon AMI
costa.
| NEWJgRSEY. PENNSYLVANIA, sc.
In other parts Of NewJerey there are numerous smas
1eposts Of neat, sufficient h. furnish the state with fuel
indeDendon Of tho Pennyl,l mia coal mines. Many OF
ihe South Jersey cedar seamps arc ancient peat Dogs
ovcrHown with timber the debris of which have been
and still are adding 10 the peat deposit In some OF these
swamps there Is more and better timber, buried IN the
neat than Is attended by the living forest.
THE GREAT WESTERLY FIELDS.
There is one peatbog In Indiana over 90 miles long
nil,