New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-06
THE PEAT BEDS OF THE LAKE ERIE SLOPE
WHERE THE PEAT is FOUND AND HOW IT Is
MANUFACTURED.

MANUFACTURED.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July SO.-LeaVitt, III hlS
work upon peat as an Article OF Fuel states A'o
at present very little information relative 10 the eP
OF peat in Ohio and this information Is mostly o 'o
Lake shore" IL is we'll known fact that peat n"s O
discovered In large quantities on the Lake siopo VI
and even in the Interior The beds recently found con
tain uost excoent quality varying from 70 to 90 per
cent OF pure carbon There enough peat In tho Dogs o
Ohio 70 Last the entire northern part OF the State
for az least half century. and perhaps mnch longer
The peat fields OF Northern Ohio can DO 1ound III
Lake Portage Wyandot. Geauga, Richlahu ana LuoNe
Counties Within regionof 80 miles arounu Nio'oi"n'
are perhaps 6O0O 5000 acres Of peat bog some ueP
richer than others according the stages OF It's grown"
The peat OF Hudson and Portage Counties comprising
over 5000 acres with depth OF from Is to 30 Iee' your
correspondeut has Just visited and OF which he
will give you a brief description. Iaklng tho
cara OF tho Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railway anu pass
ing along the shores OF the lake for about TWO ines
YOU then strike out into an open country shghty
unduating with here and there cump OF WOou' anu ia
an hours time after leaving the Forest City you reach
Hudson, the seat Of Western Reserve College FROM
Hudson south four miles you enter the peat region
Five miles below Hudson the peat bogs can be PLAINLY
seen on each side OF the railway Three miles north OF
Rayenna beautiful Rkeet is reached and the Dog inter
yenng between II and the track Is one continuous mass
OF neat To the right OF this akelet Is Snail elevation
or hill perhaps 90 feet In hight when contains p'u vi
dry wedrained peat, perhaps Is feet In depth south
one mile from this lake another bed exists on theotes
of small pond, but this is OF Inferior quRhv III these
rocts ore perbaps 1900 acres Leaving these bogs no
moro indications are seen along the railway untli
Ravenna the county seat Of Portage Is reacheu
Leaving the cars this point you walk on tho track
about half mile south Of the town, and yon reaeh
orge neat bog which Is being worked by accompany OF
gentlemeu from Cleveland On the lst OF hatch thls
ground leased and the month io,oWlhg % t
commenced by drainage IL was not uhll aDouL es -.
OF Nav howeyer, that the bog was In WORKING
order This bog comprises about 40 acres oil
neat varying from 10 TO 80 rect IN ueptn'
{rre ~ about Is men is at work The peat Is rst
shaded then thrown into an open car WIN sues "n
when being filed, IA run up an Inclined plhne 70 Ha
form where II dumped into an immense hopper WIN
fae bottom The crude earth or peat Tails INTO an eie
yatOr which carries 10 into peat mil, ah theIe IL
ground up and the refuse separated from IL VIII the
peat is conducted below, where II comes OUT III uOus
forming slabs which are placed on frames me lIaes
are rolled tram railway about 800 yards IIyui tiio
mills and are there taken OF and placed transyersey hs
fine sides of wall tent the field TO dry IN the sun ana
wind There B some shrlukage but IN eishI OF
ten days the peat Is 'G no ury IKE i oak
bark or Ia placed in warehouses Tor storaB9
The cost OF this peat delivered about So per tun when
l. abont equal 10 the price Of Masslon coal 1t can De
manufactured for much less than y per tn ana wlsn ~
comes general will no doubt be sod Iof o - ~
to 81 per tun. The engine used at theSe WORKS u ~
n0wer horizontal cylinder engine lt takes ABOUT Low
ound= OF peat IL per diem. IL has been IN use
since Nav and thus the boilers as clean as when
they were first put In There Is no art ABOUT peat. a
raycely any smoke II has been stated that the fapd
combustion " peat would prove disadYantageous 20 is
use This IL a mistake, except where great drIt " nc
cessary for was shown how euslly the nfo couIh uo
Graduated from an heat TO an almost lmpefcept-
lille combustion. and ths too In less thah hye nnles
The analysis OF this peat m te ~ & r ss neP
cent oxygen Is per cent, OF wser 20 pr ce a VI
ash 36slOo per cent oeside comohaiohs OF on anu H
MONA Deeper strata viii no DOUBT run IL up 10 eo per
cent Of carbon. r.