Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-06-24

exists without doubt in quantities as
inexhaustiblc rs, i'm quality 1t is un-
SURPASSED. Long acknowledged TO lie
the best specific manure FOR clover, as
of nil the grasses its value is Begin
ninp to be better understood us gen.
eral manure (notably for corn), while
recent experiments seem to exhibit
almost marvellous effects from 1t when
applied TO cotton. Thus the specific |
aliment of clover and the grasses,
which are the food of stock and the |
natural improvers of the soil, and |
through these, as well as directly, of
wheat and corn, the food of man as of |
cotton las is now said), his principal |
wear, 1t is, probably, in view of its |
cost relatively to its effects, and will be
more and more generally recognized
to be, altogether the most valual L.
auxiliary to agricultural production
of all that arc known.
The more palpable value, and the
more various and exigent uses of salt,
coupled with the difficulty of handling
and costly transportation of Gypsum
| about doubling prime cost each tYeh-
ty miles by wagon long LED 10 the
comparative neglect OF the latter, ana
its very partial development. Hardy
more than one or two thousand tons
were marketed in any one year before
the war from the Saltworks valley,
and during IL, very little. Since u
: ended greater attentit II has beeen paid
! to the mining of Plaster, and more
? regularity, method, and pcrmanency
8 given to the business, which Is con-
y stantly extending. The season just
:, closed will show upwards of 1000 tons
o sold against less than half that amount
Y for the preceding one. or this, the
70 Buena Vista Mine situated on the rail-
l. road, half q mile west of Saltville, and
y operated by the Virginia Faster
lie Company, furnished upwards of 5000
lr tons-and another, on the river Plas-
n ter Company Is now opening an appar-
/ emily very extensive deposit ut Salt
he Vile, and will be prepared, also, to
= enter the market the coming season,
d while measures are also being taken to
Is operate the great and valuable beds
II lying still higher up the valley.
', Tie specimens of this plaster sent u
y Lexington Institute show, by analysis
n respectively of Sulphatc of Lime, 1885
k and Il. SO, as compared with absolutely
ct pure Gypsum, which has 1907, both
d, being reported to me by Professor Sem
"a mes as being superior to Nova Scotia
II sent to the Smithsonian institute are
e stated to me by Professor Henry, OF
T. the information of his Mineralogica
Is assistant, to be of decidedly excellent
,; quality.
II The market of Gypsum is, now
m nearly concident with that of the salt
a But the great enlargement, both o
10 its boundaries and its consumption
+ whenever railroad connections shall b'
ot made with tho grass regions of Ken
+ lucky, is not problematical.
In the benefcent effects of these min
nc erals, Salt and Gypsum, of which
r. have been speaking, in cheapening tn
OF bread, meat, and clothing of the popu
le lations of our towns, may be discerne'
r one of the many causes which sures
u destine them TO become; in near fu
" ture. important seats of commerce ant
y manufactures, and while L rejoice II
g the general diffusion of the benefits o
es those minerals everywhere, l shall no
ln be found fault with for contemplating
IN with most satisfaction, the suspicious
10 influence they promise to exert on thu
ne growth and prosperity of our Nirginii
OF cities, and, above all-of that l am 81
N peculiarly bound to-thc city of Rich
le mond.
OF am respectfully,
IL Your ob't serv't,
IL WYNDHAM ROBERTSON.