The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23

delicious flavor impaired to its flesh by
the wild celery on which it feeds, which
believe is only found in our Bay.
OUR FACILITIES FOR MARKET.
The Tide Water Canal washes our east
ern border, from the Pennsylvania line tc
Havre de Grace. On this large canal there
are several depots, with extensive store
houses, owned by rich, enterprising firms
where we can always find ready market
for our produce, with good prices, and we
can here buy lime and other useful articles
at low figures. From Favre de Grace and
the Southern portion of the county there is
good navigation to Baltimore and Phila-
delphia and elsewhere. Those living in
the western portion of the county are with
in easy distance of Baltimore with good
turnpike roads. There is now first class
rail road turning from Havre de Grace to
Baltimore, and we hope that before long
the Maryland Central r. r. will cross up
per Hartford, which will still add to the adj
vantages we now enjoy. The Port Depos-
it and Columbia r. r.. will soon be fin
ished, and thern our farmers can cross the
Conowingo Bridge and ship their produce
either to Baltimore or Philadelphia as
is not one of the most desirable localities
for capitalists and enterprising business
men in our State.
OUR GEOLOGICAL WEALTH.
Vast quantities of geological wealth lie
hidden in the earth here, which is only wait
ing for enterprise and capital to be
brought forth from its primitive bed. Iron
ore abounds. The celebrated magnetic
ore, which is reckoned to be the best ore
for making cast steel in the world, abounds
at Deer Park and the Mine Old Fields,
while bog ore is plentiful in the southern
part of the county, from which choice iron
is made. Chrome is here found in large
quantities. Magnesia is plentiful in some
parts of the county. We have asbestos,
feldspar and fint--a large quantity of the
latter being annually shipped from our
wharves to the porcelain factories. In the
northeast corner of our county, at Slate
Ridge, there is an inexhaustible supply Of
the best slate in the world; untold millions
of tons of this useful article lie embedded
in Slate Ridge, and q large quantity is
now being quarried and dressed for mar
ket, but not the hundredth part of this
great vein of wealth is worked; and if a
few more heavy capitalists would join in
the enterprise they would be handsomely
paid for their outlay. Lying, as the slate
does, contiguous to the Canal, the facili-
ties for shipping it are all that could be de-
sired Now, VIC are not O selfish people,
but we would like to add to our present
thriving and increasing population.
A few thousand more good citizens, men
of capital and enterprise, would here
find large field for their operations.
Good mechanics would likewise find plen-
ty of work, while laborers, or anybody
that had will to make themselves useful
would find old Hartford an agreeable home.
Therefore we invite you to come and see
for yourselves. If you have money bring
it along and you will find it useful; but
if you. have no money, and are disposed to
work and make yourselves useful, come,
and we will at least treat you with true
Southern hospitality.
MARS.