Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-01-31

las tFeraitun drives uu about - d
cent. Of the sulphur in the form q su
IhuFuusseid gas. TIE roasting ean b
bsiisr aud faslvT d0ne 10 winter ihsn ]
summer.
Toe gssse. that arriscs from this Pre-
oes destroy vegetation IN the vicinity az
cannot be healthy for men. There an
fumes Of arsenic that aries during ih
roasting - well as the sulruroas aud gas
A proposition Is now under eousidvTa
ton by the company 10 have their orc
roasted more rapidly by q party who pro
poses 10 erect furnaces for that purpose
with the intention Of saving the sul
Phurie acid, aud also Of various fertil
lizers.
The fuel used in these f1rnaess is cox
which is thrown m, in alternate layeri
with ore. The fuel is consumed aud ih,
whole mass Of ore rock and aud metal il
reduced to a liquid by the intense heal
produced By the blast.
Whea a sufficient amount of this melt.
ed material has accumulated in the bot.
tom OF the furnace hole is drilled IN the
trout Of the furnace aud the liquid is al
lowed to run out into a cavity made in the
sand. As this sand hole fills up the me-
tallic portion Of the molten mass settles TO
the bottom, while the melted rock floats
upon the surface, aud OVERLOOKING runs of
aud is thrown away. The metal SO OBJ.
tanned is about 40 per cent. Of copper. and
has 10 be broken up aud 90 through sew
eral processes Of roasting aud melting TO
expel sulphur aud other impurities, till
finally il is dipped into iron moulds that
bold about 225 pounds each, aud thus nc
have pig copper, ready for market. 1t
is about 20 per cent. metal, and requires
another process TO refine it aud make in.
got copper.
The furnace of the Vermont Company
are now turning out 100000 pounds
per month of pig copper. This is now
bringing twenty.six cents per pound, and
finds u ready sale. Thus the product of
the mite is about s26, 900 per month or
over S30O,OOO per annum. Shere are
employed in all, about the mine and
works, three hundred men aud bows.
These with their families make village
If nearly one thousand persons bot the /.
most desirable population in some respects,
tut good hardy laborers.
They have lately built a Methodist and |
Catholic church there, anu a new post
thce has been established by the name Of
ely, from the president of the company.
The present condition of affairs con-
eotcd With the Vermont Copper Mining
company looks very Hattering indeed.
'ut 1t Is three years since a dividend has
cen paid, aud there never have been
ut six dividends paid, amounting in all
, Sl50.000.
The nominal capital of the company
$1,000 divided into l00, 600 shares, I
50 each. Some of the present stock. !
DldeIs own stock that cost them but few |
,nts per share. To them, if they had {
ever paid any assessments, the dividend
1869 CT Sl.OO per share, or 90 per
mt on par value, vas on the whole quite q
But others Of the stock. +,
'Idcrs have paid the par value of their I
ork and assessments besids, and TO them O
delay of from three to five years between "
vlGends is rather taGtalizing. q
Professor Samuel W. johnson of New !,
aven, Conn, read paper entitled "Ex.
usiion Of Soils" and began his remarks Il
tn an assertion that the popular belief h
at the land throughout the country i, $,
coming impoverished year by year, and G,
at the natural effect Of continued culn.
,lon is to exhaust the soil, is untrue. in
] the figures statist!cians cannot make n
true The Professor defined exhaus. h,
n US the removal from the soil of Gle n
nts necessary to produce crop, aud n,
available form to do so. All the ee. su
nts necessary TO the production of M
zen crop may exist in soil, but not in III
M which mades it available to the crop. /
+ instance, there may be much feldspar in
"a soil, and feldspar contains fourteen du
: cent. OF potash yet, potash may be it.
Piled to that soil with good results. The an
sou is that the potash existing in the tn
ispar is not in an available form il
the crop it must be freed. and con- as
ted into more soluble form. Pro- In,
.or johnson asserted that all soils con- no
q all the elements necessary to a crop. ha
continual cropping, S, NE elements in on
orm available to the crop is removed, an
II is the business Of the farmer TO re- Fo
re the elements SO removed. For in set
nee, some crop may he produced year to
'r year, which constantly removes from wo
soil some particular ingredient as bot
sphate of lime, and this must be re- FL
ed to the soil in sufficient quantities
eplace what has been removed. sor
his is one cure for exhaustion. More bu,
n it consists in simply making svaila- it
to the crop the elements which al nee
ly exist in the soil, and no soil is with
them all, as has been said. The far
must understand the processes by
Oh he is to put these elements into a.
, which will makcRthem capable of be- us,
taken up and utilized by the crop. OF
Iilizers are calculated to supply ele. se''
Is distracted from the soil. Owing OF
is distance from commercial centres,
farmer must rely principally upon his real =
ty to make available, element already .
ting in the SOIL 1t would be difficult dur
Inn to replace those removed. gar'
here are alterations continually going muc
the soil, such as weathering. solu- cert
pulverization. &c. The rapidity
which these changes go on in soil s