The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-26
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THE MUSEUM.
Rocks and Letters Piled up
as Usual.

to the Governor to know IL we nave
asbestos, and all about it; and, If
there is any thing in the Geologi-
cal report about it, w hts that.
Answer, asbestos, plenty, in Cald-
well, Burke, Polk, Jackson, Mitch
ell, &C., and gave names of owner.
Party in n. H., O.. Stone & Co..
offers to sell us ova of California
trout, at $500 per thousand.
This is a matter for the Board of
Agriculture. Consulting Governor
Vance, it is agreed to make a bid
for 10000, at a considerably lower
figure, and also for 100000 brook
trout. Stone is the principle au-
thority on trout cultivation.
Scientist in Cincinnati Uniyer-
sity wants Geological report. Party
in eastern county, tired of cotton,
wishes to try cattle and grass IN
the mountains, and wants to know
about land lands, prices, &c. Send
him to Maj. Lenoir's fine cattle and
sheep farm in Haywood to see
what a be done, also to points
further west, and to Mitchell and
Watauga. Letter about Sumac,
how to cure &C.; no name; ar
swercd elsewhere,
Party from Madison sends sample
Of mineral though Mr.. Gudger OF
the ID. ID. & B. Institution. Only
pyrites; no value. Mr.. b. of War
rem county sends specimen: kaolin,
how much is there: Good for
china-ware. Official in Washing
ton wants III last report on fish
culture in North Carolina. Send
the commissioners monthly report
for May, containing the fish laws.
Mr.. b., number two, wants a pro-
fessorship in a college. Clever
gentlemen, will see what can be
done for him.
Three specimens from railroad
cut Swannanoa Gap. Ochreous
earth; Illuminated quartz, good for
milestone, equal to buhrrstone; and
kyanite, good specimen. This
mineral is very abundant at the
Gap, and often contains corundum.
From a Wake county man, hand
full of micaceous specimens of gran
lite and quartz supposed to contain
gold. All is not gold that glitters;
in this case it is mica. Sorry, but
truth is wholesome and economical;
you might waste you money min
ing for, naught.
Two colored men bring in speci-
mems of greenish rock, somebody
thought it was copper; and SO it is.
Two miles, but cont want to tell
where from, but near Raleigh.
Enquiry for Malachite mine, all
the way from Missouri. Have to
write that we have it not.
The philosopher from a distant
State who Jared so i'll last summer
among the Black Mountain
chinches, had carried his barometer,
and has recovered his equanimity
sufficiently to send me the compu-
tations of his observations on alti-
tude, he makes Beaucatche 1886,
Golss house $500 and odd, sc.
New York party who has been
travelling South looking up gold
mines, brings up at Charlotte and
wants general report Oh our depos-
It's, past productiyeness, prospects,
extent &c. Large text, but give
him outlines and refer to Geologi-
cal report of 1875.
Prof, Riley, the distinguished
entomologist, who for 10 years, il
the employ Of the State of Missouri.
fought and caught the red-legged
grasshopper, of the plains, and i:
now in the employ of the Z. S
Agricultural Department., has beer
on a tour among the cotton field
of Alabama, Georgia, South Caro-
lima, Studying the habits an'
range of the cotton worm, an'
stopped over here a day to see /
the worm extends his operations S