Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-01-20
SEEN OK A JOURNEY.

travelling about the Stale one con-
stantly secs tokens of the '.business re-
vival. In villages that have not pros
pered under old forms of industry new
methods of making money are being
tried with success. Four years ago, for
instance, the business life of Warsaw,
in Wyoming county, seemed to have de-
parted One Of the leading merchants
said to another: "If we don't do some
thing soon we shall all be in the poor
house" Some one thought that pos
sibly the great oil field of Pennsylvania
might extend into New York State even
rs far as Warsaw. Down went an oil
drill 100 feet. 500 feet, 1000 feet, l,2OO
feet--and then up gushed salt brine.
There was no oil there, but there was
rock-salt of the finest kinda bed eighty
feet in thickness and 10000 acres of it.
Ninety per cent. of the brine was salt.
while that pumped from the wells at
Syracuse yields only 90 per cent. War
saw at once employed its capital in the
manufacture of salt. In three years the
industry has amazingly changed the APP
pearance of the place. From stagnant
town it has become one of the most ac-
tive in New York State. The village
rests in the bottom of the great Wyom-
ing valley like thimble in a bowl.
Clustered about on the hillsides are gi-
gantic salt works belching forth smoke
and flame day and night Two rail-
roads run on the hillsides on either side
of the valley, whose tracks have been
connected with the salt works. Their
services are needed, for 5000 barrels of
salt arc made day about Warsaw One
salt manufacturing firm alone cxpends
$4,000 yearly in buying bagging for the
salt it manufactures.
One discovers another new industry at
Friendship. little out-of-the-way town
in Allegany county. Alighting from
railway train at that place traveller
must notice ut once an amazing waste
of gas Opposite the depot there is a
tall iron gas pipe with branches blazing
with gas night and day In all the
stores and houses in the village, too, al
though it may be bright, sunny day.
the gas is kept burning. The gas used
is the natural product of the wells in
Allegany county, and it is so cheap
that there is no need of economy in its
use. Not only is it used for lighting
the stores and dwellings but also for
heating all the stoves. No coal cellars
are needed, and there are no ash heaps
in the back yards. The cost for heating
and lighting building Is about s. a
month. Not alone ut Friendship is the
natural gas used. Along the Pcnnsyl-
vania border village after village in
New York is putting in natural gas
works. Wellsville has adopted the sys-
tenn, and the streets of jamestown at
the present time are being torn up by
gas company that intends to run the
natural gas through its mains. The
jamestown gas will come from PENN
sylvania. Not only will it be used in
stores and dwellings, but also in manu-
factories-and a cheapening of manu-
factured products may be expected.
In Corning one sees near the Erie
Railway depot glass manufacturing
works of large size. In that retired cor
ner of the State the finest cut glass is
manufactured. Going through a sales
room there is like visiting the glassware
department of fashionable iewelry
and china store. A set of cut glassware
for the White House was made in the
summer, with the initials III. S." cut
upon each piece.
There is beautiful village some
twelve miles from Syracuse where a
large proportion of the tobacco raised in
this State is bought. 1t has name that
Artemus Ward loved. .'BaldwinsviIle,
although it is not in "Injeanny.n From
the railway depot looking ut the quiet
streets Of the place no one would sus-
pect that they were bordered by score
of large tobacco warehouses. Going
along the streets and looking at these
warehouses, one is every now and then
surprised by seeing the name of some
great New York tobacco-dealing firm
upon sign hung out from the ware
house. Nearly all the large tobacco
dealers of New York have agencies in
the village. Stretched about Baldwins-
vile are the tobacco fields of the State,
$4,000 acres in all. The soil seems
specially adapted to. tobacco culture.
But Baldwinsyille is troubled. Its sleep
is disturbed by ''the Snmatra leaf" It
insists upon the duty upon the leaf being
increased. Business is lively. good
prices are anticipated for the 10000, 900
pounds of tobacco stored in the tobacco
barns. but still '.thc Sumatra leaf must
60; its competition with the domestic
leaf is too keen. Congress will receive
a petition from the Baldwinsyille farm
ers praying for an increase of the duty
on the Sumatr;l leaf-N. J.. Tribune.
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