The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-11-29

you use much or little you pay the same
| so no one ever tries TO save il, unless he gets
too hot. My furnace in the cellar was fired
up about the middle OF October and no one
has touched it since there are regular
burners made and the gas burns in little blue
jets, such as you see in q gasoline stove, but
gu a much larger scale. There is neither
dust nor ashes to bother with and you have
cooking fire AS soon as you scratch a match
and turn on the gas. 1t smells like spoiled
eggs and if the cooking rangeis not properly
managed the food partakes of the odor to u
limited extent. For open CRATES you get
steel Stag and it heats up and you see nothing
but CRATE full of glowing coal you are al
ways thinking 1t is time to put on more coal,
but that time never comes. For manufactur-
ing purposes they supply the gas at much
lower rate than coal would cost SO that this
part OF the country has an unnatural boom in
manufacturing enterprises. When the gas
gives out they will be left high and dry with
their plants useless-but it may never give out.
discovery of natural gas in Hartford would
beat the canning business all 10 pieces.
The daily average of the Lima production
OF crude oil is about30,000 barrels, and it
sells for 10 cents per barrel. The farmer gets
rayalty from the people who bore the wells;
he makes lease and pockets say of the oil
produced, which he sells to the producer
month. The Standard Oil Company are re-
filming large quantities of the oil and the rest
goes of as fuel oil, which is cheaper than coal
for steaming purposes at many Western
points. Our company alone sells about 1OO-
600 barrels per month for fuel oil. We have
about 400 tank cars holding $50 barrels each
and the oil is shipped into the far West, New
England, &c.
The best Ohio oil fields are about 60 miles
north east of this place and bid fair to leave
this field far in the rear The wells are larger
and more of them flow. The oil is also Of
better quality. Large profits have been made
by producers laying out say $4,000 in wells
aud pipe lines, and selling out to the Standard
often for as mnch AS 5000, 900. The business
IN oil is mostly done by eastern people the
only good the natives get out of it is from
their royalties. They have neither the enter
prise nor the capital to do the business them
selves. The farm improvements in this part
OF Ohio and l guess all over the State are bad
do not think they would average 81 600 to
the farm but the land is simply magnificent:
no fertilizers are required, what stable
manure can he made is all they have as an en-
richer. From Cincinnati to Dayton, some go
miles, the country is n perfect garden, but
there Is no such thing as spring, or spring
branch, and in summer all the streams dry up.
There is no grazing. Water has to be pump
ed for what few cattle tEeyhave. The water
is lime stone and tastes horribly but as the
natives never knew anything better they are
happy and wonder why our eastern man
don't like it.
Their crops ofcorn, wheat, oats and pota-
toes this year are prime. Every farm cuts
crop of clover seed bushels TO the acre this
year was about an average. That counts up,
They thresh it right out in the field. They
have so many potatoes to the acre that they
dig them with a two wheel thing like a now
ing machine. We are buying them now for
our house for 25 cents per bushe, at the door.
The hay out here is the finest ever saw. If
farming pays in Hartford at all, out here the
farmer ought to get rich. The country is full
of railroads; 6 or 3 miles is the outside haul
about here.
Quantities of tobacco are raised about Day.
ton and the finest fruit ever saw, except
peaches they do not seem to thrive. A lit
tie canning is done, but the shops sell mostly
Maryland tomatoes. The worst part of this
country is the living; from Maryland stand
point it is very crude. have spun around
this world too much to be knocked out by
any such thing as the State of Ohio The
Republicans out here are still dazed over
their defeat. They don't know yet what hit
'hem Why is Campbell the largest man in
Ohio? Answer. He can fill fore acre chair.
MARYLAND.