The Monticellonian., 1895-01-18
n the American Union.

 the premium at the Worlds Fair us the bet in the world. and is more easily mined than any other yet discovered.
 ?. All around the zinc are 2.19 square miles of marble of the same quality as tine Tennessee marble-the pink and black mar bles being superior tn any know n.
 3. She has 2,3i7 square miles of coals, which for some purposes are superior te most coals. Ten years ago we mined~ 5000 tons; now We mine 759,000 tons per an mum.
 f. She has extensive anthony deposits in the vicinity Of these mari and gypsum deposits.
 ,. She has the only chalk bluff in the United States which will mako Portland cement, and the gentlemen who started the first Portland cement factory in Flu. rope pronounce ours the best in the world.
 6. She has the only bauxite  deposit (there being but two) yet discovered in the United States.
 '. She has extensive deposits of kaolin. and about l3 counties nnderlaid with clays, rich Ill al uninum and many adapted to the purposes of the ceramic art, as al- so to the making of fire brick.
 8. She has three deposits of manganese, each of immense quantities and excellent quality. It's area IS iz6 square miles.
 9. She has several slate de- posits one recently discovered bluff being equal to any this side of Scotland, and of three colors, black, blue and red.
 10. She has recently discover ed ledge of mica.
 II. She has magnetic and oth- CT iron ores scattered throughout ,he mountain region of the state, and the most extensive novaculite deposits in the United States, or 305 square miles of it, and of such superior quality that they are sought for all over tue world.
 12. She has valuable granite, blue and Gray, and flag and other building stone in enormous quan- titles scattered over the greater part ot lho State, besides 1000 square miles of lime stone.
 IS. She has natural gas and coal oil, but not yet developed.
 II. She has enough shale, out of which vitrifed brick are made, to pave every city i'll the United States. She is paving several. It's quality is unexcclIod.
 
 15. She has water power enough to manufacture all the cot ton in the world and nearly 1000 miles of navigable water which with proper attention by our na- tional government, could be made navigable the year round.
 Is. She has timber which, as estimated by those who know, if cut and sold, would purchase ev- cry acre Of land in Kansas and Nebraska, at their assessed values.
 17. When you have cut off the timber you leave soil so fertile, and so adapted to all kinds of crops grown in the temperate zone, that according to the census of 1860 the cash value per acre of her farm products exceeded that of any other state in the Union except Louisiana. q have not consulted the census of 1890, for the reason that 1 know from per sonal experience that in this re- spect it is utterly worthless, so far as the South is eoneerned.)
 IS. Her fruit, and especially her apples, have taken off the first premiums at all the great exposi- tions, and all her prize apples are seedlings, showing that it is her soil and climate which produce them.
 l9. Her cotton, both long and snort staple, carried off the premi, uln at the Worlds Fair over the whole world.
 20. l do not see how her eli mate could he improved in the greater portion of the State.
 2l. She has established one church nearly every other day for the past ten years, until she has one church for every 325 in hahitants. and still the good work