The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST OF
HERE AND ELSEWHERE
Something in This PttpoHrri Will Give
You Food For Thought.
WHEREIN CAN GARRETT ADVANCE
Every Ton of Rubber Costs a Human
Life-Dairy Business a Coming
Source of Wealth-Story of Law
yer-Coal Nine Superintendent.

Rubber is exceedingly high when one
goes to buy any quantity of it. 1t
grows in countries where the climate is
injurious and where civilization is in its
primary stages. 1t is calculated that
every ton of rubber costs one human
life, The difficulties of securing it are
so great that hundreds of human lives
are sacrificed annually in order to get
rubber from the jungles to markets in
civilized countries.
Rubber was of little value to man for
many centuries. While the process OF
securing the material was known, yet
it was Mr.. Goodyear who made it of
value to human kind He discovered
the process of giving rubber its elastic
ity. He showed that by treating crude
india rubber with sulphur at high
temperature, it could be make very elias
tic or very inelastic, according to the
amount of heat and sulphur used.
The farmers or Garrett county are
learning rapidly the value of this sec
ton Of Maryland for producing certain
crops. It has been known for many years
that potatoes grow very productivity
here; that oats can always be relied
upon; that grass and hay can always be
reaped with great profit, depending
very little upon the weather; and buck
wheat is always used anonymously
with Garrett county Yet every years
hundreds of car loads Of oats and even
hay are shipped here to be sold to the
farmers. The money goes away to pay
for them, when this county is well-able
to produce enough to supply itself, if
these two products We're properly cul-
tivated and enough sowed. This sec
ton will never be as prosperous as it
can be until it cultivates those things
whichit can raise, producing enough to
supply its own needs, and leaves alone
those products which do not do well
here, and are always a losing invest
ment.
In view Of the fact that hay does well
in this section of Maryland there are
many farmers in this county who are
beginning to see the great stores of
wealth which lie in the dairy business.
Many farmers are stocking their farms
with an excellent breed of cows and
they find them a source of wealth. But
money cannot be made from cattle if
the farmer has to buy the hay from the
west, or from other states; he must
raise that himself. There cannot be
found on the farm any products which
has a reader sale than the products of
the COW. Butter is always in demand;
cream is easily solo, and in these days
of rapid transportation, milk can be
sold in few hours in the large cities
and at prices which give a nice profit.
Milk which is gotten from the cow in
Garrett county in the morning can be
in Washington by 1870 and the milk
which is six hours old is practically
fresh, Judged by the milk that is usual
ly sold in the city as fresh AS the
days go by, the time of delivery will be
lessened. Surely, there will be a great
advance in the dairy business of Gar
rett county as the years come and go.
The head of coal company in Fair
mont sat in his office one day and look
ing out of his window, saw young man
Longing around his law office, appar-
emily never busy, never receiving any
opportunities for the practice before
the courts of his profession. The young
man had thought that law was his LIES
work. But the head of the coal COM
panyinterpreted his abilities differently,
and offered the young, starving lawyer
position as superintendent of a coal
mine of his which was doing well near
Fairmont
never dug any coal, and how do
you suppose | could be the superinten-
dent Of mine?"
II feel that you will do the work all
right, and Pm willing to take share
of the risk as employer"
"Well I'll try. But III tell you now,
Ive some radical ideas on the way that
coal should be taken from that mine you
speak Of. l feel as though the output
should be greatly increased with small
additional capital"
That's the way like to hear YOU
talk, and anything can do to help
along your ideas, let me know"
Thus the young man had decided to
change his life's work. He entered
heartily into the coal business and was
soon carrying out ideas for increas-
ing the products of the mine.
When the new superintendent took