The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-04-08
O!FFlCULI 10 BELIEVE.
A 26O-Acre Apparently Worth.
less Hill in Kentucky Found
to be One of the Richest Pieces
of Ground on Earth.

can you ford, without seeing rock in
some form on every hand. Rock, rock
everywhere, so common, so plentiful
that it is difficult for one to believe
that a SIX foot ledge, covering an area
of 260 acres, could be found anywhere
on the globe that would be worth i'll
certain dimensions more than solid
copper or structural steel. Yes, worth
II cents to 50cents pcr pound. Think
of it, rock, just plain rock, but rock
that is found in but two localities on
the globe, the first, one hundred years
ago near Solnhofen, Bavaria, the sec
ond and recently, near Brandenburg5
Ky. Yes. rock, but rock containing
properties that seem to endow II with
life. rock that when given perfect
" smooth surface is SO peculiarly n
sitive that it will retain the impress
sion of ones finger, which impression
can be transferred to paper after being
linked by the roller of the printing
press. What a wonderful rock 1t is. |
Look at the attractive covering and
color illustrations of the current mag
azines, your Christmas calendars, the
life-like busts of beautiful women and
handsome men. They locke like they
were done with the artists brush.
The rock did them, just plain, big
clumsy rock. In the printers art for
the finer illustrationa maps, pictures
in color of person, place or thing, the
rock is responsible; but for the rock
they could not be reproduced, for sci
ence has consumed tens of thousands
of dollars year after year in the HOPE
of manufacturing or finding a sub
stitute only to fail like the old Alche-
mist In his effort to manufacture gold.
Think of 1t, the rock that goes In you
fences or buildings is worth-for IL
lustration:
10 slabs of Bedford stone inches
thick 44x64 inches, are worth $110.
10 slabs Of marble, same size, are
worth $40.
10 slabs of this remarkable stone,
same size, are worth $500.
The following additional startling
comparisons of value will give the
reader some idea as to the Importance
of this valuable find
A ton of coal is worth from $500 to
$500 yet Coal Barons" have become
multi-millionaires as result of mining
this low grade product. A ton Of Lith-
ographic Stone is worth from $500 to
81, 100000.
A ton OF pig iron is worth $l3.
Structural steel s25. A ton of Litho-
graphic Stone is worth from $500 to
81, 200.
A ton of copper ore OF average rich
ness is worth (best mines average
S1-16 per cent? about s25. A ton of
Lithographic Stone is worth from 5000
to 81 1000,
A ton of gold bearing ore from the
famous IIomestake mines, average s..
This mine has paid nearly one hundre
million dollars in dividends with ore
averaging S. per ton. A ton of
"Blue-G Gray" Lithographic Stone aver
ages $500 or 100 times the average
of Homestake ore. =
A ton of copper ore from the mines
of the Amalgamated Copper Company,
averages lis per cent. or $25, yet
the Amalgamated pays 6 per cent div
idend on a capital stock of one hun
dred and fifty-five million dollars. A
ton of "Blue Gray" Lithographic Stone
averages $500 in value or 20 times the
tonnage of the Amalgamated's ores,
yet the capitalization of the "Amalga-
mated" is more than $50 times great
cr.
One acre of the "Blue-Gray" stone
would market for three million, one
hundred thousand dollars. 1t would
take two hundred thousand years for
one acre of wheat to produce the same
money.
Two hundred and sixty acres of a
az foot ledge of "Blue-Gray" Stone
are worth, averaging the product at
twenty-five cents per pound, eight
hundred million dollars. There is lit
tie occasion for surprise at such fig
ures when one realizes that Litho-
graphic Store is used all over the
civilized world, and like diamonds, /
which are TO he found in few locali-
ties, it cannot, or at least has not
been found in a seventy years search.
in but two localities, Solnhofen,, Bava-
ria, and Brandenburg. Ky.
A princely property; a property fit
for a Rockefeller; property, howev-
er, that is not for sale. 1t is owned b
Kentuckians. A small interest in 1t |
must some day be worth a tremen-
dous sum. That small interest can
now be acquired under surprising con-
ditions.
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