Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-09

crushed rock, and then New Jersey
gets generous and contributes the
granite pillars and sandstone facings
to adorn it besides.
No Irish pinoch1e' contest ever has
the slightest chance of being success
full or satisfactory to promoters and
participants unless Jersey Made
bricks are declared trumps, and this
in connection with the millions re-
quired annually all over the country
for advancing building projects keeps
Jersey squeezing its clay beds and
sand pits in such way that some
day some humane society will get all
worked up over it. Maybe, though, it
will be too late then.
In no less than eighty localities
little steam shovels are at work Dig
ging New Jersey out for one pur-
pose or another. At Bordentown
husky river dredge is scratching
away at the river bottom, bringing
up thousands of tons of the finest
of white sand which finds its way
all over the country in the beauti-
fully-glazed products of potteries
and ornamental works. One Tren-
ton pottery alone has an annual con-
tract with big wholesale crockery
concern, and to meet this contract
little donkey engine is kept putting
away day after day, driving belt
line operating a string of little dump
cars that spend their existence run
ming back and forth to a rich clay
bed. Somewhere there is an end to
that deposit, but when it is reached
they will just begin on another.
at was a sad day when someone
discovered the value of a certain
kind of Jersey shale for use in man
ufacturing mineral paint, and then
that pretty much all kinds of Jer-
sey shale had a distinctive quality
that made them valuable. The first
discovery has led Jersey to contribute
SO much shale that it is actually
getting scarce in places, while about
one-half the surface covered by
mineral paint wears a Jersey-made
blanket. In many sections of the
State these shale deposits are being
worked. Sometimes one will be let
alone for a little white, but 1t is
never long before they come back
and go to scratching at it again.
Besides the finer output of its
stone quarries all through the north
ern section, the State has been busy
hustling out crushed rock for road
building, nearly all of which is to
make 1t easy going for feet in other
States. If the ocean-to-ocean boula-
ward ever becomes a reality Jersey
will seize the opportunity to spread
itself clear across the continent, un-
less the present tendency is repressed.
''Of course, there is a certain
amount of justifiable pride when the
Jerseyman stands at the corner OF
State and Adams streets, in Chicago.
and points out to the natives that
Jersey has it's label all over the store
fronts in sight. And the Jersey wom-
an may feel keen delight In turn
ing over the teacup of her friend liv-
ing in Salt Lake City and convincing
her by some intricate little twist in
the trademark that her Dresden
really came from Trenton. but is just
as good as if 1t had crossed the seas
and taken the chance of being broken.
And one accustomed to driving Jer-
sey roads may welcome the familiar
sensation when he shoots his car
along q stone-covered highway that
came all the way from his home State
In coal cars. But New Jersey, even
so, is not justified in being too prodi-
gal of herself, for there are countless
millions of unborn to be considered
who have a right to expect her to re-
tain at least enough of herself to
hold up her famous boardwalks and
her historical traditions. "-Philadel-
nhia Record.