Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — Queer Earth. [ARTICLE]

Queer Earth.

They arc dredging some very queer stuff down at McNenr’s basin. They struck it a few feet below the surface and have cut through about 12 feet in depth of it thus far. It is the very embodiment of' toughness. It requires ti> be cut into shavings, as it were, by one passage of the machine, and then in disengaging aud lifting it the ”00 boreepower machine is strained to the utmost, it is very much like dredging a stratum of india rubber. The same machinewould make at least five times the speed and headway through the frioble rock, that underlies our principal streets. Besides being tough, indicating a very large percentage of aluminium in its composition, it is remarkably heavy, much more so than the hardpan or ©rninarv clays of the vicinity.—[Petaluma (Cal.) Courier.