Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — Ginseng Gathering Profitable. [ARTICLE]

Ginseng Gathering Profitable.

The gathering of ginseng Is proving profitable at Sang Run, Garrett County. Sang Run derives its name from the ginseng root, which grows along the banks of Sang Run, a small mountain stream. Ginseng is highly .esteemed in China as a medicine, which, It is thought, will prolpng the vital powers, but Europeans have failed to discover any remarkable properties in the drug. The root is called “seug” by the mountaineers, hence the name Seng Run or Sang Run for the stream I® Garrett County. Seng run gatherers of ginseng get from $5 to $7.50 a pound for it green. Solomon Sines, an old banter, has 650 pounds, dry, which commands a much higher price. In China it sells for $6 and $lO an ounce. The most esteemed variety is from Corea. The demand Is so great that many roots are substituted for It, notably American ginseng.—Baltimore Sun.