Jasper County Democrat, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — OTHER RESOURCES. [ARTICLE]

OTHER RESOURCES.

Practical r all the whetstone quarrying of th( United States la confined to Garland ciinty, Arkansas, near the famous Hot iprlngs, and to Orange county, Indiana, n< tr the well-known euloho-sa-line spring of French Lick. The deposits of ttyse fine grained sillclous rocks are extensile In Orange county, but for want of air Investment of large capital the quarriel are now worked on a small scale In a rude way. A fine quality of grindstone h the same formation Is also found and worked in a small way In Orange and kartta counties. Glass ands mpldlng sand deposits are' found In vanouh parts of the state. Glass sand sultaW* forSxlass manufacturing la found In k^dison. s >Biackford, White. Laporte aid Parke counties. In MnJlaan and Blafckfird the gtVss and deposits are utilized by local glasslw-orks. In Parke county §laai sand and dial veins occur In the sami region. Iron orei Umintte (boifcon), hemltite. slderlte and pyrites "occur Martin, Mouraq and Perry countl** and In the Kankalteo regions In St; Jose.% Lake and Porter counties. Before the % B r some fifteen furnaces were kept up mgjdng pig Iron from the best deposits coal fields. After the war only one \mace remained, and that went out of existence In 1898. The Iron ores of Indiana arV too Impure, containing an excess of silica and sulphur, to compete with the Lake Superior] Iron mines. \ Zinc Sulphides occur In small pocketyy deposit* In the coal regions, but this ore \ will new be found In large enough quantities t* mine. Indloha has no Igneous rock in place—that 1», rocks of volcanic origin—therefore, to gold, copper or lead ores will ever be found in place. The float copper and lead and plaoer gold found in various local files of the state, like the granatlo metamorphtc, , volcanic "nigger heads’* bowlders and quarts and other foreign rock fragments which are found In Indlana were brought from the mlner&lbeartag regions among the mountains of CMaada by the great glacial Invasion, which, during the Ice age, extended as far south as Brown county through the center of Indiana, and to the Ohio river in the eastern part and to Posey county In the western part. The placer gold found to the sands of Bean Blossom creek. Brown county, and elsewhere, la of drift origin and will never be found In paying quantities, although small wages have been Wade by Brown county miners.