Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — Valuable Deposits. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Deposits.

At Breslau, L. t, the German settlers have made some valuable dicoveries. In the so called “pine barrens” they have foupd deposits of peat, marl, fine clay, brick-clay, and kaalin. In excavating the, clay beds, tools and Indian arrow-heads have been found, indicating that these were worked ages before the discovery of America.—Exchange. \