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80 per cent. of lead, but the chemist making the test. reported thatit would not 
pay-to work it. In Livingston, lead has been found upon the surface, but has 
not been worked to any extent. Salt wells exist in several counties, but are not 
worked. In Clinton, says our correspondent, ‘a fine stream of salt water has 
been struck on Willis creek, in the northwest, and a company are now at work 
producing salt, and the prospect is considered good. There is a fine opening 
for men experienced in salt making, there being an abundance of water, and 
timber and labor is cheap. Salt for the Nashville market and for the Cumber- 
land river country comes from Ohio and Western Virginia. The cost of ship- 
ping salt down the Ohio and up the Cumberland is certainly much greater than 
down the Cumberland to Nashville.” Salt water also abounds in Metcalfe, 
Anderson, Whitley, Russell, &c. There has recently been discovered a gold 
mine in Anderson county, and its value is being now tested by a company. 
Saltpetre is found in Rockcastle, and limestone and freestone abound in Lewis, 
Trimble, Clark, and other counties. Our Lewis county correspondent claims 
for his county “ the finest ledge of freestone from Pittsburg to Cincinnati, from 
which nearly all the fine buildings in the latter city are now being built, and the 
rock of which the Cincinnati and Covington bridge was built was taken from 
the quarries of this county ; not extensively worked, there being but one quarry 
in operation, employing 200 men.” . 
The timber resources of this State are well known, the finest quality abound- 
ing in all sections, and embracing a great, variety of forest trees of primitive 
growth, furnishing unlimited lumber supplies, as yet but partially developed. 
The soil of the State, however, supplies her chief source of wealth, rendering 
Kentucky peculiarly an agricultural and grazing country, in which latter branch 
she had long ranked among the first in the land. 
Few farmers in Kentucky confine themselves to the culture of any one 
crop, and a mixed husbandry generally prevails, embracing the production of 
wheat, corn, oats, rye, potatoes, tobacco, the raising of stock, &c. Wheat, 
corn, and tobacco are the chief crops, the latter being the principal one for 
export, the corn grown being largely used upon the farms—converted into st ck. 
Our Trimble correspondent writes. 
The tobacco crop in this county is the most valuable. In 1866 the product was 1,916,100 
pounds, but, owing to the drought, the crop of 1867 did not reach more than half as much. 
The product of hay in 1866 was 826 tons; corn, 276,235 bushels wheat, 11,824 bushels ; 
barley, 1,052 bushels. 
Tobacco is also extensively grown in Owen, Franklin, Edmonson, Ohio, 
Christian, Webster, Pendleton, Todd, Graves, and other counties, while wheat 
and corn receive especial attention in Greenup, Lewis, Bourbon, Scott, Har- 
din, &c., and corn alone, the leading grain product, in Laurel, Oldham, 
Anderson, Boyle, &c. In Edmonson tobacco yields an average of about 
800 pounds to the acre, with a profit of about $30 per acre. Ohio county: 
“Our principal and most reliable crops are tobacco and corn, upon which our 
farmers have mainly relied for profit ; first, by the sale of their tobacco direct ; 
second, by the sale of stock fed and fattened by their corn and hay.” Todd 
county: “In favorable seasons the average yield of tobacco is 900 pounds. A 
‘good hand will make 3,000 pounds, which has been sold here for several years 
past at $12 to $15 per hundred-weight. Owing, however, to the change in the 
labor system, the quantity raised is annually declining.” In Graves the yield 
and profit is about the same as in Todd county. 
In Lewis county, “the best bottom lands yield from 60 to 100 bushels of 
corn to the acre, and wheat averages 15 bushels.” Scott county: “ We raise 
an average of 40 bushels of corn, 30 bushels of oats, and 10 to 15 bushels of 
wheat; this being one of the noted ‘ blue grass’ counties, is largely devoted to 
grazing, and our surplus grain is consumed by stock during the winter.” Laurel 
county ; “ Corn is the special crop, average 25 bushels. I last year raised on 
