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and Linn counties the veins are from 2 to 6 feet thick, awaiting development. 
Our Osage reporter says : 
A seam of coal averaging about 20 inches in thickness extends from the northeast to the 
southwest corners of our county, about 30 miles, and from 2 to 4 miles in breadth. It crops 
out in a thousand points, and is worked in at least one hundred places. It is worth $5 per 
ton delivered at Burlingame. 
A similar vein crops out at various points across the county of Woodson. 
Limestone and several varieties of building stone abound in many counties, 
supplying a cheap and valuable substitute for timber in fencing and building 
purposes. In this connection our Miami correspondent writes as follows : 
We have excellent stones for fencing and building, and they are so placed in the mounds 
that they occupy but little space, yet they are upon or near every quarter section, and can 
be seen at a distance as they project from the top of the mound. These stones are of about 
the right size and thickness to make a very nice and durable wall or fence, and are easily 
hauled down hill over the smooth surface of the prairie. These fences, when built of the 
white and eray limestone and brown sandstone, are in beautiful contrast to the rich dark- 
green verdure of these lands. I have on my Stonewall farm 1,700 rods of fence, mostly of 
limestone, built within the past seven years, with my own hands. 
Our Leavenworth correspondent says : 
We have a soft sand rock which hardens on exposure to the air, very light, porous, and 
strong enough for building purposes, and makes the dryest house ever built, consequently 
the warmest in winter, and pre-eminently the healthiest dwelling known. I have tested this 
rock, and speak of what I know. Very little is yet known of its valuable qualities, but in 
time they will be appreciated. Fences can be made of rare excellence, and at reasonable 
prices, that will endure and harden for ages. 
Building stone is abundant in Chase, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Osage, Wood- 
son, and various other counties, the varieties found in Woodson being of a 
beautiful white texture, capable of a fine, smooth polish, and is suitable for 
tables, mantels, tomb-stones, &c., and so perfectly stratified as not to vary one- 
fourth of an inch in thickness in blocks 10 by 12 feet square, and these strata 
range from 2 to 18 inches in thickness. The supply is said to be almost 
unlimited. In Bourbon a species of black marble abounds, easy of access, and 
claimed to be equal to the best Italian marble. Lead is found in Linn and 
Bourbon; salt in Pottawatomie, Miami, Doniphan, Saline, &c.; feldspar in 
Washington; gypsum in Marshall and Saline. Gold is reported in Potta- 
watomie, but extent not developed. 
There is much superior hard-wood timber in Kansas, but generally there is 
little more than is required for local uses, while in some counties there is a posi- 
tive dearth of wood, though in such localities forest trees may be rapidly grown, 
and their culture is being encouraged by the legislature of the State. Our 
Allen county correspondent reports the finest quality of black walnut, oak, 
hickory, hackberry, &c., many of which will make 4,000 feet of inch lumber. 
Wyandotte claims to be the best timbered county in the State, and under the 
demand for wood, land selling for $40 per acre is paid for by the wood alone. 
The bottoms of the Missouri and Kansas valley produce immense quantities of 
the yellow cottonwood timber for fencing and common building purposes, selling 
at $15 to $20 per thousand. 
4. Corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, and hay are the crops of general cultivation, 
the first-named being the great staple product—the crops of 1866 being esti- 
mated as follows: Corn, 6,527,368 bushels; wheat, 260,465 bushels; oats, 
200,316 bushels; potatoes, 243,514 bushels; buckwheat, 20,402 bushels; bar- 
ley, 7,255 bushels; rye, 4,548 bushels; hay, 123,082 tons; tobacco, 22,263 
pounds. More attention is being given to wheat, and as the soil and climate 
are entirely favorable to this culture, there will not long exist so great a dis- 
parity between the total amounts of the two leading crops. Corn has been 
