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where, instead of being more cheaply turned on the 

 spot where they grew. Spokes and axe-helves could 

 be produced at the lowest cost. Now, Connecticut 

 comes to these Delaware woods and takes away 

 quantities of hickory logs, converts them into spokes 

 and axe-handles, and then brings them back among 

 the very people where the timber grew, and where 

 they could be more cheaply turned. It is the same 

 with manufactories of agricultural implements, with 

 tanneries and other indispensable employments. 

 But one of the greatest wants is a development of 

 the vast deposits of muck which are found in many 

 places. These masses of decayed fertilizers are de 

 posited in basins along the creeks, many feet in 

 depth. But so far they have shared the general 

 neglect. It will be the task, as well as the remune 

 ration, of enterprising settlers, to seize and appro 

 priate these abounding deposits of manure. 



Until within a very few years, Delaware has been 

 a comparatively sealed book. It had but one or 

 two railroads. There was no thorough view of the 

 country to be had no ready ingress, no ready 

 egress. Moreover, it was blasted by dominion of the 

 slave power, and few desired to know what it really 

 was, because none were willing to remove into a 

 slave region. Land was consequently unsalable ; 

 but this condition of things has undergone a mighty 

 change. Railroads have been built, which open up 

 to public observation a region heretofore of difficult 

 access to travellers, slavery is certain to be speedily 

 wiped out, and immigrants are pouring in. Even 

 yet the price of land is very low, ranging from ten 



