74 GEOLOGY OF ILLINOIS. 



We have much faith in the future economic uses of peat. And 

 although we would advise due caution in the expenditure of money in 

 experimenting with it, nevertheless we would like to see some of the 

 Stephenson county people expend some capital in developing what we 

 believe to be a source of material wealth. The peat experiment is not 

 yet, perhaps, fully solved, but whoever does fully solve it, will not only 

 enrich himself, but will confer a great blessing upon the inhabitants of 

 these northern prairie counties. 



