96 



&l)e .farmer's ittcmtt)to fat sttor. 



A valuablf article.— Mr. William Blake, ol 

 Akron, Oliio, called on us two or three (lays ago 

 and exhibited an article that must, we think, he- 

 come of great value. It was discovered some- 

 time since in the township of Sharon, Ohio, and 

 is taken from an excavation in a rock about 

 twenty feet deep, and spreading over some six 

 or eight acres. The substance is black, resem- 

 bling indigo, and about the consistency of cold 

 tallow, when taken from the mine, but an expo- 

 sure for a few days in the atmosphere turns it to 

 bard slate or stone. It has been found upon 

 analyzation to contain about one-half silica, one- 

 feurth alumina, and one-eighth pyrites of iron, 

 with lesser proportions of magnesia, lime, and 

 carbon. From the extraordinary character of 

 the article, it is supposed by geologists who have 

 visited the mine that there must be some fissure 

 or crevice in the bottom of the ditch, through 

 which the article, in a liquid state, was ejected 

 from below. . 



When the substance is taken out, dried, 

 ground to a fine powder, mixed with linseed oil, 

 and applied with a brush to either wood, tin, 

 iron, cloth, paper, or bricks, and then exposed a 

 few months to the atmosphere, it becomes a per- 

 fect slate, impervious to the action of the 

 weather or to fire; the weather serving only to 

 turn it to stone, and rendering it harder the 

 longer it is exposed, while fire will char the sub- 

 stance to which it is applied before the slate 

 will give way. 



We were shown specimens upon cloth and 

 wood that were as fine specimens of school slate 

 as we have ever seen, and would show pencil 

 macks equally plain. It is also susceptible of 

 the highest polish, as we saw a piece upon 

 wood that was polished, and had the appearance 

 of the finest Egyptian black marble. The article 

 is of much value, we should suppose, for cover- 

 ins roots, steamboats, dams, fences, buildings, 

 and everything else requiring protection from 

 fir,- or the weather, or fur fire-fronts, carriages, 

 or centre or pier tables, as it is in fact slate in a 

 liquid State when applied, and in a few months 

 acquires the solidity of the finest slate. 



We learn from Mr. Blake, uho has secured a 

 patent for his discovery, that it is sold at his 

 place at three dollars per 100 pounds, which 

 will cover the roof of a building thirty feet 

 square, or nine hundred superficial feet.— Na- 

 tional Intelligencer. 



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