Report On The Botany Of Barren And Edmonson Counties

Author : John Hussey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656449682
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Report on the Botany of Barren and Edmonson Counties, Vol. 1 written by John Hussey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Botany of Barren and Edmonson Counties, Vol. 1: Part II.; Second Series The ample stores of oak and other ship timbers along this stream suggests the possibility of developing another industry here. Good ship timber can be had in this district at one third the lowest prices ruling on the Atlantic seaboard. Food is scarcely half as clear. So I am confident that a given tonnage would not cost one third what it would in transatlantic ports, as far as these elements of cost are concerned. Coal for run ning saw-mills, where steam - power is preferred, can be had for about two dollars and a half a ton. When built, ships would not want for cargo. They could be laden with timber or grain, and could be taken without risk to New Orleans each winter, though drawing as much as twenty feet of water. This is be yond all needs of vessels of this class. Used in this fashion, there is an immediate and most important source of wealth in our vanishing forests, which exceeds computation. Again and again, on the borders of Green river, I have seen, in a few dozen acres of tobacco clearings, enough noble ship timber going to utter waste by fire or decay to have built half a dozen large merchantmen. If such a demand could be created, there are tens of thousands of acres in every Green River county that would be worth a hundred dollars per acre for their timber alone. In a certain way, the hard-wood timber of Western Ken tucky is a more immediate and satisfactory source of wealth than its coal or iron. It takes less capital to develop an indus try in it, and the competition will be far less considerable. At the same time, in the class of population it attracts to the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.