Industries of New Jersey. . sonal estate was valued at $32,392,190. The surfaceis level and the soil generally fertile, though in some places it has required improvement by the use of marland fertilizers; the county is drained by the Delaware and Maurice Rivers, and Salem, Old Mans, AUowaysand Stow Creeks ; the staple products are corn, wheat, potatoes (both sweet and white), hay, etc., and grass-seed is raised and exported in considerable quantities; truck farming is very extensively followed, and theproduce shipped up the Delaware to Philadelphia; the county has many superior dairy farms ; w
Industries of New Jersey. . sonal estate was valued at $32,392,190. The surfaceis level and the soil generally fertile, though in some places it has required improvement by the use of marland fertilizers; the county is drained by the Delaware and Maurice Rivers, and Salem, Old Mans, AUowaysand Stow Creeks ; the staple products are corn, wheat, potatoes (both sweet and white), hay, etc., and grass-seed is raised and exported in considerable quantities; truck farming is very extensively followed, and theproduce shipped up the Delaware to Philadelphia; the county has many superior dairy farms ; watermelons,black and whortleberries and apples and pears are the principal fruit. The manufactures of Salem County arequite extensive, comprising many glass-works, several grist-mills, foundries, oil-cloth works, canning establish-ments, etc. The Delaware River Railroad has its western terminus at Pennsgrove, and the Bridgeton andSalem branches of the West Jersey traverse the county. The county seat is at the city of WINK VAULT, EGG HARBOR V1NEY.\RDS. SOMERSET COUNTY.—Somerset was organized from Middlesex County in 16SS, and its boundariesdefinitely fixed in 1710 ; though these were several times modified, no important change was made until 1838,when a small but important part, including Princeton, was given to Mercer County, and in 1858 Plainlield town-ship was annexed to Union County; the county now has an area of about 340 square miles and a population in1880 of 27,161; in 1850 the population was 19,692; in i860, 22,057, and in 1870, 23,510, and in the latter yearits real and personal property was worth $30,420,071. The surface of the county is very diversified, beingmountainous in the northwest and almost level in the southeast; the soil is very fertile, being a good loam, insome parts somewhat stiff and clayey, in others slightly sandy, with a great proportion of shell dust, and in thevalleys of the northwest there is much limestone; some superior copper has lx;e
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