. Historical encyclopedia of Illinois. g times of overflow. 32 Hard Lime Rock 2 1 The Kaskaskia loam is largely in pasture. 33 Grey Slate 2 8 Some of the larger areas are planted to corn, 34 Soapstone 6 and yields of 40 or 50 bushels are secured in 35 Coal (third vein).. 3 8 \^ m^ ., , « .36 Soapstone, Coal and Slate 25 favorable seasons. The soil makes fine pasture land, and it also produces good corn, but there shaft 541 8 is always some danger from overflow. ^ ^ , • « About 1873 the Company made bormgs from(For further details in reference to present ^^^ bottom of their shaft with the follo
. Historical encyclopedia of Illinois. g times of overflow. 32 Hard Lime Rock 2 1 The Kaskaskia loam is largely in pasture. 33 Grey Slate 2 8 Some of the larger areas are planted to corn, 34 Soapstone 6 and yields of 40 or 50 bushels are secured in 35 Coal (third vein).. 3 8 \^ m^ ., , « .36 Soapstone, Coal and Slate 25 favorable seasons. The soil makes fine pasture land, and it also produces good corn, but there shaft 541 8 is always some danger from overflow. ^ ^ , • « About 1873 the Company made bormgs from(For further details in reference to present ^^^ bottom of their shaft with the following re-agricultural methods and conditions, principal g^its •crops and aggregate of products for the year strata Feet. Inches. 1899, as shown by the Census Report for 1900, j pji-g clay 6 see Chapter XIV. under the head of Agricul- 2 Coal 2 2 ture.) 3 Fire Clay 3 4 Coal 4 Geology of McLean County, as Shown By the 5 Soapstone 12 Shaft and Borings of the McLean County fi Black Slate 7 Coal Company, at the Junction of the 7 Coal 1. / Dark Soapstone Ill 379Shaft 541 Total 920 CHAPTER II. FLORA—INDIGENOUS PLANTS. NATURAL VEGETATION TIMBERED AREA OF MC LEAN COtlNTT FIRST SETTLERS SEEK THE GROVES— FOLSOM MAP OF 1S56 ITS VALUE AS A RECORD OF EARLY GROVES LIST OF GRO\ES IN COUNTY EARLY AND LATER LANDSCAPE ^lEWS VARIETIES OF TREES AND SHRUBS—THE WEST AND FUNKPARKS—PRAIRIE FLOWERS AND GRASSES KEN-TUCKY BLUE GRASS MAKES ITS FIRST APPEAR-ANCE AT INDIAN OLD TOWN OTHER PLACES WHERE IT OBTAINED AN EARLY FOOTHOLD HOW IT WAS INTRODUCED—DISAPPEARANCE OF NAT-URAL PRAIRIE GRASSES—ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAIL-ROAD LANDS CHANGES WROUGHT BY CULTIVA-TION AND PASTURAGE—CAPT. J. H. BURNHA
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