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Show GOOD EVEN IN THE DISMAL SWAMP. Years ago a credulous tunn bought a "farm" down south. He had visions j ol a southern plantation, wllh darkies tinging, and all that, but the spot was finally located toward the middle of tithe Hisinal Swamp. Nothing could have appeared more' worthless then. Today it Is estimated by C. C. 0a born, in the Bulletin of the United !Siates Geological Survey, that the Idsmal Swamp contains 672.000.np0! tons of peat available for fuel, j This swamp lies in Virginia and Worth t'arollna. It fa not U disical as il was before j the digging of the Dismal Swamp CI nal. aloug with various other ditches, has drained 7wi of Its 2200 square I miles. Much oi this drained land Is now un Ider cultivation. In the remaining I$00 square mill -are found great beds of peat. In depos its ranging from one to 2n feet. The peat is best in the deep deposits; here it Is black anl comparatively fre from Impurities The thick beds lying ly-ing in the region east and northeast of Lake Drummond have b'en excavated soniewhai reCejtU) and peat 18 feet deep has been exposed. Morals (a) there's hope In oven a Insmal Swamp, and (b) there? peat for heat wheu coal has gone |