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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Ish who wrote (29814)6/24/1999 4:01:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
The Illinois basin is huge and thousands of feet deep. I've studied the geological map, and there are six thick layers of coal underneath my farm in Cumberland county. Coal outcrops in the South and East and West and North of the state. It usually high-sulfur but a very great resource. My farm, at least the forest and hills, are full of 4-6ft rocks pulled down from the Laurentian shield in Canada by the Illinoisian glacier. Unfortunately, the Wisconsinin, whose soils make Illinois so fertile, stops just South of Charleston 20 miles North of me. Southern Illinois is poor, heavily oxidized hard-pan soil, poor land and poor people. Central Illinois is the bean basket of the world. Now if we could just get back to $9/bu once and a while.
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