Edward Hart.
October 1, 1924
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Silica Gel Pseudomorph | [1] |
| Peep-Chick Mountain | [12] |
| Round Valley | [16] |
| Mont L’Hery | [22] |
| Death Valley | [31] |
| The Professor’s Story | [41] |
| My Friend Zahn | [52] |
| Just Samuel Jones | [67] |
| Fat and Lean | [83] |
| Woozy | [90] |
| The Hermit | [93] |
| Sandy’s Story | [96] |
| The Hoboes | [99] |
| Jumping Steel | [103] |
| All the Way from Melbourne | [108] |
| A Defense of the Wealthy | [113] |
| The Skin of the Bear | [119] |
| A Visit from the Wileys | [124] |
| In the Days of the Roses | [133] |
| The Red Devil | [151] |
The Silica Gel Pseudomorph
South Jersey is a very sandy country. There are miles and miles of sand there. Some of it is very pure white sand used for making glass and for molding sand. Some of this sand has sharp edges but most of it is rounded as if the grains had rolled around until the edges were worn away. Mr. Kummel has written a paper about this sand in the Report of the New Jersey State Geological Survey for 1906. His paper is entitled “The Glass Sand Industry of New Jersey.” It is a very interesting paper though you might not think so from the title.
There are also very large beds of green and red sand. The green sand is especially interesting because it contains such immense amounts of alumina, iron and potash. If our chemists can only find cheap methods for extracting these substances we shall have enough to last us forever.