that formerly supplied a large area of country with a superior
quality of salt, which has not recently been worked.
  There is a fine sulphur spring about live miles from Scott-
ville, at which point a hotel is now in process of erection.
  There is an inexhaustible supply of clay for making brick
near the county site, also the finest clay for potter's work, of
light color.
                        THE PEOPLE.
  The people, as a rule, are honest, sober and industrious, and
all who come to Allen county meet a kind reception. There is
not a saloon in the county, and the consequence is that our
jail is empty nearly half the time. We have no politicians or
tramps. The laws are strictly enforced, the people and their
rights are protected, and universal peace and good order pre
vail.
  Persons desiring information may address J. W. Ham, E. (-T.
Walker, E. Scott Brown, A. M. Alexander, Dr. W. R. Shapard,
Scottville, Kentucky.

                       BATH COUNTY.
  The county of Bath is bounded on the north and east by
the Licking river for 40 miles. It has an area of 400 square
miles, about equally divided, the northern and western p)or-
tion blue grass lands, and the eastern and southern poor lands.
Population 12.000.
  The good lands, like all Kentucky blue grass, produces all
the cereals and Burley tobacco; and Bath is an average county
with the blue grass counties, but in corn ranks among the
very first in the State. The southern and eastern half has
timber and iron ore, but is not productive, except on the Lick-
ing river bottoms, which are about equal to any lands for the
cereals.
  Owingsville, the county seat, near the center of the county,
has a population of about 1,000, is 130 miles from Cincinnati,
and 140 miles from Louisville, and is on the dividing line be-
tween the poor and rich lands, and near Slate creek, which
runs through the county for 20 miles, and is a confluent of
the Licking.
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