Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-12-15

Rich Iron CRE from Graham's Ore Banks IN
Wythe County. Some very rich and uhusuai,
known 10 minera 'oeisls as Brown Hemaihe' rom
which Mr. Graham says Steel can ne mace
This is fund in great abundance IN WY'ne
county. co
Coil, Of superior lchress, from Wyihe Conn
~. ,,so
BURR Mill STONE, from Wythe Count; a's'
{. uud IN Washington County.
SuLpuATE oF BARYTEs. from Wyhe Couhy. -
GYPSUM 81 Plaster, .! Suiphate OF Lime, I'm
Smy,h aud Washington Counties. aeVc'a' 'pe
meas very rich, giving al! The varieties
NATIVE RocK SALT, containing smah qusn'i,
" OF ea,ihy mauer, penetrated in sinking !he oai
Wells Of Washington and Smyin couh.'es, hls
samples Of coarse, common, ana 1a'iy y. ~ 70
salt manufactured al those wel's-ali very ""'.s
and pure, being entirely free from all o'ne' SUI
stances. ,u,.b-
RIcn Iaos ORE. from Sharpe's banks IN WASH.
iuslon county with specimen 81 Maguehc i'o"
Ore from same banks. c.rrolI copn,v
Iarrp niecss Of CRYSTAL from Calfoil eou"J
Tauthe above minerals are iounu Oh duu o ne'
The line OF the LynchbuIg and tennessee '"''-
Isos Oae of superior quality found throusho aa
South Western Virginia, IN beo'o'u eo'"''' -"
in ST Tennessee po.noLe
Coal of surerior quality is found in hoanoSe'
Montgomery, PULASKI, Wylhe, smith, id%s"e'''
Russell, Scolt, and Lee counties. ,ouer
There is erea, abundance oil .walef Po~ei
throughout, South Western Virginia, 70 WON "e'
minerals and Tor other manufactures; u.,bo
Manganese Of ricn quality is found 10 "plne,
Smyth, and Washington counties. WI. o'N
expecs specimens OF This article IN lew uaS'
The above list indicates the exhaustless urea
sures Of South western virginia-to say no.
thing of her fertile valleys and hlll-s'oes'
Bu, Kanawha county also presents her NINE
raj wealth to the admiration of the State 10
tho same Cabinet of minerals is fine specimen
Of Camel Coal from Kanawha, equal IN la'-
ness and beauty to the best English coal we
have already spoken Of the veins OF 1his coal
discovered on the lands Of w. NJ. Peyion on
Coal River; but the Lewisburg Chronicle brings
10 notice rich veins on Elk River, and on the
lands Of Aaron Stockton, ten miles below Inc
Great Fails of Kanawha The latter nine IS
represen,cd as superior to any yet discovered
The Editor Of the Chronicle has himself oeeh
in that bank, "aDd examined it particularly
The coal is If the very first quality, hard as
Hiut, and blazes up like tar. The distance from
the floor 10 the roof is between seven and eigh'
feet. The Camel Coal lies between two layers
of bitumnous coal, and the vein IS from hVe u
six feet in thickness according to our recoliec'
lion not less than Eve feet we are certain. Inc
coal in its natural state, stands in blocks or p'i
lar, which after the removal of the vein OF oi
luminous coal from above, may be priced ou'
with little difficulty in blocks frequently weigh
ing one hundred pounds. There is no slack oil
fine coal among it. Mr. Burnet. who was Dug
cling 10 the bank al the time. assured US he couie
dig two hundred bushels per day with ease
We regard this coal as extremely valuable, in
6nitely more so than the common coal. one o.
the chief objections 10 The latter cannot DC
urged against the Camel Coal. You cannot sol
the larest piece of paper by rubbing it on
piece of the Camel Coal II leaves no cindei
at all 10 burning, and very small per cent o
ashes. We feel assured there is any quantity
it in the mountains Of kanawha, and if so the!
are invaluable
Let suitable means be adopted to bring all
these treasures ato market, and Virginians vii
have no inducement TO abandon the good ole
State for the gold Of California, or the teemint
fruits of the great South and West. Let US DC
all we can to develope the resources which W.
have. inexhaustible, at home, before we Gu
loose the ties that bind 10 our own state, tt
pitch our tents at the setting of the Sun IN The
West. At the same time we would not dePre
ciate the extraordinary discoveries in our new
territories. So far from relaxing the energies
of our enterprizing people, and checking th'
triumph of Yankee genius and industry, they arr
we'll calculated to throw open to our farmers,
merchants and manufacturers the boundless trade
of Asia and the great Pacific. Let US continue
our liberal commercial intercourse with all tn
world, and national prosperity and happl
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