Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-07
MISCELLANEOUS.
Correspondence OF the New York Herald
LOGAN C.. H.. Va, APRIL 81. Is

LOGAN C. H., Va. April 81 1850.
The Resources Of Ignia The Discorerycf Canned Coal
Internal Improvements, dc, dc
have been oa Tin. about this queer country for time
upwards OF Siderable riding mountain ridges swim
ming impossible streams, camping out In the laurel thicSe
eating corn-dodgcr and baconhc last whereof was rle
ousy fat-and exploring all that worthy oil note in tins
wild land OF undeveopcd rich resources After careful
examination of the premises and obtaining about hundred
weight more or less specimens, have the
that here hercaboutS Is the very spot where
a live Yankee turned loose, would speedily make fortune
The whole country bed OF neurological and sylvan
wealth The very best camel and bumnous coal iron ore
salt and tmbeai within short distance OF market and
contiguous streams which may easily he converted INTO
naviGabe canas-ofier chance Tor tile prohtaot In
ycsnent of both labor ana capital.
do not speak specgatively, but cooly have traced
single of camel coal Of the very nes quality
o thickness ranging from thirty inches To Jour eet from
few miles below Big Sandy tiuyandoe TO within one
mile Logan Court House, distance vi thlrtytwo miles
Above that separated by heavy strata and shalcs OF i9
sand another stratum OF camel coal whose eSac
thickness and extent have exactly dciernind lis
quality, if anything is better than that of its neighborne
deposit have discovered fine stratum oi camel coal In
ra2ewel county sixty miles above here which believe ~
be continuous with this last 1t aerrmics with precisely
the rocks and like the other lies horizontally, and
with similar bearing have two beds OF kidney ore
and very large deposit, on mountain summit of brown
hcmatite and brown oxide of iron The common
btuminous coal is abundant all along Guyandote, Biz
Sandy and Tug As SALT you only tap the
hills, and spring OF brlny water is pretty certain.
Hitherto these riches have been locked up partly from
Of encfs: among the inhabitants an easy honest IN
dolent and careless generation, and partly from natural
Timber pellry aad ginseng and cattle have been
the chief articles Of export. But Virginia, after long
Sleep has walked up and having suddenly discovered the
value of her resources has To work TO bring them
before the buying public Among other acts passed las,
year, for the incorporation OF THE Guyandoiie
Navigation Company" The features OF this are
|. Appointment 0i Commissioners 10 sell stock
2 Capital of $4,000 divided into shares Of $50 cach and
company authorized shckwater navigation, by
OF dams, locks &c, from mouth ol river 10 Logan
C. H. and much farther NAV be deemed practicable
B. Provides mode Of subscription, and that when forty
shares subscribed company be organized under title
given above
1. Power 10 take necessary land for dams &c.
s. When shares the oi S225U0 subscribed
for the Board OF Public Works instructed 10 subscribe
for 900 worth OF stock on the pat oil the State
Sections 8, Z, and contain matters oil police, &c.
learn that this stock IL taken up and that operations
will shortly be commenced The of capital i not
sufficient but il generally understood that when has
been exhausted the State will increase her subscription
The intention is Ia improve far up the money will pay
for The locks and dams thus constructed will afford
large per ccnage from the There be no doubt
that This Improvement, and the road commcnc
ing be made from Abs Valley in Tazewcl county, Il
Logan, through the new county Of Wyoming, which vii
with the fine road lately surveyed from Wythe
vile, BY Col Piper. will form chain of communication
between the great Virginia and Tennessee railroad and tn
Ohio river and devc not only the mineral but the agr
cultural resources OF tits whole ,c";cn had attended
append whole column .. fine rcectun philosophical dc
ductons &c; hu II Wait have gwen don't wake the al
tention of New York capitalists und them thnkin,
nothing that could further would penetrate their dul
souls. shall bring with specimens of the coal
&C. and if they want 10 look Al IT, let them address lete
AT Philadelphia and they shall have the opportunity
shant make anything by that operaton-but the public
will
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