The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1853-10-26
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l give hfSt ~ al TIA hs@lalsS ~ ANss-
fessor EmIna,.sss Communication 10 the
RsglisF. barring date October IN.
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hans snd NuoIs.- Prof. NfCkfA. Ne. 5.
= -Thsrf eaA be - safe insesnrri a cspi-
sal. heesnse lhrrs . NJ Opposite eus-rEsP.
PfeE MlohsA, ~. 2.
5.-Thers i 10 pTs~peci = lhsrs heing zeal
deposits h CEaih.G. bsnsase fsee is n oouf
Es.ia.. Prof asirlel. so. $
The first az these IS Substantially !
correct; The ether two are false quota
tons. The language ascribed to me is
no where to be found in that No. 8 90
which lie refers, There is much Of an
opposite character in articles of nine
taat have recently appeared in the Re
gis;er. and which his own article shows
sl~t ne had in hand at the tine Of writ
ing il. His whole communication cor.
responds very much in truth and fair
ness 20 this beginning. | might pro-
coed to separate the wheat from the
chat, what Is true from what is untrue,
IfltMere worth the trouble lie should
have seen that such proceeding Of his
Is suicidal. and calculated to bring all
he shall write abaut the geology Of
North Carolina into suspicion and dis
credit. Ii man viii make false quo
tatio from the writings ii an opponent
b cause he thinks his argument requires
IL, what shall hinder him from making
another false quotation from his own
note book. 10 suit a. present purpose, 70
ohliga friend, or for suitable com
sensatiun ! With person who is ca
pa5le OF these things Idesire TO engage
Ia no controversy. The greater num-
br Of the men who are most DESTROYS
OF having il generally believed that the
al fields are very extensive and ya!-
uabie, vii! scorn to fight under such a
lender and champion.
The only passages IN No. s that
make any approach to what DR.. En-
mons represents 10 be there are the
two following. 10 each of which briei
remark or two is appended.
/. .Our only mem. &c arriving At safe con
illusions rs 10 where coal NAV I've Looked for with
q reasonable expectation Of feeling il in large
quantities are furnished ~ The fact that The
spot wlcEe ihs search is msde Is within The area o
roal basin. Bni there j. NJ coal hasin ~ Chat
hsn--only series of oatcrpps, mostly on The
aorlh side % Deep River"
This obviously relates simply to the
surface indications. lfyou know yonr
self to be within the outcrnp II coal
basin, dig where you viii. supposina
that spot Of ground never to have been
maved before. and YOU NAV be sure oi
finding coal 81 the proper depth. BE.
yund the limits OF a coal basin, theresuii
will be more or less uncertain. You
will have To ascertain by actual trial
whether il is present at any place il
large quantities. should not hay,
supposed il possible that DR.. Emmon
could have manufactured ont Of this
his" There is no prospecfof there bein!
coal dfposifts Ia Chafhan because fbcr
is no coal bnsin," if there were anythin;
else to make il of.
with only succession Of small pits h
hin. extending through distance Of Ii miles
and Al average intervals Of about Two miles fTau
each other. and no opposite outcrop. q" eeoingis
he lis abilities. natural Or acquired his Iparan
End experience. what they may, can Tel! whclhe
or mol ..crs is sean Of coal, extending out, lal
a mile, mile, twa or three miles. from th
line II outcrap Three miles is the distance as
sumed by Dr.aEmmons 1t can he no safe invest
ment of capital that is founded CT representation
Of this kind
This ranlark about Investment ha
evident reference to Prof. Emmons'
assumption Of an extent of three iaile
fran the natcrop Of available coal. A
there is considerable nisapprehen
sion on The part Of some persons re
spectiag me time. iabnr, and, Of course
expense, involved in the mere sinkin:
of Tie shalt to a seam of coal that i
very deep, give the following para
graph from r. G. Taylor's Statistics Q
Coal, pages 504-s.
.One Of the gre,test coal enterprises ever NJ
.lertaken. was the siuking Of the deep shaft !
Monk Wearmon,h near Sunderland. This pc
si,ion is four miles heyond the eastern margin
the coal field, shnvh upon the most reoei
geological maps; AMI clase To tho sea- at ID
mouth Of the river Wear"
1.-THE shaft vas commenced on tie .Gth Ma,
1885, In August 1891 the first coal f,rmaiio
was found, which was only one inch and . ha
thick Il vas not pniil eight years and half
Iahour AMI sinkinr through the magnetism liInt
Stone and other nserIyigs ferinations,S that tn
Ma workable seam. Of considerable ,plue an