Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-10-14
North Carolina.

A correspondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser gives very interesting account Of the
mineral resources of Chatham and Guilford cOun-
ties in North Carolina. We extract as follows
On Deep River, in the county Of Chatham. beds
Of coal Of excellent quality may be seen cropping
out in many places very convenient and accessible
and in a way so inviting that they seem to say
Why don't you take me out ~ The coal is of BIZ
tumin, character though much superior to the
Cumberland coal. almost free from smut. Some
specimens recently found resemble the celebrated
NAL coal.
Owing to the want of means of transportation no
coal has yet been mined for market; but soon as
the river improvements and the railroad to Fayette-
vile completed, several companies will be ready
to send coal forward. One company have, at Farm
Vile, already opened shaft slope in regular
seam two three hundred feet, which is ready for
being worked. They are now putting up steam
engine for working it, and have all the necessary
buildings erected.
At a place called Egypt, another Northern COM
panY are testing their lands by boring and from
evidences already broug up will no doubt, be
successful in finding satisfactory deposit At the
Gulf, on the Haughton property, quite the riv
er is valuable bed of fine bituminous coal, crop
ping out for a long distance.
In Chatham, Randolph and Guilford counties
there Indications of deposites of copper scatter
ed all over the country and many parties are test
ing mines,' as they term it, but in reality only
searching for them, and in hap-hazzard sort of
way.
In Guilford visited one mine containing we'll
defined lodes, which have been regularly opened for
working, and from which much valuable ore has
already been raised and shipped to market, via the
Fcntress Stith NINE belonging to the North Car
Olina Copper Company | went down of the
shafts to for myself, and did see, vein of ore
rich in quality and apparently increasing in size
from which | " mined " pretty a specimen of
cupreous any proprietor would like to look at.
From this shaft-ahout one hundred feet deep-was
taken, while sinking it, the large quantities of rich
ore which so astonshed every one, and proved it to
be mine of great value.
That iron, coal and copper are to be found of rich
qualities and in great abundance in the coun ties of
Chatham, Randolph and Guilford, no one can doubt
who will take the trouble to travel through them
with his eyes open. There, enterprise properly d.
rected, and capital judicously employed may find
returns sufficient to satisfy almost the boundess
pidty of man, amply reward him for the more
| laudable desire to make available the treasures
which Providence has so bountifulIy deposited for
his And when the river improvements and the
rail and plank roads, in the of construc-
ton, shall be completed, there will be flowing
from that region a current of wealth that will
prise even its citizens. Old Rip will rub bis
eyes in establishment that he long slept on such
pile of treasure and will, anon, factories villa
ges and cities spring up where now, lands remote
from market give poor reward to the husbandman
and where water falls in boisterous gee, waste
rugged rocks their useful hut neglected powers
With almost every mineral within her bosom
with fertile lands producing nearly all the necessa
ries and many of the luxuries of life with abun
dant water power with climate unsurpassed by
any State in the Union and-not least in the &C
count--with reputation spotless. the Old NORTH
State is destined to high place among her sisters.