New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-24
Nem2Dork Daily Gribnme.
CHEAP FUEL.
Delaware, Lehish md Wyoming Valley railroad.


To ns Editor Of Tas ~ y TSfbrne
SIR: communication offered in your paper Of the 18th
inst signed Foir Poy and emanatng from some modern
ed as reply 10 Ne Workers. article &C the 10Th April
To Foir Plays" article which abounds in and mis-.
representations propose to make brief reply to such
portions as clearly enough expressed for 10 guess at
that writer's meaning As 70 his ideas CT the value Of the
coal in those valleys regards quantity quality that
there any material difference IS all a0nsease mere gas
persons all acquainted with those immense coal fields
will know that it wholly untrue and that little reliance
can be placed upon snch statements As TO the which
that writer wages upon the Leggcs Gap Railroad Irepeat
what has been before over and over again asserted that
have interestin that road neither have had any com
muDicaton with any of the gentlemen interested in that
valuable pubic enterprise therefore, so much Of Fair
Pays article refers them is unjust and uncaled for
But from my knowledge OF the doings OF that Compa
ny and its general operations and Other works and enter
prises in the Lackawanna and Wyomng valleys know
that Edr Pl0g' has either guessed al matters has been
guilty ofdown right misrepresentation. The main dnft Of
that writer's article TO prejudice the public against the
Lsckawsnra coal valley, one Of the 6e't and richest coal
telds in he State Of PeHHsylraAid To those who
qua nftd with the peculiar c0Htshes OF the people Of the
little village Of Wlkesbarre, lin which place Fair Play
ress will not b. surprised az the very Peculiar riers in
that article expressed Every body must know that
good coal veins be found any where this continent
il they are located Dls from thato has
IL been since the circuit OF that limit only extend
about miles outside OF that place and then foutsde
the limits the coal faulty unless happened 70 belong
10 me citizen of that most favored village. To such
pas have things Of late that it only becomes neces
sary in this age If progress for Of the particular
citizens Of that town the projectors Of the eop fuel
road ~ purchaseany Of the rah moGatqia iands Of
that region and Immediately upon the purchase as if by
m0g they undergo wonderful change and turn out 10 be
underlay ed by the richest coal vens-mammos veins-
mighty Ehe a'h refnS e % Jeef and tie red ash Of 81
feet.'
II might be well give another instance Of the extraor
binary changes that have been going in the Wyoming
Valley since the newly projected road from the village
WIkesbsn 10 tbs City first brought into notice. For
instance the Wyoming Coal Field, according TO Far
Phys" article has crown and extended itself from % miles
20 - miles in length and wonderful may appear
the LackaWanns VALLEY has diminished from 30 miles down
10 only 70 milos and the coal beds Of this Valley have
GwIrded TO almost nothing and poor at nat-whhe the
Wyoming beds have been swelling out and enlargns most
wonderfully Even little Mfy feet vein Of red ash coal
the only one in that Fasy-has reached the 01119h
st-s Of p tetlll
was somewhat surprised reading Far rays"
sYticls BIZ Is statement that the gcy8e a. Cooos Gap
through The mountain had actually rse 70 the same eleva
ton az the summit Of the mountain over wnicn The Dea
ware Lehgh and Wyoming Valley Railroad has to pass,
aud that the gygry road Of nS o., SOo SSm
Tor the Cobbs Gap Road so called 10 get through II with
out encounternx great difcuty-wIndng here and there
cutting under and going over the Pennsy Road aud
performing many other JaH1sfte tricks. Now knowing
hst ther road passed rp the side Of the mountain and
acrots the gorge" that Fair Play speaks Of and with
cut In the least interfering Obstructing the CObbs Gap
Road and wen knowing that the statement Of that writer
in regard to the elevation Of the two roads and the grade
Of Cobb's Gap Road erroneous Was at loss 10 ac
count for his conclusions until had finished his marvellous
production wis the whole matter solved in this wise
On rejecting II occurred 10 me that some months had
elapsed since had visited the region referred TO- and pro-
badly these H1rseOns ckanges which according that
writer, had been going in the valleys below. I'D
tended on. through the gorge" at C0b6s Gap, snd
elevation and contraction bad done its work there also.
fad, fEItA.r, that the Psnng yana Coal Company in
lis financial and other matters has experienced the came
derfr transition and ghereas The 9hole e2peadt1rs
Vi la. Company rarey less than 100000 ma "-l's