The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-05-10
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

oorhood OF Lamasco. We hope and DeheVe
he will be entirely successful. But others
have already commenced testing this under
ground wealth of Evansville or vicinity, and
with the best prospects OF success. Messrs.
c. Bell and Rudd, commenced sinking
shaft the first of the year, on the North bank
of Pigeon Creek, near the bridge. about two
miles from the city. At the depth Of ninety
three feet, they met vein Of coal eighteen
inches deep. From the developments in the
neighborhood, and the geological evidences,
they will strike the main vein, and reach N
inexhaustable quantity of coal, when they
have penetrated the bed of slate through
which they are now digging. They have the
advantage of plank road to the city, and
by making a switch track OF two hundred feet
in length, they can have the advantage Of
the Railroad. They were the first gentlemen
to try the experiment of sinking shaft for
coal in this vicinity, and their enterprise
should have the proper credit. they and
Mr. Kersteman are successful, as we believe
they will be, Es ansville can obtain full sup
plies of excellent coal right at home.
Some gentlemen of Louisville have deci-
ded, we believe, to sink a shaft for coal OF
the late DR.. McDowel's property, just below
the city, provided the experiment now in
progress at Pigeon Creek, prove successful.
We have no doubt they can find plenty Of
coal there. Indeed, we do not believe a
shaft could be sunk two hundred feet deep in
any spot in Evansville, withou: reaching coal,
and coal of excellent quality. This is a coal
region. We are surrounded by coal. Our
railroads and canal pass through the richest
mineral region. Along the banks Of the ca
nal, in some places, and not far distant from
this city, the coal has been exposed to view
by the digging of the ditch. A great deal OF
this coal will compare favorably with tie
Pittsburgh coal, and none of il is inferior to
Louisville. In two or three years, inc xhaust-
able quantities of this mineral will be opened
to our market, even if the experiments allu.
ded to above, of digging coal right at the
edge Of the city, should fail.
In view of this fact, and the fact that a
great deal of this coal is admirably adapted
to manufacturing purposes, and can be
brought here and sold at FIVE and six cents
per bushe, with good profit, and recollect-
ing that we have also abundance of the
best quality of iron ore close at hand, and
are convenient to the cotton regicns-wha,
point in the whole West possesses greater ad
vantages for a manufacturing city, than Ev-
ansville! We have already presented facts
and figures in this connection, which render
ed indisputable the fact, tina; we have proba.
bly, greater advantages for manufacturing
than any other city in the West. We
have repeatedly urged this great fact on the
public, and at the same time appealed to our
readers to present them on every occasion,
TO come here and start manufactures. These
appeals have been responded to in part
Some manufactures have been started, and
more are in contemplation. Half the work
is already done in getting the pioneer manu-
features here. Their success will probably
be a stronger inducement for others to come,
than all the facts which can be stated in
newspapers to convince them of the advan-
tages Of this point for manufacturing.
1t is altogether unnecessary to use argu-
ments to convince our citizens, that commerce
alone will not build up city here, even re-
markable as are our commercial adv antages
To build great city, commerce and manu-
features must go hand in hand, and mutually
aid each other. We have thus far done all
in our power as community, to develop and
increase the commercial advantages OF Ev-
ansville. We have, indeed, done nobly-
and at the same time we thus labored, we
have been indirectly increasing our manufac-
turing advantages. But we have not done
all. Our work is not yet ended. We want
now, by every means and influence in our
power, to induce the establishment here OF
more manufactures. No matter what kind
they are-anything that helps produce al
home those things our necessities and enter
prise demand, is one step forward. Wemust
have these manufactures, and they are
bound, from the manifold advantages of this
city, to come sooner or later-but action ON
our part may hasten the day very materially,
and thus hasten on our genera! prosperity.
OF A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times, who writes from Helena, Ark, states
that the examination Of the Martha Wash.
ington conspirators commenced on the LIST
before three justices. A man named Cupp,
who was passenger on the boat at the time