Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-10

extent to twelve thousand square miles. or one
THIRD the surface of the State" The present
amount of coal dug, including that consumed on
the spot, is estimated at the following here are
gwen the names and quantities in II counties az
gr gate %, 500 000 The above is probably an IN
estmaten $50 s'The town population of
Ohio will in half-a-dozen years. amount TO half a
million, aud this viii require ifs millions for
household coRsumptiohi while the foundries, fac
tories, and shops of all descriptions, will REQUIRE
twenty-five Millions . ssWe see that in.
dependent of the coal consumed at the mines by
furnaces. FORCES and other works FORTY millions
OF bushels viii be required in the towns and will
require transportation one half by railway. which
will make eight hundred thousand tons in addition
to what the railways now have" sIn the To-
terror of the State, told coal twenty cents
is deemed cheaper than wood at IS But at Chilli
eothe, Columbus Circleville, and many other inte-
rior towns, the coal be had at eight cents; and
in these towns the consumption is increasing rap
idly"
Again in the report Of Nathan Hale, Oh the cost
Of fuel on the Boston and Worcester Railroad in
the year 1855, comparison is given between the
use of coal and wood. With rood the cost of full
per mile, of e. ch train, SO.4I.O: with eoaI
50 1915. DeB0W copies article from the louis
vile Pric Current, parts OF which bear direerlv On
our present infect: 1.-The coal trade of the o 10 is
beginning TO assume 10 inconsiderable iu portance
The Illinois coal basin, where it is cut by the Ohio
river, is in the very heart of the American orapary
minons species; Is OveIlsid by sandstones of supe-
rlor quality, and rests refractory claws said to he
equal TO those of Stourbridge England Iron ore
indefinite in quantity and excellent in kind almost
in ju1taDosition, while lead is not of unfreuuent-
occurrence. These Goals in strata that average
perhaps four feet in thickness, and resting immedi
ately on thin bed of soft shale are easily min, d.
Generally, they are reached by 'adt levels and
sometimes as at Canneton, are self-draining. The
cost OF mining and delivery at that point, is stated
TO be three and one quarter cents per bushe Tor,
about eighty-Ve cents per ton the royalty is usu-
ally one cent and the present price is six cents by
wholesale or to barges and fat boats; seven cents
delivered to steamers from box boats The Can-
Melton cotton mill is supplied at five bushel,
| or $I.40 per ton."
! The writer then proceeds to mention in detail
the various mines worked in this field beginning at
| CloVerport, Ky. He then enumorates the Camel
| ton, Ind; Hawsville, KY; Lewisport, KY. Bon
Harbor, KY: Newburg, Ind; Bodian mine at Ev-
| ansville, Ind; Henderson, KY; besides various
mines the mouth of Saline river, Illinois and
Tradewater river, Ky. He adds: "The Tradewater
district" land your lands are situated on It's head
watrrs) filled, as it is, with coal iron and lead
will, at some future day, rival that of the Mersey
! and Ribble, in manufacturing importance" =
1.-The Union coal mines the lowest on the river
These mines are IN the highlands nearest the con-
huence Of the Ohio and Cumberland. The Illinois
Central Railroad cuts the lower southern out-crop
OF the Illinois coa-feld, about seventy five mile S
from Cairo, aud great reliance has been made on
coal freight by the engineers of that road. At low
cost OF transit (say two a ton a mile, S so
| for the seventy-ive miles,) the coal from this
source, delivered on bsrges at Cairo would cost at
least niue or ten cents the bushe while an equva-
lent article be furnished from the mines on the
river at seven or eight cents per bushel." The
demand for coal between Louisville and the Balize
Is Variousy estimated. Some who profess to have
examined the markets with care, have stated il as
! high as thirty-ive millions of bushels a year. = =
| ut appears that coal, of which ten bushels are
equal to cord of cotton-W God, can be delivered on
the Lower Mississippi at thirteen cents a bushel,
and yield fan profit. This EQUALS cotton wood at
81 80 a cord or less than halt its average price,
Fifteen dollars cord for pine wood has
been paid at New Orleans, by Louisville boats,
within the past two years. Five and six dollars a
cord for cottonwood has been no unusual price, on
the Mississippi during the same times" "Tnis
! is certain, that the demand for coal will increase
more rapidly than the supply. In lS45 the sales
at the Cabneton and Hawesve mines amounted
to only $4,000 bushels. NOw, this quantity anC
more is required every mouth when the river is
navlgabie." "Until the last two years thai
s&ilful, thrifty boatTan, Capt. Sturgeon could moi
be induced TO coal except in his cabin. Now
the Eclipse often leaves Ohio with 10 900 bushels
upon her decks, even to the displacement o
freight"
g But the steamboat and the sugar-mil demand
| for the fuel OF the lower Ohio will soon be ncOn
ufacturing purposes In few years the men o
energy and capital in the ill wonder at thei
own blindness in not approaching and properly de
Veloping the immense natural advantages afforded
by the minerals, the fuels, the subsistence, and b.
the easy transit the lower Ohio for the manu-
facture OF their own great staples They will thel
understand the perspicacty of that veteran manu-
iactuFer and statesman, Richard Cobden of Eng
land, who years ago declared that the chief seat
the cotton manufacture must eventually be on Oh,
coal fields OF the central west, where heat power
iron, subsistence, transit, and material could b,
brought together and combined cheaper than any
where else IN the known world"
VI.-CONCLUDIHG REMARKS
Having thus endeavored to point out a few 0
the numerous advantages TO be attained by devel
oping the mineral and agricultural resources @
your region through the medium of extensive es
Adjustments for mining and manufacturing, ant
through the aid of a railroad connecting your land
with market, suffice it TO say, in conclusion, tina
we know OF no district of country having a fair
prospect, under judicious management, with Tn,
necessary capital, of enFiching its owners, as wei
the inhabitants of the counties in which it is sit
uated and while so doing of contributing also it
due share, in the great Ohio and Mississippi valley
70 make Ol' favored land that which it must event
ually become, the greatest producing aud adRufac
turing country iss tie LoOrid.