Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1858-09-21
The Mineral Wattrs Oh The Burning
Mountain inl Pennsylvania.

Nearly twenty years ago, u co;,l raine
At Coal Castle, Sa Scllaylkill coainty,
Pennsylvania, Was set ion fire BY / Z
carelessness Of s6me MINERS, VITO wer4
engaged IN worlahs it. but who paid the
penalty Of their fault with their Ewes. -
7 Yet ever since, HaB that Are continued to
burn infthe deep recesses .of its cavern
Gus heart, and tie mountain that contains
It still continues 10 emit The smoke and
gas of an adtiYe yoieans1 1t does moi
belch forth strfaFns Of melted lava, MOI
will it ever DID, sp5 bdttlie probabilities
are THAT il. will continue 10 burn for a
hundred years toseone, ualess The adsen-
turous miners of That Safe exScavate The
COAL which feeds (he FIRE, before that pc
Rod arrives; and III ffactEthe process 81
excavation is now going pn4and the mi
ners are at work hundreds Of feet be-
low the base Of the mountain, and tile
lowest point to which the fire Las Vel
reached. Il has extended on the vein Of
coal, which il knowa as the Great Mann.
moth or q jtguIar'a vein, ranging from
80 to 100 feet inEthickness, over a mile
from East to West. The water running
from the mouth oil The old mine is as no;
as the waters1of the Hat Springs. IN Bath
county Of this Stateg and forms as bold 4
stream as that flowing from The White
Sulphur Springs Of Greepbrier. The
gases which the water contains are4car.
bonic acid gas and nitrogen, and The
mineral substances principally sntphate
Of iron, suEphate OF fimagnesis, or epson
salts. anfmonia, alumina, DO. with sui
phr~ic acid md carbonic acid.
The Hot1springsI Of Virginia contain
free nitrogen and pxy gen1gases, and the
salient ingredients are tie carbonate .oi
lime. sulphate Of lime, sulphate Of soda,
sulpliate of 1lmagnesia and silica, with ira
ces Of the oxide Of iron, These Springs
ere celebrated forIthe many wonderful
q res they have mades We have re.
cently seen gentleman, well known 10
the people 6f Richmond who went there
partially patalyzed in his limbs, and una
ble to help himself. yet he came away in
ten days, comparatively we'll.
The mineral waters Of the Burning
.Meuplain DC Pennsylvania, though not
Of The same character, nor as certain q
duration as the mineral water ofthe Hol
Springs, are sin found to possess virtues
mot Nc attaiaatile in all the nlalefia medica d
I the healingart And efforts are.noW be.
inc made u renler1th water accessible
10 the public. in. the shape Of baths and
wells, Mr. SalatLiel Hafries, a gentle
man engaged with MI. DeBow 10 deyel-
opin4 lie coal, lead land other minerals
Of Virginia, and new! at Farmviile. in
Prince Edward county. was the person
who, at tile -immshse risk OF hiss life,
brought out the bodies Of the unfortunate
men who first setfthe Burning Mountain
on FIRE. II was i fearful undertaking
for Tho destroying fumes of the azote and
carbonic acid gas hlled every hole and
corner of The mine. But Mr. Harries5is
a fearless ana reliable miner, as well al
an intelligent man, who has seen more
u mining life adyentureand accident in the
deeps{lark bowels offthe earth, than any
NAH probably, now|living. He has beer
ems ged!in dhe deepest Names inthe world,
and has wandered fof mills beneath the
ranging billows Of ME sea. He was one
Of the first to open the anthracite Goa
mines Of Pennsylvania, and has long
been successful in exploring new regions
for COAL. iroa &c. }To such men vii
Virginia owe her future existence as
mining and Manufacturing State, in con
nectionf with her own capitalists and en-