Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1859-07-19
From TIE Richmond Enquirer.
The roal River NAVIGATION Company.

holders BIZ the Coal River Navigation
COMPANY. is before rs. 1t is a neat
pamphlet with map Of Coal River rel
eion III Boone and Kanawha counties.
Va; from the job Office Of Richie.
| Diannayant 81 Co.
Coal River formed by the confu-
fence Of Big Coal sriver and Little.
Coal river, empties into the kanaWha
liz miles below Charleston and 4S
miles from file Ohio river. These
valuable coal fields were discovered
about 1s4S and the charter granted
| IS the company next, year.
Owing. to the lowness of the Ohio
annually, coal cannot Be shipped bnt
during eight monthsif1 the year. from
November t. July, from the mines to
Cincinnaii and other markets. Since
| December, 1858, the coal companies
Fat. Peytona have shipped from the
big Coal River $50, 900 bushels Of
s.IPeytona camel coal, 4 and these
companies. namely, the Western min
ling and the Virginia Camel Goal
companies, are now shipping about
100, 900 bushels per month from Coal
River to Cincinnati, Louisville. New
Orleans, Boston, New York, Phila-
delphia, &c.
As soon as the two COMPANIES aa
Briar Greek and ManningsvilleI are
id operation, these four companies
/ will do an immense trade in the coal
IIshipping. 1t. isknown that the coal
/ fields in this region, cannot, be sur
passed BY any other for the superior
quality, richness and abundance Of its
local. .i
i In this report Of Mr. Thomas L.
i Broun, the President Of Coal River
Navigation Company, We find the
following facts, which deserve 1t.
Etention 81 .i
Z From the forks Of Coal to Boone
| Court House, on Little Coal riyer,I a
distance Of 20 miles, and from the
forks to Marsh and Clear forks Of
1 Big Coal rivera distance Of SO miles,
veins Of cannel coal are found from
/ 8 to 4 feet lii thickness, and OF splint
/ coal, from 8 to 6 feet in thickness,
land Of bituminons coal, from 4to51 10
feet ia thickness. And the quality
Of these GOALS is not surpassed BY those
of any other eoaltregionl in the United
States. Il .#
4. If coal can be prefitably mined
and shipped from tho UpperOhio aud
/ Pittsburg coal fields to Cincinnati
land other markets below, certainly
| millions Of bushels of coal could be
mined and shipped annually, with
greater profit, from the Goal river
4 coal mines; for the Coal river coal
I fields possess great natural Albania,
/ qesoyer tile coal fields near Pittsburg
i First Of all. The coal fields of Goa
I river are $50 Males nearer Cincinnati
!. 1.-THE great mart Of. the Western Goa
Itrade) than the coal fields Of the Ale
]. ghany, Monongala and Yeughioghe
!, NY are
/. Secondly. The navigation Of tht
4 Ohio, bezoao the RanaachasR sver
fis frequently open for several weeks
whilst the Ohio river at, Pittsburg i
/ frozen and blocked mp with ice.
& Thirdly The navigation Of tn
! OHIO is, of course, much, better, NOR,
reliable and more regular, from TIL
mouth of the Kanawhr down than j
ellis from Pittsburg.down.
'Fourthly. Thecoal fields Of Goa
T river, taking them all in all, are mucl
9 superior to- the Pittsburg coal fields
Capitalists from abroad are be
ginning to appreciate these great nat
/ ura1l ady0ntoges, which are possesse
I'll in common blythe coal fields situate
/ on and near the Great Kanawha, an
ii itstributaries. Coal and Elk rivers
d Within the last six or eight year;
d upwards Of one million .of.dollars ha
been invested, by capitalists from Eli
q gland, Germany, New York, Phils
! delphia, Kentucky and Ohio, in an
= upon coal properties lying on Goa
Kanawha and Elk rivers
! With the navigation of Kanawh
!. and Elk rivers improved, assured
!. the coal trade of Coal river, Of K;
nawha and Elk rivers. would sui
ply Cincinnati and the lower market
and the coal trade Of. this regio
/ would then IN aJso gears suppressed
). THE vast coal trade of the Upper Oh
hand Pittsburg, at all points belo,c y
= mouth of the Ranaohd..
r. II There Is certainly the material
q this part of Virginia to make it
u VERY wealthy, pdpnlous and inauel
4 ttial portion of the Old Dominion
af Nature has been lavish in Il
wealth bestowed npon this region
Il country remarkably well tfInbere
B. we'll suited for grazing purpose
er finely adapted 70 the cultivation
I the grape and misunderstanding pm
ng air, good water, and "a salubrious' &
y mate, having soil naturally ferti
Y 1.-THE very tops Of the hills, and me
dausti5ly.rich IN coal, iroa md 50
al --theday, therefore, must come, VIII
H. tl,;a narYI,trxy ~ Ill ha4ilfad with an d