Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-24
The Ssni-Weekiy Sfapoafo.
From the Charleston Cuurier.l
FEW FACTS ON COAL AND COAL ROADS

From report of the w eStern tSall hQ2u COMPANY
of North Carolina Connecting FayetteVlle with the
coaI region on Deep River) we take some facts and
statements which may demand attention and further
consideration from readers of the Courier.
In 1920 the first anthracite coal 800 tons, was
,,nt ~ market In 1856 the amount excel ded
100000 TONS
This increase only shows the beginning of the ap-
nlication of coal to locomotion on land and sea- AS
r the consumption of wood and its approaching
"ybanston along the lines of rail road in the older
Nd nonulous States the Superintendent of the New
Vort Central reported, in 1856, one cord OF wood
for every 279 miles run. -,
bsc.,peiled to seek other fuel than wood the facil
tiles and conditions of procuring bituminous or
,ami bituminous coal demand consideration. Penn
Sylyania yields bituminous coal east of the noun
tainS. :,
MARYLAND coal has to be taken two hundred miles
10 Baltimore to find good sea outlet.
The Deep River coal of North-Carona by forty
tbrps miles of rail road can be brought the
ocean as the Cumberland coal is at Baltimore, and
IS Of better quality. The semi bituminous coal of
Pennsylvania requires two hunored mleS ol rail-
road transportation
Taking into consideration the quantity, quality
nd nearness to the Atlantic there is no source of
semibituu;inous coal which can be compared with
Deep River.
We ask attention specially to the following. ex-
tract from the report before us for 1855:
"No roads earn as much per mile as coal roads.
But for the immense cost lowing to the inaccessible
locatioD of coal beds) none could pay larger divi
dends. The Reading Road is ninety-three miles
long and cost $4,000, 900, or 100000 per mile
vet it earns an interest of more than six per cent"
We close these hints with an extractSfrom re-
mort from Prof E. Emmons, NJ. D., Geologist of
NOrth-Carolina:
The Deep River coalield possesses all the essen
tal characteristics Of the better developed ones in
this county, though its extent area is compara-
tvely small Its outcropof COAL or line upon VII hc!
it has been proved TO exist is about 80 miles. This
outcrop runs along the course of Deep River, and is
rarely, if ever more than>a mile from it. On this
line there are eleven different places where either
shafts, slopes or pits have been sunk, and which
have seVerally cut the main or six foot seam.
These coal shafts slopes begin at Farmersville,
the lowest point upon the river where coal has been
fully disclosed From FarmGrsyille proceeding up
the river, we find in succession, MclVers, Egypt,
Ts7lor's Gulf Tyser's and Tyson's, CarbOnton,
Mrs, Binpham's, Murchsons aud Fooshee's. There
no doubt of the existence of coal beyond theex
tremes have named; but these being Immediately
aslt were on the river bank, and all OF them dis
closing the existence of a continuous seam OF coal,
It's evident this segment of Deep River is the most
important one upon which capitalists must rely for
their supply of this kind of fuel Viewing this coal
then, only in the extent along which it has actual
ly been de $Ioped there seems to be no sufficient
reason why doubts should be entertained of sup
ply for long time to come. All doubts respecting
supply OF coal will, however vanish, when it is
considered that even from one of the shafts ennm-
Grated, an ample supply may now be obtained; l
allude to the Egypt shaft these works have been
more fully carried out than at any other point upon
the river Here, there is shaft AGO feet Deep and
sunk 1000 feet within the outcrop. II gives access
to the main or six foot seam as it is called, though
it exceeds that amount.
The quality of this coal is a matter of considera-
bic consequence. Tested in the smiths shop, the
uniform opinion is that it is cheaper for all work
at 10 cents per bushel than charcoal at 5 cents
Smiths at Fayetteville have been in the habit of buy
ing it at that price for several years. 1t contains
large proportion of volatile matter at the same
time it forms, during combustion, a firm, hollow
coke, which makes it so much sough for by smiths
and within which it furnishes intense heat, which
especially fits it for the performance of every heavy
work. In the next place it is a gas coal. This
property having been fully tested in Boston, New
York and Philadelphia it ght he inquired wheth-
er the residuum left is valuable as fuel On this
point too it is fortunate that there is so much tes-
mony Of the value of Its coke, for iG is singular
fact that the coke of many gas Goals is Of little value
The late Professor johnson, whose investigations
in the department of Goals are so well known, gave
very favorable account OF it, entertaining no doubt
of its high heating as we'll as reducing properties
when employed for smelling the ores. In the re-
gon of Deep River the coke of the refuse coal will
undoubtedly take the place of anthracite in the fur
mace and forge.
The composition of this COAL as determined by
johnson and jackson, is as follows:
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