Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1865-04-05
Mineral Resources of Tennessee. Goal.

an area of 400 square miles, Co-oxtensye with
this, cool, good enough to be mined with profit Is
found,
In the narrow valley which the Tennessee has
cut through Woldens Ridge there Oro on the north
side of the river rs many rs four horizontal coal.
seams, cropping out successfully below the crest Of
the mountain One that Is worked Is from two to
three feet thick
The following coal-scums exist on Ruccoon noun
tain, near the Nashville aud Chattanooga Railrood
Coal five md half feet including u hund Of
slate.
Coal four loct-Wakers bauk,
Coal three icet-Kellys bank
Crest or bench Of the mountain
Coal fifteen inches,
Coal twcnty-four inches.
Coa twonty-iour to forty inches Vaughn bunk.
The aggregate thickAess Of those seams is about
seventeen feet, while the entire thickness Of the
coal measures in Raccoon mountain wore established
by the State Gcoogist in 1856 at one thousand feet
In the summit ridges, along the line of Marion
and Grunday there is m excellent stratum from
five to six feet thick, and furnishing superior COAL
The Wooton bank is in this. Most Of the property
in which it occurs belongs now to the Scwance Min
ing Company,
Passing to the central and western part of the
Table land, that portion, for example in White
county we find several coOl-strata well developed
One affords four or five feet of coal the other from
which Sparta is supplied, is the lowest, and will
perhaps, average four feet.
On the mountain around Montgomery, there are
several beautiful exposures of coal, and at least
three strata known.
In the vicinity of the salt-works, in Anderson,
an extensive section is afforded, containing not far
from dozen seams Of coal which vary from few
inches to ut least seven feet with AN aggregate
thickness of not less than twenty-five feet. The
banks in Anderson, from which Knoxyllleis in part
supplied, are in nearly horizontal stratum six and
seven feet thick and furnish coal Of excellent quail
ity.
At many points along the eastern cscarpment Of
the mountain, in Roane Rhca and Hamilton, there
are several coalseams and superior banks, from four
to six feet in thickness.
Mr.. Stafford, the State Gcologst said in 1861
"Our coal of good quality and in beds thick enough
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is that there are others in the Same REGION and yicn
ity vet undeyeloped. Those veins orc If varions
length. some of them arc continuous for several
miles, and are generally parallel
Captain Harris reports rs follows ,o tbr uovos-
see Componv. uTbe voin has beon intorsoc,ol IL.
cross-cut two hundred feet from the surhco At
this depth if has greatly imnroved Masso. If sro
yellow sulphuret occur in abundance This is com
,idered as scttno the value If the minos
According 10 the rcnort sevor Of tho mimi. rr,.
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