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

TIE srsnt table iands 81 Che u8mberlnnd have
Al assa Of zoe Square miles Co-sxtshslve with
thIs, eoal good snoash % Be mlaed VIII profit e
found
In The narrow vailsy, which The Tennessee has
out through wsldens Ridge, there are on che nerth
ode Of The river many ss four horizontal coal
seams cropping oi successiveiy below The crest Of
The mountain. One that IL worked Is fsou two 70
threa feet thick
The following eosl-eeams exist on Raceeon noun
tain, near the Nashville and ChslsAscoga Rsilroad
Coal I've and half feet, including band Of
aiAte
Coal foas fest--Walkers back.
Coal TIRES fesi.-Ksily's bank
Crest or bench Of The mountain
Coal fifteen inches.
Coal twenty -four inches.
Coal tventy-foar 70 forty inches yaugbn's bank
The aggregate thiekAess Of these seams Is about
seventeen feet, while the entire thickness Of the
coal measures in Raecoon mountain we're established
By the State Gsolcgst In 1855 1t one thousand feet
In tho summit ridges, along he line Of Marion
and Gfanday, there h an excellent stFatam, from
I've 70 six feet thick and furnishing superior coal
The wOosen bank L In this. Most Of the property
In which Il occurs belongs nov 10 The sewanse Min
ing Company.
Passing 70 the central and western part Of the
Table land, that portion, for example, in White
county, We and several c0al-strata we'll developed
One affords four OF Eve feet Of eos the other, from
which Sparta Is supplied, Is the lowest and viii,
perhaps, average four feet.
On the mountain around Montgomery, there are
several beautiful exposures Of coal, ssd at least
three strata known.
In the vieinity Of the salI-wUrkS IN AndersVn,
an extensive section L Afforded containing not far
from dozen seams Of cOal, which vary from few
inches 10 at least seven feet with aggrsgste
thickness ef not less than twenty-five feet. The
banks in Anderson, from which Knoxville s ia part
supplied, are In nearly horizontal stratum six and
seven feet thick and furnish coal Of excellent quail
lily.
At many points along the eastern escarpment Of
the mountain, In Roane, Rhca aad Hamilton, there
are several coslseams and superior banks from four
70 six feet in thickness.
Mr.. Stafford, the State Geologist said in 1851 :
~our coal Of good quality and in beds thick enough
70 be probably worked b at least equal in the ag
gregAte, 10 solid stratum eight feet thick and co
extent 10 four thousand four hundred square mieF
or, In other words, equal in volume 70 cold block
of coal eight feet high, twenty miles vide and two
hundred and twenty miles long. This for the pres
ent, we give as 8 safe estimate, though believe
the quantity TO be grestsF'
The varieties ara numerous. Most u theua Per
hAps, are semi bitaminous, dry burning Goals, bat
| others are properly bItaminous.
Thus it appears that our Stats Possesses mex
haustlble supply Of iron and COAL the two great in
usransnls of-rnodsrn wealth and civilization.
COPPER.
The copper mines Of Polk county are situated in
adjoining the Georgia line.
/ Within an area not more than six Males long
and half as wide, thershe al least seven or eight
distinct and remarkable veins, and the probability
l. that thers ara others In the region and ycin-
length some Of them are continuous for several
miles, and are generally parallel
Captain Harris reports a. follows 10 the Hiawas-
see Company: aThe vein has been intersected By 4
cross-cui two hundred feet from the surface, At
this depth il has greatly improved Masses Of ane
yellow snlpharet occur in abundance This Is con-
sdered as setting the value Of the mines"
According 10 the report, seven Of the mines pro-
duoed ia September, 1885, l,sosl77 lbs, or a little
more than so1l tons. The value Of this ore was
about $4,000.
Eight mines have produced end shipped I4,29
| tons, worth more than = miIiiOa Of dollars The
| HiAwAssee alone shipped Al sc tOns-about two
seSenths Of the whole. Copper Indications are very
promising in MohrOe, Bloant, SEWER and Cooke.
LEAD AND ZINC
At many points lead and zinc ores oecnr, many
Of which promise to be Of great value. There is
hardly county in East Tennessee in which there is
not lead ore And il also oecurs Ia Middle Tonnes
see. At several points in Jefferson county zine orss
occur, the most important Of which occurs on Messy
Greek. Another locality Is near Dandridge
From Noisy Greek on dowa through the New
Market Valley, and lin southwest direction, through
Kno1, Car Loudon, on the Tennesses river zine
ore Is found Al numerous points.
An that i neeied 70 make copper, lead and zine
q source Of wealth 10 people, 5 capital and Is
Dor. Nature has done her share muniaesntly Wei
come 10 army Of free lahorsrs to our muniaesni
territory, vAoss bowels TEEN with insxhaus;ible
riches t-Yashgilis TtsaSs.
PePROnal.