Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-10

Nnlch Tor ordinary purposes -loI the Sldtt,
and As steam and furnace Goals so
highly priced, always being in greater de-
mand and hearing greater price than
Pittsburg or any other Goals brought TO
this market. In fact, il is my opinion, as
already intimated, that yOHr bed is the
same as the "main coap' Of the Pulaski
mines.
The foregoing estimates and remarks
have referred wholly to what have
called your "main bed" In addition,
may state that you have a reasonable chance
of finding on Your lands another bed OF
coal below this, which, at some points at
least, will prove to be of workable thick
ness. The outcrops OF lower bed has
been seen, but as yet no opening has been
made in it, and we cannot be certain that
it will prove to be of value. 1t occupies,
however, the position of a bed which
have seen at many points both in Ken
tucky and in Tennessee, and which often
presents a good thickness and yields a good
coal Mhe Mckee bed of Pulaski county
holds about this position.
YOUR MARKET.
The market is as great az you can desire.
Your barges can deliver coal at any point
on the Cumberland river below yOur mines,
and if need be you can carry il into the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers. But the rich
valley Of the Cumberland from yonr mines
to Smithland, with its cities and towns,
mills, factories and iron works, presents an
ample field in which to establish trade
that will bring into requisition the highest
productive capacity of your entire works.
The field is right at your hand, and yon
can 10 a great extent control il. For the
first time you present TO us Cumberland
river coal company, that, with mines be-
low the serious distinctions in the river
and with Grst-class fixtures, proposes to es>
tablish, or rather that will soon be ready
to commence a systematic trade, and 10
run steam ting with barges reg
ularly and consecuhvely for at
least six months in the year You
will be able, with handsome dividends
to yourselves, TO materially reduce the
price of coal on the Cumberland. You
have peculiar advantages, plenty Of good
coal, a short railroad, wholly your own,
river navigation, a good country about your
mines, where supplies are abundant and
cheap, and the only market for which You
yourselves create.
With constant supply, at proper rates,
the demand for coal, though now great,
would soon be quadrupled The annual
consumption in Nashville is estimated to
be about 500, 900 bushels As to the whole
sale price, ] can give nothing very definite,
il has been so variable, going up or down
according to the supply. In ordinary
times it ranges from fourteen to thirty cents.
During the war il was often higher than
this. Its present price may be put at about
twenty or twenty-five cents, for Cumber
land river coal. Nashville must be, and
desires to be, a manufacturing city, and for
this she asks for coal, coal, cheaper coal.
Factories, mills, machine shops Of all kinds
and especially bar-iron and steel works,
flor we produce, within easy reach Of Nash
vile, the best crude metal in America
will spring up all about the city, if the coal
be forthcoming. And to what can We look
with greater faith as one great source of
supply than your enterprise?
FARMING AND TIMBER LANDS, RAIL
ROAD, ETC.
The following, handed to me by the Pres
ident Of your company, is list OF the lands
owned by you in fee simple:
/. 1890 acres, embracing seven tracts on
Poplarsnd Short Mountains, and covering
the coal.
,. lbs acres on a spur of Short Moun-
tain.
3. 40 acres on the line Of yoar railroad.
4. ~ acres near the railroad-pine tim
her land.
8. 424 acres farming lands with improve
ments embracing a steam saw and grist
MILL houses for employees, etc
6. 80 acres farming lands on the ROwena
road.
7. 459 acres timber lands running 10
Cumberland river below Rowena.
3. 1856 acres farming lands on the noun
tain. ......
The company also own:
1000 acres exclusive mineral privilege
conveyed by deed Of record in the respec-
tive offices
10000 acres, fifty years lease, with one
tenth royalty.
The timber on your land Is amply suf
hcient for all your purposes. A consider
able amount oft Is yellow pine. Much of
the farming land is of good quality, and
some Of it very Gne.
length, and willrun directly from the mines
TO the river, al the mouth Of Indian creek.
Much Of the gradingis done, and al would
have been done by this time but for the
veryunfavorable and unusual weather since
Christmas. The cross ties have been cut
and delivered, and the entire work is being
pushed on with vigor. The iron Cor the
road-a good quality of ] rail Of forty eve
pounds 20 the yard-has been purchased,
and il is intended that the road shall be
ready for cars some time in Nav. 4 loco
motive Of twentY-une tons weight has been
purchased, as well as a steam toWboat the
latter al A cost OF $4,000 The towboat Is,
or soon will be, on her way from Pitts
burg, with barges, cars and rails TO your
landing on the Cumberland.
OF CoAL-NAvIGATIoS OF THE
CUMBERLAND.
It's intended to commence the shipment
Of coal 50 soon as the road is ready During
the summer, while the river Is low, mining
will be going on, 80 that, when the river IS
mp again in the fail, large quantity Of
coal can be shipped at once.
To make the river nayigable for your tug
and barges from Rowena TO Nashville will
require nothing like the rise necessary 10
hoai hatboats from the Pulaski mines over
Smiths shoals In the former case, rise
Of FIVE feet will be sufficient, while in the
latter itrequires from eighteen TO twenty.
You are, by water, one hundred miles
below The Pulaski mines, SaRh's, Wolf
creek, Wild Goose, and Indian creek shoals
being above you. There are, too, large
Tributaries, and among them the Big South
Fork Of Cumberland, emptying into the
river below the Pulaski mines 70 give Won
water when, perhaps, the river above might
be little affected.
Daring the boating season, navigation
GA the Cumberland, from Rowena down,
compares very favorablv In several respects