The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-16

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J. FIsK's NINE,
On Clear Creek, belongs to No. II.
Coal seven feet thick; three-fourths
Of mile from the railroad.
ARNoLD's BANK
Is ene-half mile from the railroad. 1t
is No. 9 stratum. It is regarded as
the best coal. 1t is FIVE feet thick.
There is also here No. II. Coal seven
feet.
R0BERTs0N.s BANK
Is one half mile west Of the railroad;
No. II coal seven feet.
4. W. EARLE's BANK
is half mile west OF the railroad;
No. II coal seven feet.
COL. a. TONNES BANKS.
There are four or FIVE of them. No.
8 coal five feet This belongs to the
vein regarded as the best. It is very
superior coal.
TALlFERRo's BANK.
This is No. 9 coal, more than five
feet thick. 1t is four hundred feet
west of tho railroad and forty-fve to
fifty feet above the track Of the road.
SCOTS BANK
Is No. II; east of railroad 300 yards.
HENDERSON SEMINARY BANK
Embraces No. IL and No. IL, and is
Ii feet thick. The two strata are
separated by a thin line of fine clay.
The coal is of superior quality. 1t is
over a mile from the e., II. & N. r.
r., but is only few hundred yards
from the line of the Elizabethtown
and Paducah Railroad.
RoBINsoN's BANK
Is block coal. 1t is enc half mile
west of the railroad, seventeen miles
north of Hopkins7ille, fifty-nine miles
south of Henderson. eighty nine miles
from Nashville, and seven miles from
the crossing of the e., Fl. q N. Rail-
road, and the E. & F. Railroad. The
vein is three and a half feet thick.
1t has been mined extensively and
hauled to HopkinsVille, and points
south of that, by wagons. | have
compared it with the Indiana block
coal, and have seen others compare
them, and all concur it was block coal
of same quality. There is much ccal
OF the same character IN the vicinity.
OTHER MINES AND BANKS.
1t would consume too much time
and space to enumerate and describe
the many mines opening on the line
of the road. Drew Woolridge's, Will
liams' Green's, Drasher's, Cordier's
and many others, are similar to those
mentioned. The fact is, the whole
country, from near Siaughtersville to
Brasher's mine, fifteen miles north of
HopkinsVille, is underlaid with coal
from No. / to No. II. Mines can be
opened at hundreds of places along
the road, and for miles they will be
from level with the road bed to si2A
| ty feet above the road bed. Most of
these mines and all of the veins are
described in Owens Geological Sur
Vey of the State, In volumes 1, 3 and
4, and the analysis of the coal given
of number of them.
IRON ORES.
The State Geologist, DR.. Owen, in
vol. /, page 50. speaks of the import
ant beds of iron ores, included in the
lower coal measures, In Muhlenburg
and Hopkins Counties, as belonging
to the family of Limonites or brown
and yellow hydrated oxydes. The
analyses of these ores are given at
page 1886, vol. !. In vol. 4, page 397,
he says: " At b. Lafoon's the red
ochfeous iron ore of No. II is two to
three feet thick and very rich; the
coal appears to be absent here" On
Col ToWnes' land adjoining tracts
there appears to be a vein of ore from
seven inches to eighteen inches thick.
There is also said to be stratum of
ore Immediately over the coal in the
mine of Earle and McEuen, on Hunt
ing Branch, two and half miles from
Madisonville. l doubt if iron ores
have yet been discovered in Hopkins
in such quantity and of such quality
as to justify the smelling. But in
Muhlenbugg and Lyons Counties, on
the line of the Elizabethtown and
Paducah Railroad, within twenty and
forty miles of the block coal on the
e., FL. and N. r. R., there is
great abundance of iron ore of supe-
rior quality. The old SuWanee
Furnace, in Lyons County, formerly
Kelly & Co., consisting Of nearly
1900 acres, now tho property Of
Gov. Charles Anderson, of Eddyville,
KY, and other iron lands on the Il
& 2. II. R., furnish an unlimited sup
ply of ore of the best quality ID.
Hillman q Co.'s Furnace, Kelly q
Co.'s Furnace (Suwanee), and others
have been supplied with ores from
this vicinity in Lyons County. The
iron smelted at these furnaces, / am
informed, is of the best quality, and
has been principally used in the roll
ing mills of D. Hillmau, on the Cum
berland River. These ores, and the
ores from the Cumberland and Ten
nessee Rivers, and the Iron Noun
tains of Missouri and other points,
can be cheaply shipped by river and
rail to the block coal on the Evans
vile, Henderson and Nashville Rail-
road for smelling, or the coal shipped
to the river at Henderson, EddyVille,
Paducah and Nashville, to smelt the
ores and roll the iron, and manu-
facture the same at those points.
MANUFACTURES.
There is no good reason why Hen
derson, jacksonville, the crossing of
the Evansville, Henderson and Nash
vile Railroad and the Elizabethtown
and Paducah Railroad, Hopkinsville,
Nashville and GAINESVILLE should not
become the sites of extensive fur
naces for smelling the ores SO readily
and cheaply to. be reached by water
and rail. The block coal, which can
be used for smelling In its raw
state, can be cheaply delivered at
any of these points from the Evans
vile, Henderson and Nashville Rail-
road, or the ores can be cheaply
carried to the block coal on the line
of the road. At Brazil, Indiana, on
the Terre Haute and Indianapolis