New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-20
COAL AND IROA-vIBGLNIA IND FEST
VIRGINI1. .. .. .

The iron deposits in Virginia and West Virginia are
equal TO- # not extensive than, those in Pennsy
yania Along the line Of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad are found inexhaustbe deposits of superior
iron ore From StauntOn, Va, TO the White Sulphur
Springs in West Virginia, distance of 100 miles,
there are very large quantities Of valuable iron ore
Also along the line Of the James River Canal. west
of Lynchburg, is found superior iron orc in great
abundance In fact. the entire Allegheny range of
Mountains in both Virginia and West Virginia, ex-
tending $50 miles, from Maryland to Tennessee. are
filled with iron ore in quantity and quality equal TO
the most valuable deposits found in Pennsylvania,
the largest quantities being found east of the main
Allegheny range of Mountains, and west of the Blue
Ridge .. .... ...I .. .......... .......
West of this vast area OF iron orc deposits is
to be found the Appalachian coal field of West Vir-
gina which, in extent is greater than the coal field
of Pennsylvania. For the coal field of West Vir
ginia is estimated to contain 1890 square miles
while that of Pennsylvania Is estimated to contain
2,G5G square miles. The coal area of Great Britain
is estimated to be II, $3.50 square miles. .......
Tie Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad aud the James
River and Kanawha Canal when completed to the
Ohio River viii pass through tho very heart and
center OF the coal and iron deposits OF Virginia and
through the New River Valley and the Great
kanaWha valley 10 the OhlO hlYcr, distance OF
200 miles cutting at right angles the most erf6nsr6 de-
posts Of superior camel spnf and bitnninOns coal
knOrH IN the uOTd Coal remarkable for its superb
oTity in generating steam, smelling iron ore, and
in making gas, and unsurpassed as fuel.
Thus in Virginia and West Virginia and especially
along the line Of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
and the line of tho James River and Kanawha Canal
are 10 be found in great abundance and of superior
quality two great elements Of nations wealth.
coal aud iron. IT'D 'I ODD "'" % . t.'.i..t ...H
Not long since Mr. Gladstone, in a speech delivered
in the English Parliament, said the commercial pros.
peTty of Great Britain all other countries was
attributable chiefly TO her coal deposits and their To-
cation near iron oTe-that coal and iron In close
proximity to each other constituted the snbstratm Of
EngldHds commercial prosperity ..f ....... ...
The same may be said of Pennsylvania. II il the
development OF the coal and iron of that State that
constitutes the basis of it's wealth and power
And what has been done in Pennsylvania may be
done in Virginia and West Virginia and eren 10 a
gItdfT degree For the deposits Of coal and iron are
more numerous and varied. and more favOrably To-
Gated for thorough development by means of Vir-
gna's central wator lns aud railway uniting the
Great West With the Atlantic scabOnrd
PeDnsylyana capitalists have already commenced
investing III thus coal and IRON region In the past
few weeks Hester Clyncr w Firnstone and others
If Pennsylvania have bought very large tracts OF
iron land III Allegheny County. Va, near both the
canai aud RAILROAD. ~ .0..