The Cecil Whig., 1869-06-26


market for the product of this mine will b'
the railroad, for the use of the Locomotives
and cars running on this division of tht
Union Pacific Railroad.
At Point of Rocks, &c miles further east
the Wyoming Coal Company have severa
veins of fair quality. varying from three tt
five feet in tn ckness. Their collieries are
connected with the railroad by switch ol
short branch of two miles. Near the same
point Hall & Co. are working five-feet
vein of similar coal, and connect theil
mine also with the railroad.
At Black ButteS. eleven miles further
and nine west of Bitter Creek proprietor
known by the familiar appellation of Jack
Morris, is working a tive-feet vein of coal,
the produce of which is brought to the rail
road by 4 switch of three -fourths of mile
in length.
Near Rawlings, the Rocky Mountain Coal
Company, the owners of the Evanstown
Collicries, have a magnificent coal field
three veins thirteen feet, twenty-six feet
and forty feet, the latter is said to be the
widest coal vein i'll the world. The coal is
very bright and clean to handle, and burns
with short flame emitting great heat but
little gas. When used for locomotive pur-
poses it is necessary to have the tire-grate
raised. 1t is of no use for making gas and
will not coke, but it can be used success
fully for smelling iron ore i'll its natural
state. The collieries are half a mile from
the railroad, and communicate through a
switch.
4 few miles further east, in the direction
of Laramie, a few hundred feet from Car
bon station, with which it connects by a
switch, is a 6! feet vein of coal belonging
to the Wyoming Coal Company. This is
the only instance on the line in which the
coal is got out by verticle shaft. In every
other it is worked by tunnels or open drifts
This concludes the list of the principal coal
veins known, and now is worked. 1t is
somewhat singular that the finest coal and
the largest deposits are just over the res
pective submits, and on the outer slopes of
the great plateau between the summit of
the Wasatch range and the summit of the
Rocky Mountain range. 1t may be advisa-
BILE here to explain that the summit of the
Rocky Mountain range is actually crossed
near Separation station, though the depres-
sion is there SO great that the apparent
! summit and much the highest elevation is
! found at Sherman, on the summit of the
spur known as the Black Hills.
IRON.
| There are in the Black Hills not only de-
/ posits of iron ore equal in extent to the
largest known on this or any other con-
tinent. but they have the remarkable adj
vantage of comprising in one area three
! classes of ore, which in making the best
metal must be worked together, and which
in other parts of the United States are
widely scattered. In the immediate vicin-
/ ity of the Denver road coal-bed there are
deposits of what is known among iron men
as kidney iron. There are also in this
! country miles of hills of ore of the red OK
/ idle and black magnetic varieties combined.
| and of the hematite variety. Prof. Haydn,
of the United States Geological Survey
/ Office, accompanied by Prof Silliman, in
spected these hitherto unvalued iron dis
/ tricts last autumn, and reported hundreds
| of thousands tons of rich ore of the finest
/ quality in sight. Prof Haydn is reported
! to have said that there was more iron in
boulders more easy of access than any or
binary mine, than would supply the western
/ side of the continent with iron for Il gener-
alton.
/ North of Cheyenne twenty-cight miles,
! at the head Of Chingwatcr River, is Iron
! Mountain, which some say exceeds the IA
nous Pilot Knob in extent of its mass of
ore. 1t is said by Cheyenne men to be the
finest iron mountain in the world. and the
supply of ore is equal to any demand, how
ever rapidly the consumption may increase.
! AMINERAL RAILROAD.
| \ company was organized by special act
of the Territorial government, last winter,
to build railroad from Cheyenne to Ching
water. Companies are now being formed
! for the purpose of erecting works at sew
eral points. One company propose to make
rails both of iron and of steel. For the
latter purpose they have bought the sole
right to use the Bessemer patent in that
Territory for royalty of p ton.
THE COST OF MAKING IRON.
The cost of making iron at Pittsburg,
apart from the construction of works and
wear and tear of machinery, &C., is said to
| be from $22 to SEQ. Ironmakers who have
visited the Cheyenne and Chingwater dis
tricts, say that apart from the construction
of works and wear of machinery, &C., the
cost of making iron will not exceed $40 a
ton. They make out that result from these
data, the ore will cost not too exceed 50 a
ton at the furnace, and all the varieties of
ore necessary for mixing are at hand
They say that Pittsburg makers have to
bring black magnetic and hematte ores
from Lake Superior, and black magnetic
ore from Iron Mountain, Missouri, where
they have no coal and use charcoal only, to
Pittsburg-for mixing with their own Penn
sylvania ores to make good metal. Coal of
good quality can be had down along the
Cheyenne and Chingwater Railroad at s.
to Sc. Limestone for tluxing is on the
ground. Therefore, the iron men of this
district say, with all these advantages,
that if the trade of the western shore WILL
in some time not very remote, equal that
of the eastern shore, SO somewhere on the
Black Hills, near Cheyenne, there will
spring up Il great iron and hardware manu-
featuring town, furnaces, forges, rolling
mills. foundries, and thousands of homes
of industrious workmen. In short, that
somewhere in these elevated districts there
is to be Il second Pittsburg.
Mrs. Betsey, c. Sargent, of Windham,
n. H., died recently at the age of ninety-two
years and over. She was born, mrried, and
} died in Windham. She never took medicine
for any triing ''ills that flesh is heir to, y
r never wore thin shoes, and probably avera-
Tcl roinr to bed ut Q or 10 n'cln,E in the