Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-22
FROM THE COAL FIELDS.
An Episode and Tough eustOmer-A Flnan-
oial laquiry-Back ia the Mines
The Tennessee Pacific
Road.
lis Route Through the MOuhtalns-ka-
homes Necessities and the Bal
timOre and Ohio Road.
w1NTEs's GAP, CUMBERLAND


nessee outstanding. A great portion
of these were filed up and signed By
r. Clay Crawford, who inhabits /
palace twenty miles from Philadel
phia. He owns two yachts and {
small steam frigate, in which he i:
accustomed to take his visiting
friends, as he did the State Bank, on
20 ses. Crawford made money by re
cruitiug negro regiments and selling
them to New England States at si1
dollars per capita. He abandoned
this business when he discovered the
blank notes of the Bank of Tennessee
in ths vaults of the bank at Rogers
vile 1t is q little curious that this
Cmwford new issue of the Bank o.
Tennessee sells at forty. FIVE cents, and
at this rate is freely bought by bank,
ers. 1t seems that an opinion of At
tornay General HeiskilI has given this
extraordinary market value to these
bogus bank bills.
INCLUSION or EUROPEANS.
The movement of populations Of
different countries is the most con
spicuous event of modern times.
These hills and valleys, and noun
tain sides, and coal, copper and iron
fields are rapidly occupied by people
from all European countries. The
agricultural poor Of England are
most debased, the worst d and
clothed and paid Of any class in Eu-
rope. even as the mOney-lendeTs and
land holders of the island are the rich
est in the world. Cheap agricultural
labor lies at the very basis Of the aris-
tOcratic features Of English landed
property, and of the English tenant
system. The emigration feature
slowly reaches this lowest stratum Of
English society, and here in the midst
of these coal fields one encounters not
only miners from Wales, Cornwall
and New Castle, but there are Eng
iish and Scotch farmers and herds
uneu in the valleys, and shepherds
with countless ti0c6s everywhere in
the Cumberland Mountains. When
the good fortune that blesses these
people is made known In Europe,
while the cost OF location is
continually Iessened, a fatal
blow viii be given to the
whole system Of English aris-
toerstic life. It's stated that a very
small advance in the cost Of intro
dueing wheat in England will render
the business prOfitiess. Steam and facts
To which I advert rapidly equalize the
distribution Of populations, fact de-
mOastrated everywhere in Eastern
Tennessee where every European lar
guage, even that Of Yorkshire, is
yOlubly spoken.
NEGROES AND FOREIGNERS.
It's a curious fact that while all
these Europeans were abOlitiOnists,
: ,Ney have, in practical everyday life,
an uncomfortable aversion to negroes.
In mining villages of five or six
inhabitants, the negro labor
ers dwell In little huts, far above the
vslIevs in which the whites have
their cottages. Negroes are not suf-
Jared to become miners. Wherever
thew have been employed the miners
strike and negroes are not permit
ted to acquire the art OF extracting
coal from the pits. Natives OF the
country become expert coal diggers
and prefer a miners life to that OF q
farmer. They are promptly paid, and
ton in the shade.
.gxTENF OF THE COAL FIELDS.
In Winters Gap, through which the
Pacific road must find its
wsy into Virginia, are found the
richest. most valuable cOal fields.
The Baltimore and Ohio road is forced
10 extend its western connections.
Malone, the Virginia railway king,
brings the Virginia system OF roads
through Cumberland Gap to Louis
VILE, and there Maney's Pacific road
will find its eastern terminus. Then
the Baltimore and Ohio road viii be
shorn OF its western resources. The
Pennsylvania Central lies just north
OF It and extends from ocean to ocean.
MshOHe's system Of roads gives Louis
vile its shortest route to the Atlantic,
and the Baltimore and Ohio must
buy or build roads to the Southwest.
Il will be q bidder for Maney's Pa
cific road, and perhaps would buy the
Memphis and Charleston. Its sole
resource consists in the ownership OF
eome great highway extending it TO
the Mississippi river.
A SUGGESTION To RAILWAY BUILD
ERs.
It becomes the province Of
the builders OF the Tennessee
Pacific ROAD to pass the noun
tain range through coal fields that
will nav for the cost Of tunneling. 1t
NAV be true, and ] suggest it TO Gene
raj Nancy, that this stratum OF coal
that crops out at Winters Gap
"a horizontal, and that the tun-
aal may be made through the coal
bed itself, and fuel extracted may pay
the eost of peTforating the mountains.
II MeBsy'5 road follows the valley Of
New Htger the tunnel required will
not be more than half & mile in length.
The coal is not only abundant in
this mounts58 gorge, but as valuable
as that Of which / wrote from Coal
Creek. 1 find specimens OF camel
and bituplinous coal. The latter can
only be quarrisd in rectangular blocks,
and other specimens most lUStrooS,
present q greasy looking fracture. II
Is wholly free from sulphur, and IS
used Ia smelling furnaces instead Of
coke.
MINERAL SPRINGS.
The \ N-alue Of this property in Win
tssr5s Gap cannot be exaggerated. 1t
= owned by Messrs. Ross d Reid. and
HfeFWen q Wiley, all Tennesseeans.
FTsrd,v less valuable than the coal
aaids sra the extraordinary mineral
sT-;1gg rS-i,, - die, covered in the midst Of
lbjs =" harrow valley. Within thirty
ysrds SQUARE ther,N are seven springs
b1bbling 10 through creylees IN a
bTosd stone. one deposits msgnesia,
shree others sulphur, white. BLACK and
rel ar5ther deposits iron, anu anotn-
on contains q strong solution OF saHs,
epsOm. / think. IL any differ nom
- % n4his point they need only drink
a qHart. It is very harmless. a Do9t
the place there are Tams1ns OF fE1e
pottery, such as is found IN the
graves OF mound builders, ana
Shout the ancient artificial lake
! ,tghteen miles from Memphis in Ar
-sn. 7as. In the stones through which
lba y,,o. .ter rises little reservoirs have
mem ont by hands that Withered
eountless CENTURIES ago, and this Sc"
eIufled sDot Is destined TO become, as
ia bygone ages, TIE resort Of the sick
and. halt AID pleasure-seekers
through all coming time. Strangely
# h true that the temperature Of these
springs side by side, as they are, diff
fers thirty degrees. Two OF them
are almost boiling hot. Winters
dan of which ] write, is eighteen miles
so1t invest from Coal Greek, whence
I wrote Yesterday. You must know
1bst the hills and valleys Of East
tennessee and these mountain ranges
nm from southwest to northeast, and
mus tie necessity for the course 1
hsve defined for the Tennessee Paclfe
road.
THE WEALTH OF TENNESSEE