Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-04

occasional, irregular ana worthless
Coal Measures underlying in position
and autedating in age the Carbonifer-
Gus should be in the main Anthra
cite as they are in Southern Ireland,
on the Rhine, on the Lower Junlata,
in Wythe county Virginia, and else.
where. But these are exceptions to
the general rule, just as the young
Anthracite Of the Alps are exceptions
on the other side. For the same De-
woman beds which yield Anthracite
in Perry and Juniata counties, Penn
sylvania, come out from under the
Carboniferous on the Western side as
pure Bituminous beds at Erie. The
same beds which in the Peak Noun
tain of Wythe county, Virginia, are
Anthracite, are Bituminous in Mont
gomery county, not thirty miles dis
tant. The same beds which in Ar
kansas are Anthracite, are in West
Kentucky Bituminous, and the same
beds which are CLASSY Anthracite at
Wilksbarre and Scranton are soft, BIZ
luminous Goals on the Towanda and
Blossburg Mountains, fifty miles dis
tant.
M. Meme is profoundly ignorant of
the whole subject. When he says
that the Anthracite basins are de,
tached from the Bituminous coal field,
he is not aware that they are no more
detached from it than are the Btu
minous basins of Towanda and Bloss-
burg, no more detached than the Semi
Bituminous basins of Broad Top and
Cumberland, no more detached than
are the pure Bituminous coal fields of
Waldron's Ridge, Lookout Mountain,
Catawba, in Alabama, &C., &c. This
geographical detachment has nothing
to do with it. The Anthracite basins
are equally and similarly detached
from one another, and differ in their
qualities Of coal, some being hard
Anthracite, others soft Semi Anthra-
cite. The idea of any one genaeraAzing
in France on the age and origin of
Anthracite who has never studied
the Eastern flank of the American
Coal Fields, is one of those absurdi-
ties which could not be entertained BY
the mind were it not forcibly impress
ed upon us by painful and frequent
experience.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, says: There is a coal
basin near Charlestown, w. Va, that
has never received much attention,
but which is very valuable. There is
SO much coal in this country that val
liable deposits are passed by as mat
tiers of no moment.
We found vein of coal six feet
and a half thick, by actual measure
ment, and perfectly clear from slate
and all ftreign substances. 1t has
never been used but for neighborhood
purposes, and not much inroad had
been made, but enough to demon
strate the vast quantity and excellent
quality.
There is body of this coal here
containing a surface OF some fifty
square miles, but it does not seem to
be esteemed of much value. probably
because no value has ever been real
lied from it.
The more | see of the vast coal de-
posts of the Kanawha valley, the
more surprised am l that Cincinnati
should pass by SO much treasure and
60 twice the distance to Pennsylvania
for her fuel. There is enough within
easy reach of the Kanawha River to
supply her thousand years.
DECLINE IN ANTHRACITE Coal
At the monthly auction sale of Scran-
ton coal in New York on the 24th
ult., there was a general decline
Lump" only selling at the March
price So Az; steamboat and egg sizes
sold at So 474, decline of cents
and Is cents, respectively. Stove sold
at about 81, decline of 10 cents
The Scranton Republican, says that
very great advantages in business, in
economy Of management, and in flu
ture safety are expected to result from
the union of the D. L. & w. and Cen
trail, the expediency of which became
so evident on both sides that the de-
cision was arrived at unanimously.
The Shenandoah Herald says we
believe that the union of the compa-
MES mean a reasonable advance in
prices, not an increase that will dis
courage consumption, but a sufficient
advance to make the business pay
every interest engaged in the pro-