Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-06-26
From the Ohio State JopFnal.l
Gallipolis, Macarthur & CO.
1umbus Railroad.

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N ,We.pre in receipt Of several
copies Of pamphlet containing
q report ofthe mineral resonr-
ces on the line Of the proposed
Gallipolis, Macarthur s&. Co
lumbus5 Railroad, together
with a veryna beautiful litho-
graphed tnapashowihg the geo.
cross disections Of The
mineral strata tinc Vinton. land
Galliai counties, through which
.thiseroadbwilh also aaimap
Of f'the railroad system Of Ohio,
showing the local and cOnti-
mental connections. formed by
,therrroad, especially Its links
with the Chesapeake and Ohio,
and the Farmers and Miners
railroads for Atlantic, w est
and Northwest traffic. le35a.
Pc p The report is made by VIII
liam Griffith Jr, Of Gallipolis,
TO the President and Directors
of the Gallipolis, Macarthur g.
Columbus road, and is a very
complete expose Of the mineral
wealth lying contiguous to the e
line. He He gives q full analysis
of the Varioussqualities of iron
ore and coal found in the dis
trict, and also statements as. t .
the salt VEINS, and Che lime.
stone and variegatedo marble .
deposits. Of. the latter he
says: 81 have had Z quarried
samples Of sr.beautif1l rock,
and sent t., be polished at a
number of marble i works in
Cincinnati and Eastern cities.
I have also, had some specimens
polished at the marble works
Of Messrs. =" Miles, Reeves &
Kerr, of Gallipolis.-All con-
cur in pronouncing the rock a
superior class of variegated
marble, very rare in its color,
shade and texture, of inestima.
Bile value for table tops, chin
ney pieces and all such work"
But ofoourse the paramount
object in the construction of
the Gallipolis, Macarthur and
Columbus railroad is to get at
the coal and iron in Vinton,
Gallia and Jackson counties,
and to form a junction with
the Chesapeake and Ohio road
at or near Gallipolis, on the
Ohio river. As has been as
certained by the Ohio Geclog-
ical Survey, and by the inves-
tioations of Mr. Griffith. there
are in the. district penetrated
by this road, iron ore, coal,
limestone and fire clay through.
out the coal measures of that
region, and. in Elk township,
Vinton county, the iron ore
vein is nine feet thick, and con.
siderably less than two acres
on the farm of William Gold
has yielded ten thousand eight
hundred and eighty tons Of pig
iron, notwithstanding the prim-
tive way in which the mining
was conducted The, block iron
ores, in veins from. six, to seven
feet thick, are as yet but par,
developed, owing to the
furnace men have
to them.ina sw gngo,T iAl
B OF coal there are esome six
teen veins, but at present only
nine are developed or their.
thickness known. From Gal
lipolis to Loganlthe road will
in reality intersect all the coal
veins cropping on the Apps
lachian coal field. Or, in 9th
er words, it will give US from
eighteen to i'twenty-three feet
of coal above waterSlevel, that
will yieldfrom 29,000itog 81!
600 tons, or more THAN cS0OS
600 bushels of coalito the acre.
These figures are based upon
four veins onlyAthe limestone
vein, the Simmons vein, the
Keystone vein and the Dawler
vein.m The other four veins
above waterl level are but poor.
ly developed as yet, and notha
ing definite as to- their thick@
ness is given Htood the rrel
port. The coal veins that are
formed below the water level,
on Raccoon creek, and that are
NJ present well developed, are