The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-01-31

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ferrous period.
The line which separates the car
boniferous from the persnian per-
Iiods runs rather irregularly in 6
northeasterly and southWesterly di-
rection, and Is not far from forty
five miles west of Emporia, cross
ling the Cottonwood river at or near
the town of Florence.
i As the strata of the permian per-
iod Immediately overlie the carbon
ferrous, and as the rocks make one
continuous series 1t is difficult to
determine the exact line of division.
attributed to the permian period.
| 1t will appear evident that great
part OF the State of Kansas is COW
cred by the coal measures, and over
at least one third of the State the
tcarbOniferous rocks are upon the
surface. As the rocks Of carboni-
ferrous period contains the coal, it is
to them that we must look for our
supply. According to the best data
this carboniferous formation occu-
pies 20 900 square miles of surface
in the State of Kansas. The coal
measures haYe undergone but little
change. and therefore lie nearly in
their natural position. From what
can learn from the reports of Prof.
Nudge and others, as well as by
tracing the outcrops of several
strata across Lyon county, the dip
is not far from N so deg. or IS W.,
assuming that the dip is at right
angles to the trend of the outcrop.
The coal measures contain great
number of veins, some of which
are of no great thickness. 1t is not
often that the extreme upper por-
ton of the coal measures contain
veins of much thickness, nor coal of
first quality.
In the lower part of the coal
measures of our State are two
seams of coal, which combine
uniformity in quality and thickness
over all the higher and more recent
veins. The first is being worked TO
q considerable extent in the vicinity
of Fort Scott. on the eastern border
of the State, aud in various places
in 9 southwesterly direction into
the Indian Territory.
1t has also been worked in Mis-
souri, at various places, as far north
as Lexington, on the Missouri river.
1t is good article of bituminous
coal, and is rather of a better.quality
than the higher veins.
The other, and the one that Prof.
Nudge pronounces in all respects
the most important coal bed in the
State crops out in the center of
Cherokee county and runs in a
sOuthWesterly direction across the
State into the Indian Territory. 1t
measures from five and q half to
seven feet in thickness, and averages
about six feet. This is the bed
named by Prof. Swallow the Boone
Vile bed, and by Prof. Nudge the
Cherokee vein. and extends in q
northeasterly direction across and to
the north part of the Missouri, and
Is wrought at Bonneville, near Hud-
son, on the Charlton, and at Carbon
on the II. & st. Joe railroad and
other places In the State, and at
each of these places is about six
feet In thickness. These two veins
are the best in quality and maintain
their uniformity the best of any in
the whole formation.
These two veins, with all the
strata of the carboniferous period
dip at q uniform angle of about three
feet to the mile to the west of north
west, are to be traced in the
Cottonwood valley to the mouth of
Dodge creek, in Marion county,
: where they disappear under the
more recent permian, The natural
inference then is that these coal
seams underlie the whole eastern
part of the State. Every geological
: indication shows that over at least
one half of the State they are near
er the surface than many of the coal
: beds of England, from which that
country is supplied with fuel.
The time is perhaps not far dis
tant when the State will be supplied
with coal from these two great beds
8 The shallow Usage seam will per-
, haps soon be abandoned and the
thick Bonneville or Cherokee bed
worked. These two veins lie with
I in about q hundred feet of each
other in o vertical direction ani
= when one is reached it will be but ,
I slight task to penetrate the other
T Many persons offer what they CON
slider grave objections to deep min
Q ing, but experience has demonstrate
r ed that the objections are more ap
s parent than real. / have not tn,
! data at hand from which to calcu
u late the depth at which the Chero'
:. kee vein lies, but an approximate
l estimate has lIeen made and th'
= depth placed at from $50 to 20
II feet.
Few are aware of the lmmens
= value of q vein of coal six feet i
= thickness. A square mile will con
q tain about 100000 tons of Goa
" Every quarter section in the easter
u part of the State underlaid by thi
;, vein contains over 100000 ton
~ One ton of coal lie estimated to I
worth one and one half cords Z
= wood, hence an acre of this COT
~ is worth Il, 062 cords of wood.
: the whole of Lyon county, So
= square miles, was covered by q fol
., rest yielding 100 cords of wood
lii the acre, q little over nine acres =,
q this six feet vein of coal would sui
az ply an amount of fuel equal to Il
Us whole. It is estimated from relii
-'' BILE statistics that the cons1mptio
'A' of fuel, exclusive OF that used /
engines and manufactures is equ
" to one ton per annum to each pc
us son. On this basis Emporia wou
ed require about 1900 tons per annul
ess What q future awaits Emporia
In this great vein of black diamond
cal Eivaiing, may, surprising in val
nat the brightest gem of the Indi'
Is should be opened and laid at o
'us doors. With cheap fuel in abu
rec dance would spring up manufi