Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-29
Mineral Wealth Of Virginia.

Ii is generally understood that Gen. Pleas
ants and party were recently visiting this State
in the interest Of the Reading railroad with
the double view Of increasing the consumption
of their anthracite coal by establishing iron
works here, and also of taking return cargoes
of iron ores back TO the furnaces and foundries
of PENNSYLVANIA. We learn that arrangements
have been made by the w. G., '. NJ. 4 .. S.
Il. r. for the shipment of ores from here to
Philadelphia and other points by rail at the
rate of J. cts per lou (2240 lbs per mile,
which would probably be materially reduced
should this traffic assume large proportions.
The freight by water from Lyncbburg to Phil
adelphia is something less than BY rail- being
ouly about $3.50 per ton, while the latter
would be about S4.5O.
The ore from some of the largest and richest
of these mines can DO delivered on the rail-cars
or canal boats at cost of from 81 50 to So 50
per ton for mining and transportation 1t will
thus be seen that they can be put down in
Philadelphia at cost of from So to 81 per ton.
These ores will yield over 81 per ct. OF metal
in the furnace While most of the mineral
properties referred to above are almost wholly
undcvelopcd, some of them have been suth-
GENTLY opened to show that the quality Of the
ore is good, and that the deposits are extcn
sive.
We cannot here refer particularly to any
one mine, but We wish to describe two localities
which are we'll worth the attention of iron men.
The first of these is 10 Campbell county,
along the line of the Lynchburg and Dauvlle
extension of the w. c. V. NJ. Il G. S. Rail
road, and about 10 miles from Lynchburg. The
topography of this section is marked by sue
ccssion of long, high ridges and narrow valleys
running parallel with the railroad, with conVen-
lent outlets formed by small streams flowing
into Flat Greek, along which the railroad
passes 1t is in these ridges that the largest
deposits OF orc are found, at distances varying
from one to three miles from the railroad. At
several points on these ridges bitches have
been cut across, exposing to view well defined
and solid veins or lodges, from 10 to 20 feet
and more in width. Excellent limestone sand
stone, soap-stone, fre-clay, and an abundance of
timber are also found in this locality.
The second locality referred to is on the
JamesRiyer canal, about ten miles below Lynch,
burg. The face Of the country is here broken
by succession of bold mountain ridges, run-
ming parallel with the river These ridges are
at intervals cut across by streams flowing into
the river, which thus make this favorable
place for mining.
About half mile from the canal, on the side
of the mountain, some digging has been done,
which has uncovered aud exposed to view
vein not less than 20 feet broad, and which can
be distinctly traced for more than mile along
the ridge. The out crop at or near the base of
the mountain, where the vein is cut by small
stream, shows this to be a very extensive
mine. There arc several other veins on this
xrh, ,h hnn lly,
plored one of which is about forty feet
broad and near two miles long. Indeed, this
whole mountain seems to be mass of iron ore,
broken into parallel veins from 10 to 10 feet 10
breadth, and from one to two or more miles in
length. These ores are principally red spccu-
lar, similar to the Iron Mountaln,) brown
hematite, and magnetic.
Abundant supplies of limestone, timber and
other material can be had alongside these ores.
ANGRY WOMAN Under the beading STRAY
ed or Stolen" Mrs. s. Susan Hundley, of
Shefeys Farm, Wythc county, Va, advertises
her husband, Andrew jackson Hundley, in the
Richmond Enquirer. She says he left her
about two mouths ago. in company with one
Manda Wyrick, who, she believes, "conjured
or bewlldered' him by giving him cup of
coffee to drink, upon the top of which she saw
a blue gloss swimming" They were accom-
panied by her son BOZ, who left a wife and
three children" The deserted matron says:
II want \. J. arrested and handcuffed, if ne
ccssary, aud brought back to me dead or alive,
as he owes good many debts that he must
pay, and he owes me a support in my old age.
ex-senator YATES, of Illinois, who lost
his place 10 the Senate on account of his un-
fortunate love for the bottle, made a speech on
the Fourth Of July in which be frankly con-
fcsscd his shortcomings and faults but he
took occasion to contrast himself with the self
complacent Christian Credit Mobiier states
men, who looked down upon him with con-
tempt. Owning to delirum tremens, be denied
any participation 10 plumber schemes and ex-
posed the hypocrisy and dishonesty of those
senators and representatives who were accus-
toned to turn up their noses at him-Rich.
Wing.
James Green, fisherman of Baltimore,
while hauling the seine in Chester river, across
the Chesapeake bay, yesterday, was seized by
a shark and all the flesh stripped from bis
right leg. He was brought to Baltimore and