The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-06-13
New Coal Discoveries.


square miles. embracing the counties Of
Jack, Young, Palo, Pinto, Eastland,
Brown, COmanche, Callahan, Coleman
and extending t. the territory Of Bexar.
The rocks contain the characteristics be-
longing to the coal measures of Missouri
and other Western States In general ap-
pearance this coal resembles that of Belle
vile, Illinois. The analysis gives Fixed
carbon, % per cent volatile matter. IS
per cent ; ashes, 3 per cent 1t cokes
with great flame, without changing its
form. The development Of this valuable
mlnearl is destined to be Of great import
ance To the State.
COAL IN COLORADO.
There Is now quite an extensive coal
mine being opened by the Golden Gate
Mineral and Land Company There are
two VEINS, making eleven feet of solid coal
III all depth Of shaft, l40 feet /; course Of
vein, north 4S west, then north quality
of coal, excellent free from sulphur. II
is used for locomotives, stoves, smelling
works and blacksmlthing, tore vein) !;
amount raised per day, seventy-five tons :
price Of coal at shaft, "a 30 per ton Three
more shafts are preparing to raise 200 tons
per day. The St. Nrain's Coal Mine is on
the Julesburg Railroad twenty-five miles
from Denver twelve feet horizontal vein
The shaft Is sixty-two feet deep. Coal
about the same quality as Canon City coal /;
company Incorporated in Denver capital
! stock 500, 900.
Northwest Of Princeton, on Bluestone
river, Is said to be one of the finest coal
fields in West Virginia. From the level
. IS ~
Mountain are twenty veins of coal vary
ing in thickness from one and half to
eleven feet. At the mouth of Laurel
Creek one Of these eleven feet veins has
oeen opened, and proves to Dc the soft RI
luminous, but above and below this point
the quality seems to be harder, and is sup
posed to be harder splint, and camel.
These fields are distant from the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad 22 miles, and
from the Atlantic, Mississippl and Ohio
Railroad via Pearisburg to New River
Bridge AZ miles -Erchdltge
The La Crosse Republican, prints the fol-
lowing concerning a new excitement in
Southern Minnesota:
A reliable gentleman lust from the coal
excitement nine miles east of Wells. Mimi,
was in the city to-day, and gives very en-
couragng reports Of the success In boring
for coal, which he saws is found in layers
from feet 10 inches 70 feet in thickness.
He says after a shaft had been put through
the slate rock, the workmen stopped to
discuss a peculiar smell that came up. Mr..
Rogers, who was sitting near the hole,
concluded to light hls pipe, and as soon as
he fired the match large blaze ten feet
high Immediately came from the hole,
burning the hair, whiskers, and face Of Mr..
Rogers, who with the other man, got out
Of the way as soon as possible He says
the flame finally settled down to about 3
feet in height, at which it burns day and
night, if not eAtinguished A second two
inch hole few rods from this has been put
down about the same distance, and it
burns like the first, both Of which are left
to burn during the night.
The Hon. JOHN HINcHcLIFF, Of Belle
vile, has written strong and manly lei
ter to the editor Of the Terre Haute
Journal on the coming question, in which
he says
Our government is, I believe, the only
government that has been 50 indiscreet-
to use no harsher as to dishonor its
own money, by refusing to accept it for
duties and imports. This special excep-
tion is made in the interest Of the bond
holder, who had stipulated with the gov
ernment that his interest should be paid
In gold. This seems to have been thought
necessary, to meet the grasping exactions
Of the money changers, Who refused to
furnish money to the government in its
hour Of necessity, unless the government
acceded to these terms But Why the gov
ernment should So far humiiate itself as
It did in this instance, ] cannot imagine,
and that, too, in the presence Of the fact,
that IT did not scruple to draft men into
its service, nor to take supplies by forage
men, whenever aud wherever they were
wanted in the time Of war Is it not lust
as competent for the governmeit to levy
ON the cash boxes of the rich money
changer, as to forage for and take supplies
from the farmer, or to draft men who are
too poor to purchase exemptions, for the
purpose Of war"