The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-06
On the &. West Vir-

LEwzBrRo, May 3, 1873.
Editor q he IntahEsnasE:
! visited Hawks Nest last week. Tn
der advices from New York they are At
last going aheadtO ship coal, and propose
to operate their camel and splint seam
6rst. This Is No. III Of my diagram Of
Nov. Is ult., and contains apparently
beginning Al the door feet splint coal,
feet camel coal, some 3 feet slaty part
ings and some 5 feet Of splinI coal with
" inch parting. The coal being hard
and the drift large, ior engine and double
track, they had not quite got to the pure
coal when was there, but the showing
was very satisfactory; there IS No.
/ sandstone roof. The camel opens
equally we'll on the other side Of The
main ridge Of Gauley Mountain. L
took occasion 10 survey this range from
the highest available point with . view
70 ascertain how much Of the camel there
ought TO 10 in the mountain. There
must be 5000 acres Of it, think, and
perhaps 5000; owned BY Q. Q. Tompkins,
Of Richmond, Gen. GilmouE, L. S. &, the
Gauley. KanaSha Co, r K. Cantley, OF
LeWisburg, J. Hotchkiss, Of StauntOn, and
perhaps Matthews & Morton, OF LeEis-
burg. Norris, Fsnt 4 Taylor own
good deal, bat 1t Is a kind Of y 4 y,
an unknown quantity. OF course, your
experienced readers will understand that
! cannot vOuch for it. presence on all
these tracts. Camel i like the hea, you
out your finger on it, yOU kROW, Gr.
Still it, presence in some quantity Is
known in various parts d the mountain.
The dip In the above opening Is about 10
ieet per mile to northwest.
The 100 teet Of incline Tor getting
from No, to No, Ill seam Is hall 6nish-
ed. They propose to put out about 81
ton. = day to begin with. The 200 tons
Of rail Tor the 81 mile track are probably
nov arrived IRON England, and the en-
CINE Is icing made By Porter, Bell & Co.,
Pittsburgh. The road bed is ballasted, and
the tics all delivered.
There can be no doubt thai Ormes 4
Co., Of Boston, Mas, who bought the
1000 acres, As reported in my last, are
going 70 work a once, for they are con.
tracing for us, 900 to $4,000 feet lum.
Der. Their operation will be in the heart
Of the coal field, and the presumption il
that they will make iron with the Splint
Coal-'CtiAaR se.' 80
l expect to report two more furnace
operations very soon, but | do NOT deal in
the 'gObemOucheEies Of the county, and
want to be sure about them. But
| hear Of one on Elk river, one on New
River, and one al Stanton. The two
latter, il born, will be children Of Quin.
nimont.
Mr.. Bemelmaus, c. +. Of Charleston,
agrees With what some OF us have long
been SuSpeGting, the existence Of a 6ne
district Of black band ore, on tie high
lands between the Gauley, Elk and Kama
VIA river. He announces 4-fooI seam
on the head Of Bell Creek, and says that
the quality il At least a. good a. that al
the Davis Creek black band. Unless this
black band lIpses into coal, there will be
several thOuiaHd acres OF it in 4 body
here, on the land OF Stockton, CanneltOn
& 20, Clark 4 Norris, Rufiner, Hill and
Holt Long ago ! saw = splendid speci.
men from the Clarke d Norris tract.
P.S. have just seen the report Of the
KahaWha County Clerks Office, which
state that the price paid by Mr.. Ormes
and his Supply Coal and Iron Company
was S?7 900, not $4,000, ~ Was stated.
II was source Of great wonder TO us
here how such 4 price a. $S0,OO0 could
have been obtained. Now it is explained
it was = KAhAEha statement.
Here the wheat is certainly not killel
most Of it looks q little sick, still, and
some parts Of the fields are nearly bare,
but that wa caused almost entirely by
the sDOWlesS cold and ice-cakinR in win.
ter. not by the late snap. The oats were
not injured. The fruit Is very badly
hurt, especially our apples. have seen
a few peach and pear blossoms since, but
no apple, plum or cherry blooms. can.
not speak about the kanaWha Valley;
the wheat there mSyshAve been killed, as
II was fOrWarder, but as low down As
Hawke Nest il was all right.
Have you observed letter on West
in the London Tina, March 10Th,
business page. Ii Is by 4 resident settler,
and il = thoughtful examination Of the
claims Of this section as 4 field iOr emf.
grafton.
The assessor Of Greenbrier is listing the
dogs-says they cost the people $4,000
year-and wants to know what anybody
has to say against a dog tar. So do the
farmers.
There have been a good many horse
buyers 10 LUiEburg-three parties at
once. Prices seldom ran over $50 a head.
A small place on the c. o. r. r. named
Anderson says il wants 10 be the capital
81 the State, because it ought to be; to |
prove which il goes into tWO.thirds Of a
column Of the most remarkable logic and
peculiar grammar (e. e. "Your cotem-
poraries' ideas Of Anderson is something
Is yet Insignificant" aT hope that
he removal will be done to the !
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