The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-06


to the James river, and thence by
schooner to New York. Their contracts
for this season require them to cut at
their mill, on an average, 10000 feet OF
lumber per day. They deal mainly in
walnut, white oak, poplar and ash, draw
ing their supplies from Elk river, Coal
river, and the Ksnawha as far up as
the Falls. Indeed they have gone far
above, and logs cut in Raleigh county
haye been shipped from Qulnnimont, on
New river, west to st. Albans, by
rail, then sawed into lumber, and
shipped to an eastern market.
They give employment TO large num-
Der of hands at their mill, and to num-
bers of lumbernen along the mountain
streams. Besides this firm there are
numbers of others similarly engaged.
In Fsyette county particularly the tim
Der business is very active, and the daily
shipments of logs, especially walnut, are
immense. In stave timber, too, great
deal is being done. Agents of Eastern
firms are travelling all through the Ka-
nawhs country, contracting and paying
for pipe. slaves, hogshead slaves, and that
sort of material, carrying off great deal
of stuff and scattering a great deal of
money. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh are
going to Kanawha for their oil-bsrrel
slaves. Contracts for this stuff, aggre-
eating over $4,000, have been
made in Charleston during the
past two weeks. A single dealer
on Coal river contracted some two
months ago with Cincinnati firm for
the delivery of stsve timber amounting
to $4,000, and smaller transactions are
being made in every direction. From
these facts it is easy to be seen that the
Kanawha Valley is ccmlng to the front
as timber producing section, and that
large portion of the trade is looking
thlther for its supplies.
1t is to be regretted that the differ
ences between the coal operators and
their miners on the Kanawha have re-
Gently limited production somewhat, but
in spite of this there is steady and
gratifying increase in the Ksnswha coal
trade. Cannelton is now mining and
shipping five hundred tons of camel,
splint and bltuminous, all by rail, per
day, from the works of three companies
operating at that point. Two other
companies have recently made leases on
the PAXTON property adjacent to that
place, and when they are under way,
the aggregate yield at Cannelton is ex-
pected to reach thousand tons per day
In addition to these there are two thriv.
ing mines at Upper creek, two at Paint
creek, one at Blacksburg, two at Hamp.
ton, one at Coalburg, two at Coalmont,
two at Lewiston, one ~ Brownstown
and ore at Peytona-all snipplng by rail.
On the north side of the river there are
the Raymond City works at the mouth
of Poca, the Campbell Creek Company
and the Pioneer Company on CampbelI's
creek, two mines on the Tompkins pro-
perty at Cedar Grove, and tho Supply
works at Enterprise, all operating for
distant markets, to say nothing cf q
number of smaller mines producing for
local consumption.
Of the Goals that are produced the
most valuable, of course, is the camel,
the bulk of which is shipped to New
York, where. at the prevailing rates OF
SO and Sll, it yields net profit of from
81 to s4 per ton. 1t has been contended
that the supply of this valuable coal in
the Ksnawhs Valley WAS very limited,
but recent developments have exploded
all that. NORTON Il Co, of Maiden, have
discovered, opened and are now opera
ting a fine vein of camel at BrowDs.own;
II. P. ToMPKINs, Esq, has opened Il
splendid deposit of the same coal on his
| property near the mouth of kelley's
Creek, and Mr.. c. p. HUNTINGTON
President of the &. & o. K. r., has
opened on his 10000 acre tract on
Hughes Creek, probably the richest vein
of camel yet found in the State, fou,
feet in thickLess, and Of SURPRISING
purity. II is estimated that the
total shipments from Ksnswhs this yea,
by rail will reach S,CO0,0O0 bushels, anG
by river as much more 1t is not, there,
fore very surprising to note that many
coal dealers aud capitalists are visiting
that valley with view to investment
and operation. The quantity and quail
lty of the coal, the low price OF the lands
their accessibility to market, as guaran
teed especially by the improvement o
the Kanawha through government aid
must certainly have the effect to a.trsc
capital and stimulate the development o
these most important coal interests OF tn
State.