The Van Buren press., 1878-08-20

+ Is a most eligible natural mill site and an OLD
i mill has been run Tor many years. Ken anu
wide bottom-lands lie around it and its
4 peighbOrhood springs Are frequent and the
i timber nne; coal shales ARE disclosed in many
places. il il distant from Van Buren eight
cen miles northward.
ON Iee's Greek, still ndrthWard from Van
Borpn. i. fine coal bed, of the thickness Of
twenty-eluht TO thirt-t%o inches. Coal las
been trirdby smiths ard by them termed fine,
/ 1t Is easily quarred and in quantity. 1t is
known as the Wooten bank. This coal, like
all the coal in this field, improves in quality
and thickness as it is penetrated.
Near Robert Sutherland on Lees Creek, $,
~, II. II, X. 81 is coal bed, which has been
worked its thickness we do not know. The
bottom and uplluds here are fertile. Grapes
abound on the hllsides IL they do elsewhere
in Crawford. The water Is abundant and
GOOD ghalrs occur from this to Joseph Bry-
ants on Lees Greek, ut the foot Of Boston
Mountain, S, 20, +, II, K. 81. with occasional
outcrop of limestone. Great bluffs of sand
stone rise up, and are full of iron, and yield
a good building rock. The timber Is excel
lent white oak being among the prevalent
oaks and pine being absent. short distance
from Bryants. from the Boston Mountain,
runs the Blackburh's Fork of Lees Creek, rich
in coal banks. This is Il good, workable coal
exposed for thirty inches; has been used by
smiths for years and into which have been
sunk fourteen pits. This coal. like the great
body OF the coal SO far used IN this valley, is
semi -bituminous Coal has also, for years
been quarried and transported from pits on
Cove Creek, tributary of Lees Creek In the
north west corner Of Crawford; 1t has been
hauled by smiths forty miles, This coal Is
very good, its thickness Is about twenty seven
inches Boston Mountain Is famous for its
very rich benches, hillslopes aud table land
the soil being enriched by the limestone and
there frugeniouS earths therein; IL Is covered
with bottom growth OF timber, such as ash,
walnut, pawpaw, oak, rich undergrowth vine
an9 shrub. Its peculiarly adapted for grape,
tobacco. and pastures, the numerous springs
atlording plenty of water. In early times
cane (reods) grew on their tops; it produces
extraordinarily of all the grains, corn and
grasses.
In the neighborheod Of shannon's Mill, s.
10, Il 10, Il 30, on Cedar Creek which emptics
into Frog Bayou. quartz fragments have been
discovered, and lead also. The water is suili-
cicnt for the supply of mills, and the low
lands rich. Coal shales also display in this
tract of the country. There Is d saline spring
in 5. -, L. II, X, 81, from which the brine
many years ago, was worked, and the yield
of salt good, Boring, without doubt, would
bring stronger brine and make its boiling
profitable to the salt manufacturer. even in
this close proximity to the eXhaustless saline
waters, springs and deposits of the east Chero-
kee country. in sections b and 81 arc Heard
and Pennywtt sulphur Springs, from which
run health giving waters, and which are fa-
nous in their locality. The precipitates are
white, and were they improved by digging,
cleansing them out and walled they would
probably equal springs in Virginia and Ken
tncky, and become Il resort for spring visitors.
There are other sulphur and chaly beate
springs in this county. On Frog Bayou or
Clear Creek, near frazier's gin, the land is
very fine, as Frog Bayou land all is.
The land is exceedingly fertile, the timber
most excellent. the range unequaled and the
water wholesome - generally obtained for
house use by digging, or in cisterns. and
abundance Of stock water everywhere There
is 10 better tract inviting the immigrant,
none better for the occupation to be made by
the laborers on your road,"