The Van Buren press., 1878-11-12

| Is most eligible natural mill site, and an OLD
mill has been ran for many years Kieh ana
| wide ,bottom-lands lie around it and us
neighborhood; springs are frequent ana the
timber fine; coal shales are disclosed IN many
places; 1t is distant from Van Buren, eight
cen miles northward.
On Lees Greek, still Horthward from Van
Buren,, is fine coal bed. OF the thickness of
tWenty-eight to thirty-two inches. Coal has
been tried by smiths, and BY them termed fine,
1t is easily quarried and in quantity. II is
known as the Wooten bank This coal, like
all the coal in this field, improves in quality
and thickness rs 1t Is penetrated.
Near Robert Sutherlands on Lees Creek, >.
II. r. IL, r.. - ia coal bed, which has been
worked its thickness we do not know. The
bottom and uplands here are fertile. Grapes
abound on the hillsides as they do elsewhere
in Crawford. The water is abundant and
good shales occur from this to Joseph Bry-
ants on Lees Greek, at the foot.oi Boston
Mountain, s. 20, T, II. Il. 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. a short distance
from Byants. from the Boston Mountain,
runs the Blnckbnrn's Fork Of Lees Creek, rich
in coal banks, This is good, workable coal
exposed for thirty inches; has been used by
smiths for years and info 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. a tributary of Lees Creek. in the
northwest corner of Crawford; II 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 and table land,
the soil being enriched by the limestone and
there frugenious earths therein; it is covered
with bottom growth OF timber, such as ash.
-4alnue. ,~~a on NJ ioi, vino
ane shrub. Its peculiarly adapted for grape. |
tobacco, and pastures. the numerous springs |
plenty Of water In early times
cane treeds) grew on their tops: it produces |
extraordinarily of all the grains, corn and
grasses,
In the neighborhood of Shannon's Mill. S. |
10, 7 10, r 30, on Cedar Creek which emptieS |
into Frog Bay on. quartz fragments have been ,
discovered, and lead also. The water is suhi- |
lent for the supply of mills, and the low
ands rich, Coal shales also display in this |
raet of tie country. There Is 4 saline spring |
n :. -. T. II, X. 81, from which the brine |
many years ago, was worked. and the yield |
If salt good. Boring, without doubt. would |
bring stronger brine and make It's bofIing
profitable TO the salt manufacturer. even in |
his close proximity to the eXhaustless saline
springs and deposits of the east Chero-
see country. In sections b and 81 are Heard |
md Pennywtt sulphur Springs. from which |
'uh health giving waters, and which are iA-
nous in their locality. The preeipitates are
white, and were they improved by digging, |
cleansing them out and walled they would |
probably equal springs in Virginia and Ken
ueky, and become a resort for pring visitors.
Ihere are other sulphur ard chalybeate
springs In this county. On Frog Bayou or
lear Greek, near Fra2ier's gin, the land is |
Inn a. Erpo lat.I .lI l.