The Van Buren press., 1878-04-23

! is Il mosteiigibe natural mill site, ana an oid
mill has been run for many years. Ken ana
wide bottom-lands lie around 1t ana It's
/ eighbarhood, springs are frequent ana the
| timber fine; coal shales are disclosed IN many
| places; it Is distant from Van Buren eight
cen miles northward.
| On Lees Greek, still northward from Van
Buren,. is fine coal bed. of the thickness OF
| twenty weight to thirty two inches. Coal has
been lied by smiths. and by them termed tine
1t is easily quarried and in quantity. lt is
known rs the Wooten bank. This coal. like
all the coal in this field, improves in quality
and thickness as it is penetrated.
Near Robert Sutherland's on Lees Creek. ,.
l., T. II, K. p Is a coal bed, which has been
worked; its thickness we do not know. The
bottom and uplaids here are fertile. Grapes
abound on the hillsidcs as they do elsewhere
, in Crawford. The water Is abundant ana
good shaies occur from this to Joseph Bry-
ants on Lees Greek, at the foot OF Boston
Mountain, 5. 20, +, IL, Il. 81, with occasional
outerop of limestone. Great bluils or sand
stone rise up. and are full of iron, and yield
good building rock. The timber is excel
lent, white oak being among the prevalent
oaks and pine being absent short distance
from Bryant's. from the Boston Mountain,
runs the Blackburn'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 nave been
sunk fourteen pits. This coal, like the great
body of the coal so far used in this valley, Is
semi hituminous. Coal has also, for years,
been ouarred and transported from pits on
Cove Creek, II tributary of Lees Greek, in the
northwest corner of Crawford; it has been
hauled by smiths forty miles, This coal is
very good. its thickness is about twenty seven
inches Boston Mountain is famous for It's
very rich benches hllslopes and table land
the soil being enriched by the limestone and
there irugenious earths therein; ii is covered
with bottom growth of timber, such rs ash,
walnut pawpaw, oak, rich underground, vine
and shrub It's peculiarly adapted for grape.
tobacco, and pastures the numerous springs
atlording plenty of water. In early times
cane (reeds) grew on their tops; IL produces
extraordinarily of all the grains, corn and
grasses.
In the neiglborhood of Shannon's Mill. S. |
10, I. TO- II 30. on Cedar Creek which empties
into Frog Bayou. quartz fragments have been
discovered, and lead also. The water is sulli- |
Gent for the supply of mills, and the low
lands rich. Coal shaes also display in this !
tract of the country. There is a saline spring
in S. -, 7. IL, Il. 80, 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 - and "a are Heard
and Pennywitt sulphur Springs, from which
run health giving waters, and which are fa
nous in their locality. The precipitates are
white, and We're they improved by digging,
them out and walled they would
probably equal springs in Virginia and Ken
lucky and become a resort for spring visitors.
There are other sulphur and chaly beate
springs in this county. On Frog Bayou or
Clear Creek, near Fraziers 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 csterns, and
abundance of stock water everywhere There
is no better tract inviting the immigrant,
none better for the occupation to be made by
the laborers on your road"