The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1878-04-09

isa most eligible natural mili site, anu an Old
mill has been ran for many years. ken and
wide bottom-lands lie around II and III
neighborhood; springs are frequent and the
timber fine; coal slIalcs are disclosed IN many
places; 1t 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-eight to thirty-two inches Coal has
been lied by smiths, and by them termed fine
| Ii Is easily quariied and in quantity. il Is
known us 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 Greek. 5
| u, 7. IL, X. 81. Is u coal bed, which has been
worked, its thickness we do not know. The
bottom and uplands here are fertile. Grapes
abound Oh the hilsdes as they do elsewhere
! in Crawford. The water Is abundant and
good; shales occur from this to Joseph Bry-
ant's on Lees Greek, at the foot OF Boston
Mountain, $. 90 I, Il. r. 81, with occasional
| outcrop of limestone. Great bluffs OF sand
stone rise up, and are full of iron, and yield
Il 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 Greek, rich
in coal banks. This ia 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
mi-bituminous Coal has also, tor years,
been quarried and transported from pits on
Cove Creek tributary of Lees Creek, in the
north 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 and table land,
the soil being enriched by the limestone and
he III ~ n inns purths tbprpin. II Is ppVpraI
with bottom growth Of timber, such as ash,
walnut pawpaw, oak, rich underground, vine
and shrub. It's peculiarly adapted for grape
tobacco, and pastures, the numerous springs
afording plenty of water. In early times
cane (reeds) grew on their tops; 1t produces
extraordinarily of all the grains, corn and
grasses
In the neighborhood of Shannon's Mill, s,
10, I. 10, r. 80. on Cedar Creek which empties
Into Frog Bayou. quartz fragments have been !
and lead also. The water is suffl- |
cient for the supply of mills, and the low
lands rich. Coal shales also display in this
tract of the country. There is 4 saline spring |
in 5. -, 7. IL, Il. 80, from which the brine |
many years ago, was worked, and the yield |
If salt good, Boring, without doubt, would |
bring stronger brine and make its boiling |
profitable to the salt manufacturer, even in |
his close proximity to the exhaustless saline
waters, springs and deposits of the east Chero-
see country. In sections 81 and "a are Heard |
md Pennywitt Sulphur Springs. from which
III, health giving waters, and which are IA
nous in their locality. The precipitates are
White, and were they improved by digging,
eansing them out and walled they would |
probably equal springs in Virginia and Ken
ucky. and become resort for spring visitors.
There are other sulphur and chalybea
prings In this county. On Frog Bayou or
lear Greek, near Fraziers gin. the land is
,ery fine, as Frog Bayou land all is.
most excellent. the range unequaled and the /
water wholesome - generally obtained for
rouse use by digging. or in eisterns. and
abundance of stock water everywhere There
S no better tract inviting the immigrant,
zone better for the occupation to be made by
he laborcrs on your road