The Van Buren press., 1878-07-02

| is Il most eligible natural mill site, and an old
mill has been run for many years. Rich ana
| wide .bottomlands lie around il and It's
neghborhood; springs are frequent and the
timber fine; coal shales are disclosed in many
| places: it Is distant from Van Buren, eight
ecn 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 tIied by smiths, and by them termed ne
II is easily quarried and in quantity. 1t is
known as the Wooten bank. This coal. like
all the coal in this field, improves in quality
and thickness rs il is penetrated.
Near Robert Sutherland's on Lees Creek s.
y, T. II, K 81, il a coal bed, which has been
worked its thickness we do not know. The
bottom and uplands here are fertile. Grapes
abound on the hillsdes 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 OF Boston
Mountain. S. 30, I, r. X. 81, with occasional
outcrop of limestone. Great bluils OF 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. Ashort distance
from Bryants. from the Boston Mountain,
runs the Blaekburn'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 into which have been
sunk fourteen pits. This coal, like the great
body OF the coal so far used in this valley, is
semi btumnous. Coal has also, Tor years
been auarried and transported from pits on
Cove Greek, tributary of Lees Creek, in the
north west 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 its
very rich benches, hillslopes and table land
the soil being enriched BY the limestone and
there frugenious earths therein; ii is covered
with bottom growth of timber, such as ash,
walnut, pawpaw, oak, rich underground, vine
anG shrub ltis peculiarly adapted for grape
tobacco, and pastures, the numerous springs
af'ording plenty of water. In early times
cane treeds) grew on their tops; it produces
extraordinarily q All the grains, corn and
grasses.
In the neighborhood of Shannon's Mill s.
70, I 10, Il 80, on Cedar Creek which empties
into Frog Bayou. quartz fragments have been
discovered. and lead also. The water is suili-
eient for the supply of mills, and the low
lands rich. Coal .hales also display in this
tract of the country. There is a saline spring
in s. 81, I. Il, Il. 32, 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 eNhaustlcsS saline
waters. springs and deposits Of the east Chero-
kee country. In sections - ana 81 are Heard
aud Pennywtt Sulphur Springs from which
run health giving waters, and which are ta-
nous in their locality. The precipitates are
White, and were they improved by digging,
cleansing them ont and walled they would
probably equal springs in Virginia and Ken
tueky, and become a resort for spring visitors.
There are other sulphur and chalybeate
springs II 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 uncqualed and the
water wholesome - generally obtained for
house use by digging, or in cistcrns. 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