The Van Buren press., 1878-06-18

is most eligible natural mill Site and an old
mill has been run for many years Rich and
wide .bottem-lands lie around it and lis
neighborhood, springs are frequent and the
| timber fine; coal shaes are disclosed in many
places; il Is distant from Van BHren eight
cen miles nurthward.
ON Lees Creek, still northward from Van
Buren, is a fine coal bed Of the thickness OF
twcnty-eight to thirty-two inches. Coal has
| been tried by smiths and by them termed fine.
| 1t is easily quarried aud In quantity. 1t is
known rs the Woeten bank. This coal, like
all the coal in this field, improves in quality
and thickness as ii is penetrated.
Near Robert Sutherand's on Lees Greek, $.
| II, 4. IL, X. y, is a coal bed, which has been
worked; its thickness we do not know. The
bottom and uplauds here are fertile. Grapes
abound on the hllsides as they do elsewhere
in Crawford. The water is abunIant and
good shales occur from this to Joss5h Bry-
ants ON Lees Greek at the foot Of Boston
Mountain, 5. 20, I, IL. X. 81, with occasional
outerop 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 Ashort distance
from Bryants. from the Boston Mountain,
runs the Blackburn's Fork Of Lees Greek, rich
in coal banks. This is good, workable coal
exposed for thirty inches; has been used by
Smiths for years. and nro which have been
SUNK fourteen pits. i HIS coal. llht lUt 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 Greek, in the
north 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 frugenieus earths therein; it is covered
with bottom growth of timber, such as ash,
walnut, pawpaw, oak rich underground, vine
and shrub. Its peculiarly adapted for grape.
tobacco. and pastures, the numerous springs
ailording plenty of water. In early times
cane (reeds) grew on their tops; it produces
extraordinarily of all the grains, corn and
grasses.
In the neghborhGod of Shannon's MILL S.
10, 7. 10, Il 80. on Cedar Creek Which empties
into Frog Bayou quartz fragments have been
discovered, and lead also, The water is sutli-
cicnt 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 $. 30, L. H. K. 81, from which the brine
many years ago, was worked, and the yield
of salt coed, 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 80 and "a are Heard
and Pennywitt sulphur Springs. from which
run health giving waters, and which are fa
nous in their locality. The preciptates are
white, and were they improved by digging,
cleansing 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 ehaly 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 no better tract inviting the immigrant,
none better for the occupation to be made by
the laborers on your road"