The Van Buren press., 1878-03-12

liso most eligible natural mill site and an old
mill has been ran for many years ficll ana
wide bottom-lands lie around 1t ana Us
Ineighborhood; springs aie frequent ana the
4 timber tlne coal shmles are disclosed III many
places; it Is distant from Van Buren eight
1 cen miles uorthwatd.
/ On Lees Creek still northward from Van
4 Buren,, il u fine coal bed OF tile thickness oil
/ twenty light to thiftY-two inches. Coal mas
been tried by smiths, and by them termed me,
/ It Is easily duufried aud in quantity. 1t Is
/ known as the Wooten bank, This coal like
/ all the coal in this field, improves iii quality
aud thickness ~ it Is penetrated.
/ Near Robert Sutherlands on Lee ; Greek, ..
! u I, Il, Il. y is Il coal bed, which has been
worked; its thickness we do not know. The
/ bottom and uplauds here are fertile. Grapes
! abound on the hilsidcs AS they do elsewhere
/ in CaN ford. The water Is abundant and
good shales occur from this to Joseph Bry-
4 ants on Lees Greek, ut the foot oil Boston
/ Mountain, :. 20 4, =. Il. 81, with occasional
/ outerop of limestone. Great biuila OF sand
stone rise up. and arc 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. y short distance
from Bryant's. from the Boston Mountain,
runs the Black burns Fork of Lees Creek, rich
in coal banks This IL Il good, workable coat
exposed for thirty inches; has been used by
smiths for years, and INFO which nave beeh
sunk fourteen pits. This coal, like the great
body Of the coal so far used in this valley, Is
semi hituminous. toai has also. tor years
been unarried and transported from pits on
Cove Creek, a 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 earlhs therein; il is covered
with bottom growth OF timber such rs ash,
walnut paWpaw. oak. rich underground, vine
anG shrub. It's peculiarly adapted for grape.
tobacco. and pastures, the numerous springs
ailording plenty OF water. In early times
cane (recdS) grew on their tops; it produces
extraordinarily Of all the grains, corn and
grasses.
In the neiglborhcod of Shannon's Mill, S.
49, I 10, II 30. on Cedar Greek 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 ,haes also display in this
tract of the country. There Is Il saline spring
in $. -, I. II. Il. %, from which the brine
many years ago, was worked, and the yield /
of salt good. Boring, without doubt. would
bring stronger brine and make It's boiling
profitable to the salt manufacturer, even in F
this close proximity to the eXhaustlcss saline +
waters springs and deposits Of the east thero- /
kee country. In sections - and 81 are Heard I
aud Pennywitt sulphur Springs from which |
run health giving waters, and which are IA I
nous in their locality. The prccipitates are I
white, and We're they improved by digging, |
cleansing them out and walled they would I
probably equal springs in Virginia and Ken /
lucky, and become resort forspring visitors. F
There are other sulphur and chalybeate
springs in this county. On Frog Bayou orr
Clear Creek, near Frazier's gin, the land Is
very fine as Frog Bayou land all Is,
The land is exceedingly fertile, she timber
most excellent. the range unequaied and the
water wholesome generally obtained for
house use by digging, or in cisteraS and
abundance Of stock water everywhere There
is no better tract inviting the Immigrant,
none better for the occupation to be m0de by
the laborers on your foau.f