The Van Buren press., 1878-06-04

! Is 4 most eligible natural mill site and an old
mill has been run for many years Rich and
wide ,bottom-lands lie around ii and its
noighborhaad; springs are frequent and the
timber fine; coal shales are disclosed in many
places; 1t Is distant from Van Buren, eight
cen miles northWard.
ON Lees Creek, still northward from Van
Bnren, is u fine coal bed. Of the thickness of
twenty eight 70 thirty-twO inches. Coal has
been tried by smiths, and by them termed fine
It l. easily quaffied and in quantity. 1t is
known as the Wooten bank. This coal, like
all che coal in this field, improves In quality
and thickness as il IS penetrated.
Near Robert Sntherland's on Lees Greek, S.
H. y, II, X, b 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 hillsides as they do elsewhere
In Crawford. The water Is abundant and
good shalos occur from this to Joseph Bry-
ants Oh Lees Greek, at the foot OF Boston
Mountain, $. 20, 1, II, K. 81, with occasional
outcrop Of limestone. Great bluffs 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. A short distance
from Bryant's, from the Boston Mountain.
runs the Backburn's Fork of Lees Creek. rich
in coal banks This Is good workable coal,
exposed for thirty inches; has been used by
Smiths lIl J tdIet anu INV WHICH HIVE Dttll
sunk fourteen pits. This coal. like the great
body of the coal SO far used in this valley, is
semi-biturHnous. Coal has also, Tor years,
been quarried 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 it, thickness isabout 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 lrugenious earths therein; it is covered
with bottom growth of timber, such is ash,
walnut, paWpaW, oak. rich underground. vine
aud shrub. Its peculiarly adapted for grape
tobacco, and pastures. the numerous springs
plenty of water. In early times
cane treeds) grew on their tops; it produces
extraordinarily Of all the grains corn and
grasses.
In the neighborheod Of Shannon's Mill S.
10, Il. TO- Il 30. on Cedar Creek which empties
into Frog Bayou quartz fragments have been
discovered, and lead also. The water is sutli-
cient for the supply of mills, and the low
lands rich. Coal shalcs also display in this
tract Of the country. There is saline spring
in $. 30, L. H. K. 81, 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 Ghero-
kee country. In sections 32 ana 81 are Heard
and Pennywitt sulphur Springs, from which
ruiz health giving waters and which are ia
nous IN their locality. The precipitates are
white, and were they improved by digging,
them ont and walled they would
probably equal springs in Virginia and Ken
lucky, and become a resort for spring visitors.
There are other sulphur and chalybeate
springs in this county. On Frog Bayou or
Clear Creek, near Frazcr'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 laboreis on your road"