The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1878-06-11

| is most eligible natural mill site, ana an OLD
mill has been run for many years Kicli ana
| wide ,bottom-lands lie around 1t ana It's
neighborhood; springs are frequent ana the
timber fine; coal shales are disclosed IN many
| places; it is distant from Van Buren, eight
cen miles nnrthward,
On Lees Creek, still nofthward from Van
Buren, Il fine coal bed. of the thickness of
twenty-cght to thirty-two inches. Coal has
been tried by smiths. and by them termed line,
1t Is easily quarried and IN quantity, IT, Is
known rs the Wooten bank This coal, like
all the coal in this field, improves III quality
and thickness as it is penetrated.
Near Robert Sutherlands on Lees Creeks
L. T. II, K. 81, Is Il coal bed, which has been
worked; its thickness we do not know. The
bottom and uplands here are fertile. Grapes
abound on the hillsides rs they do elsewhere
in Crawford. The water is abundant and
good shales occur from this to Joseph Ety-
ants on Lees Greek, ut the foot OF Boston
Mountain, $. 20, I, r. K. 81, with occasional
outerop of limestone. Great buils OF sand
stone rise up. ana are full OF iron, ana yield
Il good building rock. The timber Is excel
lent white oak being among the prevalent
oaks and pine being absent. short distance
from Bryants from the Boston Mountain.
runs the Blaekburn'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 info winch nave been
SUNK fourteen DIS. i MS CtAl' lIht Lllt pltdt
body of the coal SO far used in this valley is
semi Unanimous, Coal has also, Tor years,
been quarried and transported from pits on
Cove Creek. Il tributary of Lees Greek, in the
north west corner Of Crawford; 1t has been
hauled by smiths forty miles This coal Is
very good. its thickness isahout 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 lrugenous 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, aud pastures. the numerous springs
atlording plenty of water. In early times
cane (reeds) grew on their tops; it produces
extraordinarily of all the grains, corn and
grasses.
In the neighborheod Of shannon's Mill, S.
10, I. 10, Il 80. on Cedar Creek which emptics
into Frog Bayou. quartz fragments have been
discovered, and leud also. The water is sutii
cient for the supply Of mills and the low
lands rich. Coal shales also display in this
tract of the country. There is a saline spring
in $. 81 Z. Il, X. 80, from which the brine
many years ago, was worked, and the yield
of suit good, Boring, without doubt would
| bring stronger brine and make its boiling
profitable to the salt manufacturers even in
| this close proximity to the eXhaustless saline
| waters, springs and deposits Of the east thero-
kee country. In sections 81 ana 81 are Heard
and Pennywitt sulphur Springs, from which
run health giving waters. and which are ia
NOUS in their locality. The precipitates are
white, and were they improved by digging,
| cleansing them out and walled they would
.,.shly equal springs in Virginia and Ken
tuekv. apt pe,e Hme resort for sprihg visitors
There are other suip.@uf ana ehaly peate
| springs In this county. On ra~p pay ou VI
| Clear Creek, near FraMer's gin, the laaa 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 TOR
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