The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1878-03-26


Is most eligible natural mill site. and an ole
mill has been run for many years. Rhh ans
wide hettom-lands lie around 1t aud III
neighborhood springs are frequent and TIT
timber fine; coal sliales are disclosed In many
places; it is distant from Van Buren, eight
cen miles northward
On Lees Greek, still northward from Var
| B,;feH, l. fine ceai bed. of the thickness u
twenty-eight to thirtY-two inches. Coal has
been tiied by smiths, and by them termed tine
IL il easily quarried and in quantity. lt Is
known as the Wooten bank. This coal, like
all the coal Ia this field, improves In quality
and thickness as 1t Is penetrated.
Near Robert Sutherland on Lees Creek. 5,
II, T. H. T. b is coal bed, which has been
worked; its thickness we do not know. The
bottom and uplands here are fertile. Grapes
! abound on the hillsides MS they do elsewhere
t In Crawford. The water Is abundant and
good; sliales occur from this to Joseph Bry-
ants on Lees Greek, at the foot OF Boston
Mountain, S, 20 I, ~, Il. 81, with occasional
outefop Of limestone. Great bitlils OF sand
stone rise up. and are full of iron, and yield
good binding rock. The timber is excel
| lent, white oak being among the prevalent
oaks and pine being absent. short distance
from Brvant's. 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 -bitumiuous Coal has also. tor years,
been quarried and transported from pits on
Cove Creek. tributary of Lees Greek, In the
northwest corner OF Crawford; il 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 leiutr ApTi,ihr1 by the 1inps al
there trugenious earths therein; II is covered
with bottom growth OF timber. such as ash,
walnut, paw paw, oak. rich underground, vine
and shrub. 1t is peculiarly adapted for grape.
tobacco. and pastures, the numerous springs
aitording plenty OF water. In early times
cane {reeds) grew on their tops; IL produces
extraordinarily of all the grains, corn and
grasses.
In the neiglborheod of Shannen's Mill S.
10. L 10, Il 80. on Cedar Creek which empties
into Frog Bayou. quartz fragments have been
discovered. and lead also. The water is sutii-
Gent for the supply Of mills, and the low
lands rich. Coal .hales also display in this
tract OF tile country. There is a saline spring
In s. g, L. IL. X. 32 trom 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 Chero-
kee country. In sections 81 and "a are Heard
and Pennywitt sulphur Springs. from which
ruth health giving waters. and which are fa-
nous in their locality. The preeipitates are
white, and were they improved by digging,
cleansing them ont and walled they woulu
probably equal springs in Virginia and Ken
lucky, and become resort for spring visitors.
There are other sulphur and chaly beate
81 rings in this county. On Frog Bayou or
Clear Greek, near Frnzier's gin the land is
very fine. rs Freq 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 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