The Van Buren press., 1879-01-21

Is a most eligible natural mill-site, ana an ON
mill has been run fer many years Rieh ana nv
| wide bottem-lands lie around 1t ana us
neighborhood; springs are frequent anu ehe
/ timber fine: coal shales are disclosed IN many
| places; il Is distant from Van Buren, eight
cen miles northward,
On Lees Greek, still fofthWard from an
Buren. is a fine coal bed. of the thickness OF
/ twenty-eight to thirty-tWe inches. Coal has
been tiled by smiths, and BY them termed fne'
! It Is easily qaarried and in quantity, it IS
| known as the Wooten bank. This coal. like
all the coal in this field, improves i'll quality
aud thickness as it Is penetrated.
| Near Robert Sutherand.s on Lees Creek. ,.
Il, T. Il, r. B. Is n coal bed. Which has been
work ed; its thickness we do not know. Inc
bottom and uplands here are fertile. dfapes
abound Oh the hillsides as they do elsewhere
, In Crawford. The water is abundant and
good shales occur from this to Joseph Bry-
ants on Lees Greek, at the foot OF Boston
Mountain. 5. 20, T. T. K. 81, with occasional
outerop of limestone. Great blufis 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. short distance
from Bryant's. from the Boston Mountain,
runs the Blaekburn's Fork of Lees Creek, rich
In coal banks. This Is a good, workable coal,
eN posed 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 -bituminons. Coal las also. tor years,
been enarried and transported from pits on
Cove Creek. a tributary of Lees Creek, in the
northwest 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 fragenioHs earths therein; it is covered
with bottom growth OF timber, saeh as ash,
walnut, pawpaw, oak, rich underground. vine
ane shrub. Its peculiarly adapted for grape.
tobacco, and pasture-a the numerous springs
atiording plenty of Eatef. In early times
cane treeds) grew on their tops; 1t produces
extraordinarily of all the grains, corn and
grasses.
In the neighhorheod of Shannon's Mill. S.
H. 7 10, L 80, on Cedar Greek which empties
into Frog Bayou quartz fragments have been
discovered and lead also. The water is suiii-
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 S. -, T. IL, K. 32, 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 eNhaustless saline
waters. springs and deposits of the east Ghero-
kee country. In sections - and 81 are Heard
and Pennywitt sulphur Springs, from which
run health giving waters. and which are fa-
nous in their locality. The preeipitates are
white, and were they improved by digging,
cleansing them out and walled they would
probably equal springs in Virginia and Ken
tueky, and become a resort for spring visitors.
There are other sulphur and chaly beate
springs in this county. On Frog Bayou or
Clear Creek, near Frazier's gin, the land is
very fine. rs 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 cistef1ls, and
abundance of stock water everywhere There
is no better tracts inviting the immigrant,
none better for the occupation to be made by
the laborers on your road