The Van Buren press., 1879-10-25

| IL most eligible, natural mlll-slte andah
| mill has been run for many years hieii an
| wide bottom-lands lie around II ana IL
neighborhood; springs are.frequene ana the
timber fine; coal shales are disclosed ID many
plaees it Is distant from Van Buren eiSht-
| cen miles northward.
| On Lees Greek, still nortlward from van
Buren, is fine coal bed. of the thickness OF
twenty sight to thirty-two inches. Coal mas
been tried by smiths, and by them termed hhe'
1t is easily quarried and In quantity. IL Is
known as the Wooten bank. This coal, ike
all the coal in this field, improves III quanty
and thickness rs it is penetrated. /. .
| Near Robert Sutherland's on Lees Creek, D.
! Il T. II, r. 81 is coal bed, which has been
| worked; its thickness We do not know. Inc
bottom and uplaHds here are fertile. urapeS
abound on the hillsides as they do elsewhere
| In Crawford. The water is abundant ana
good; shales occur from this to Joseph Bry-
| ants on Lees Greek, at the foot OF Boston
Mountain, s. 20, T. Il X. 81, with occasional
| outcrop of limestone. Great bluns OF SAND
stone rise up, and are full of iron, and yleia
a 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 Blackburn's Fork Of Lees Creek, rich
| in coal banks. This is a good, workable coal,
exposed for thirty inches; has been used by
Smiths for years. and info which have been
sunk fourteen pits. This coal like the great
body of the coal so far used in this valley, Is
semi -bituminous Coal has also tor years,
been quarried and transported from pits on
Cove Creek, 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 benckes. hillslopes and table land,
the soil being enriched by the limestone and
there frugenioas earths therein; 1t is covered
with bottom growth of timber, such AS ash,
walnut, pawpats. oak, rich underground, vine
ane shrub 1t peculiarly adapted for grape,
tobacco. and pastures the numerous springs
ahording 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. 7. 10, r 80. on Cedar Creek which empties
into Frog Bayou. quartz fragments have been
discovered, and lead also The water is sutf-
cient for the supply Of mills, and the low
lands rich Coal shales also display in this
tract of the country. There is i saline spring
in S. 32. r. H. L. 30, from which the brine
many years ago, was worked, ana the ylelu
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 t3hero-
kee country. In sections 32 and "a 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,
cleansing them out and walled they would
probably equal springs in Virginia and Ken
lucky, and become resort for spring visitors.
There are other sulphur and chalybeate
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 eisterns. 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.'