The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-05-12
THE TITLE Is UNDERSTANDABLE,

having been definitely settled by the Circuit Court
Of Kanawha.
This tract is seven miles in length and varies in
width from u Of miles TO two miles. 1t has an
available frontage of some six miles the waters
of Smithers Creek and its right hand fork from the
kanawha and of h miles the waters of Twenty
mile Creek from the Gauley. Every portion of this
land can be easily reached by the valleys of
the water courses which penetrate 1t. Fourtfths of
this estate has natural level free outlet TO the Ka
nawha down Smithers Creek, which enters that rfy
or in the pool made by the Paint Greek dam, recent
1y constructed by the u S. Government This outlet
Is opposite to and about one mile distant from Can
Melton Station the Chesapeake Ohio
Railway, the other side of Kanawha and adjacent
to the village OF Cannelton, the coal mines OF which
have access to the railroad by ferry and railway
track.
This property contains immense deposits OF
CAMEL COAL
of the most superior quality. From the adjacent
mines in the formations and part of the origin
al tract large quantities of this coal being
shipped for gas-making purposes 1t Is regarded as
of the very best quality and commands the highest
price In the markets of New York and other trade
centres.
OF the splint coal of this region, NJ F. Maury says
in the West Va. Reports of 1916. sit is abundant,
and In admiXture with more or less bituminouS
coal, is found in thick 10 IL feet. For
the combined purposes of stea1n domestic use, and
the manufacture of iron, it may be looked upon
the most useful and valuable coal of the State
it ranks high that in the New York retail
market, it quotes higher than any other W Va coal
except camel Its value is due to its hrmness and
soidty which enables it be handled, shifted and
stored with very little loss 1t burns we'll leaving
but little ash has both high caorific power and In
tensity is usually remarkably free from sulphur
and other impurities; has little tendency to
clinker; is free from the danger of firing from spon
taneous combustion-a great desideratum in storage
and ocean transportation lis first rate steam
and household fire. and 1t has particular adaptable
~ In It's raw state to the manufacture OF Iron In the
blast furnace.
Quoting the above paragraph, Mai. Jed. Hocthkiss
who made geological report Of this property, in
1877, says: "The foot of coal above referred
to, at Coal Valley, is opened this estate the
mouth Of Blakes Branch just above the level of the
Creek Valley, so 1t be entered and worked with
out the Intervention of Incline This superior
seam or coal found fully feet thick at the point in
dictated, and being near the bottom of Smither's
Creek. 1t underlies the entire estate AN ALMOST
UNBROKEN STRATUM OF SUPERIOR GAS COAL,
while equally valuable for almost all other
Some idea of the quantity of coal here existing may
be had by calling attention TO the fact that each
foot of thickness in coal seam yields 1000 tons of
gettable coal to the acres, and this seam would
give 1900 tons per acre. or tons this es
tate. And this is but one of the dozen work
able seams of coal that have been proven above
water level in this portion of the coal fields VARYING
in thickness, including the slate partngs, from
three to eleven feet. have measured, upon the es-
tate below this on the same side of the river and less
than one mile distant, seam of coal IL IT, inches
thick about 400 feet above the river level This is
splint and bitumnous coal with thin slate parngs.
THE NOTED CHAMELEON CAMEL COAL
is mined from seam opened on the adjoining prop
perry This seam is seven feet thick, and is made
up of 3h feet of camel at the bottom, with 81 feet Of
splint at the top.
FACILITIES FOR MINING.
The moderate inclination of the stratihcation of
the beds would render the mines self draining and
self ventilating and the coal could be easily
daylight on down grade. The land is most favor
ably situated for mining purposes for all its beds
coal may be entered from the valley of Smither's
Creek and worked up their inclination consequently
this property is much more valuable than that
presents the outcrops of its where they decline
into the hills. This property is exceptionally val
liable in this that it has extended frontage on
Smithers Greek, and that all its Goals be most
conveniently mined into the moderately inclined
valley of that stream and through it conveyed to the
navigable Kanawha River and C. Il o. Railway.
TRANSPORTATION.
The Improvements of the Kanawha River by the
U. S. Government now nearly completed, afford
water communication with the markets of the world
direct from the property, and the c. x o. Railway
tiles for the transportation of the products of the
mines.
Part of the original survey of which this estate
portion owned by C. P. Huntington and Others and
held TO be of the most valuable pieces of proper
ty on the continent
TIMBER.
The land also has upon ii millions of feet of the
finest TIMBER such Oak, Walnut, Poplar, Birch
Beach, Tulip &C. Offers at a good price have been
made for the timber by the U. S. Government but
the owners have refused to have any of 1t taken
from the land.
Considering the richness of the coal deposits, the
value OF the TIMBER favorable location for mining
and facilities for marketing, this property stands
almost unequaled. The attention of capitalists is
specially invited to examination. Maps and
full geological reports made by Jed Hotchkiss Con
Sulttng Engineer, published in THE VIRGINIAS
for March, $780, and will be furnished together with
and other Information in regard thereto by the
dersigned upon application.
Address G. NJ HARRISON,
W. B. HARRISON
Attorneys in fact,
TT Staunton, Va.