Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-05-31
OUR OPPORTUNITY.
STOKES, IRoNANb oHATHAMs COAL.
The Twin City to become the Future Birmingham of
the Socih, If the proper energy be exerfed. 3
{ (Dun6ury Reporter and Post.)

(Dan6ury Repo,fer and Post.)
The following paragraph is. taken
from letter written by a lawyer to
the Raleigh Farmer and Mechanic, cop
led into the Winston Republican Of a
recent date:
eff there is iron in Stokes and Surry, it
will be eventually manufactured here with
coal brought from Chatham. The compile
ton of the Yadkin Valley Railroad with a
branch from this point to Walnut Cove will
make Winston a manufacturing town, pro-
vided always the iron is in Stokes and Surry."
The Reporter aud Post will leave it
for others to say as to the iron in Sur
ry, but from actual observation will
give some of the ''evidences" ofiron in
the immediate neighborhood of Dan
bury. At the Rodgers mine,, three
miles north of this place, one wien,
which has been worked probably more
than a hundred years, presents pros
pect that would induce any one to be-
lieve that iron not only had but does
exist. Sixty feet below the surface of
the edge, or Gas miners term it) the
strike of the vien may be seen along
an underground passage for more than
one hundred and fifty feet, varying in
thickness from two feet at the thinnest
part to eight feet at the thickest end
Of solid, black iron ore, which has been
shown by analysis to contain from go
to 80 percent of solid iron. At the
Frost or Pepper mine, one mile east of
the above, which was worked great
number of years, the vein is ten feet
thick. Within less than half a mile OF
the latter mine, in digging grave
short time since, the vein was cut into
several feet. One mile northeast from
the Pepper mine is the Cherry Tree
bank. The ore is very fine here. Halt
mile east of the Rodgers Bank, the
vein was found to be near the surface
! about three feet thick. One mile west
of the Rodgers mine, vein isseen two
and half feet thick near the surface
One mile west of the last named place
the vein is from two to three feet. AT
these places the ore is all rich and black.
and with the exception Of the Rodgers
and Pepper mines, the diggings are
only about from ten to twenty feet
deep. One mile west of the last nam
ed place, we find ore of rather differ
ent nature, known here as soapstone
ore, but possessing the same qualities
as the black ore, all ofwhich is strong
ly magnetic and remarkably free from
phosphorus, but the black ore being
harder must in some cases be blasted
while the soapstone ore can be taker
out with pick. There are some fif
teen or twenty veins of this ore, OF
rather Gas is supposed) the vein has
been cut at fifteen or twenty places II
an area of about one and a quarter
miles square, and varies in thicknes
from one to ten feet. All the ore re
quired to run the forges where it wa
used has been taken from near the sur
face, usually form open drifts not NOR
than from FIVE to fifteen or twenty fee
deep. All the above named mines Ii
just along the north side of Dan river
in belt one mile wide by about fiv
long, while north of this belt there ar
quite number of old mines ofequall.
as much Importance as those mention
ed, and outcroppings are seen at prot
ably one hundred places. So, if ther
is nothing in the way of Winston be
coming an iron manufacturing tow
but the want of ore in Stokes, the da
is not very distant when she may be
come more noted for her iron indus
tries than she is now for her tobacc
foctories. While Winston may nc
possess quite so central position q
Greensboro, between the tobacco trad
of Virginia and Western North Care
lima on the one side, and the cotto
trade of Eastern North Carolina an
the Southern States on the other; or {
the coal of Chatham and iron in Stoke
and Surry, we always imagined ths
there was more in the man than the Il
cation, and what Winston lack
: in natural advantages she ma
: make up in energy and enterpris
The twin towns of Winston and Salen
with their large amount of wealth, el
terprise and energy, and Greensbor,
with it's superior natural advantage
are the coming towns in North Care
lima. Both have good, ably conduc
$ ed local papers, that are not slow |
act in the interest of their respectiy
sections, which adds very much to tt
prosperity Of the places; and Will
the papers are doing much to build u
the towns, the citizens on their pal
have not failed to appreciate their e
forts, as is shown by the liberal sui
port given them. Winston has cap
tai, and Greensboro has capital bot
have part in the tobacco trade, b.
the town that adds iron manufactori,
toitsaother advantages, is the comm
city in North Carolina. 50
. Frons Dr G. G. Clark. Oswego II.
20 = have made sufficient experimen
. of CoZde,l's LIQUID Beef Tonic to enable me-