Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

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coal barges' tugs. The bodies
or boxes of tho coal or coke cars
should BIO of exactly the Same size
and shape, be mado of steel lattice
work and each to hold 80 tons OF
coke Tho barSes should be built of
steel or IRON and each one The proper
size to hold six of the car bodies in
pairs side by side, and three lengths
OF pairs. a tug would safely move
ten of these bargcs dashed three on
each side, and two in front and two
astcrn. Each barge would carry six
car bodies OF so tons each, or $50
tons to the barge; and ten burgcs to
The tug would make 500 tons M I,
tugs load, littlo over one half of :,
train load on the railway.
AT Kingston, suitable steam hoists
would lift the car bodies from their
trucks and deposit them in the bargcs.
AT Chattanooga, Decatur and Flor
ence, similar lIoists would lift them
out of the bargcs and sot them on
car trucks to take them to the fur.
naces along the river or into tho in
terror, where they would be unioaded
aud sent buck to Kingston. aud thence
to the mines and ovens This system
Of transportation would reduce its
cost TO two mills per ton per mile,
GIVING the railway and barge company
an ample profit. BESIDES, these re
turning ''einptics" could be utilized
to carry as far East as Virginia, the
pig iron, r;tiis, etc, seeking IL North
ern and Eastern makcl, For which the
Norfolk 81 Western road would fur.
nish ample transportation from the
coking towns.
Is this schemopractica5lo | thinl,
so. Tho splendid colin. coals, SUI
llcicnt for FAR more than n thousand
years consumption, undoubtedly OK
list IN Ice, Wise, Russell, Dickinson,
Iazcwell nnd buchanan counties, Va,
Ill tho most favorable condition for
the cheapostlPossibio mining, not cx-
cccdinS 80 or 40 cents IL ton. Sites
ior ovens aB numerous us at Con
nclisvlllc, Pa, can be had nj almost
nominal prices, on strcalns flowing
into Powell and Clincl rivers. Thou
sands upon thousands of acres uf tho
best COIL lands can yet be bought nj
from - to $40 au acre, if it is gone
about in tho right way. y continuous
descending grade ciul bo easily had
all the way from the ovens to Kings
ton, and there water transportation
Is available, us soon as tho "NIusscl
shoals improvements arc opened.
not only to supply all tho river works
i'll tbo three States named. but TO send
coke TO the West and Northwest.
cheaper than it is, or ever can be
done from Connellsville, and OF bet.
Ter quality.
The Southern iron companies who
would, by tho plan proposed, own
the col;ing and coal business, could
guarantee such mineral traffic 10
the proposed railroad, not over 20D
miles long. including all its branches.
as would insure the capital ut once
to build it. The joint owners of the
cokinS works could supply them
selves so cheaply with the best known
fuel in the world, that with their
present cheap and abundant ores.
would defy competition in chcapness
OF iron and steel production i'll all
America, and for all time.
L have analyses of our coke and
Goals from many localities IN our vast
coal basins, that L have heretofore
published, | can furnish you, if you
think your readers are not familiar
with them. This has been for some
time pet scheme OF mine, and some
OF the coal land owners in the several
counties have asked me to visit Chat
tanooSa, Birmingham, Decatur, Flor
encc, Admission and other iron cen.
tres, and bring it to public attention
there 1t has not been convenient
for mo to do so. Therefore [ outline
it Ill this letter to you, avoiding all
details; and will be glad to supply
these to any one at any time. And
after tho matter Is thought over by
your readers, somebody will call Il