Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
Clinch Valley News.
VIRGINIA COKE FOR THE
SOUTH.

to the great advantage to be derived
to it's section from southern rail
road connection through tho Clinch
Valley by way Of Big Stone and
Cumberland Gaps. Tho iron fur.
naces of the central South arc sur
rounded by coal fields, bet it is not
the class of fine coking coal found in
tho Flat Top region and i'll tho coun-
tios of Tazewell, Russcll, Buchanan.
Dickinson and Wise This is par
ticularly manifested by tho fact that
the Chattanooga Citico furnace, for
instance; one OF the most prosperous
i'll the South, gets its supply of coke
from Pocahontas, in This county, and
that too, when the product must be
hauled i'll an opposite direction to
Rndford before starting towards
Chattanooga. The superior quality
of tho coke, however, mikes up the
difference in cost over that of the
Southern article.
Gcn. Imboden has an article on
the subject in the Tralcsman, and
30 full Of interest is it that wo repro.
ducC ii here. His scheme for chcap
transportation is great one, and
to those acquainted with the geo
grnphy and topography of the coun-
try, most plausible. Tho building of
the Clinch Valley Division of the
Norfolk aud Western, tho South At.
lnntic and Ohio, tho extension of the
Louisville and Nashville, tho Knox
VILE and Cumberland Gap railroads,
brings the practicability of the
scheme moie Immediately to public
attention. Let tho article of Gen.
Imbodcn have Intelligent attention
Tor future reference
ABrSGpoN, Va, Juno 10.
10 TIC L|litor II Tie Tiu,lcm,on
Feeling IL deep interest in tue early
and utmost development of our mag
nilicent ccking conl field here in
Southwestern Virginia, and knowing
1T to be the nearest source of supply
OF better coke than the Councils
vile, to the great orc districts of
Tennessee. Georgia and Alabama. |
trust you will permit me, through
your columns, to make respectfully,
suggestion to the coke consumers
III the Stntos named. of plan of CO.
operation, on their part, that would
probably cheaper their high grade
fuel ono half; and outside of their
self supply would be a big invest
ment to compete in the West and
Northwest with tho Conncllsvilo
people, so much of whose product
now goes i'll that direction.
Aly idea is this: Get the furnace
men OF Tennessee, Georgia and Ala
Dana to form a great coking com.
pany amongst themselves, they tax.
ing all the stock, in proportion to
Their capital in furnaces, to buy here
III Southwestern Virginia, 10000 or
10000 acres Of our best coliins Goals
RS hear as possible to the waters
that flow into Powell and Clinch riy.
ers, In several parcels, SO MS to have
several coking towns ut the coal
mines, with Il continuous down grade
railroad following the streams to
hlngston, Tenn, the head of rood
steamboat navigation Oh the Tennes
see river. The headquarters of this
co operative or rather combined cox
ing company would naturally be at
Chattanooga, just as the principal
coking companies of Connellsville
are now at Pittsburg, SO miles below
their coal field, the Connellsville ba.
SIN
LII conjunction with this combined
coal and coking company, there should
be organized, under separate char.
ter, railway company to build a
single track road, SO located as to be
easily and cheaply made double
track, at least from the junction of
Powell and Clinch rivers in Camp
bell county, Tenn, to Kingston, in
hoane county, at the head of good