Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-14
OLD KAINYUCK.
The Blue Grass State One Of the
Richest i'm the Union.
Development Of Its Vast Coal
Lands Just Commenced.

Great Change Recently Made In the East
Both Capital and People-An Indus.
trial Awakening and Building of Rail
roads Seem to Have Begun.
CINCINNATI, April IA special to
The Evening Post from Lexington, Ky,
says:
In the recent investigations it has been
brought out that Kentucky is one of the
most important coal mining states ia the
Union. The progress has been exceed
ingly slow in development Of coal lands,
but the hearty influx of both capital and
people into eastern Kentucky within the
last year has made wonderful changes in
this direction. The geological survey,
especially in the southeastern part of the
state, has been increased.
In addition to the Goals beneath the
conglomerate sardstones forming the
base of the coal measures proper, there
are above, north of Pine mountains,
over 800 feet of coal measures, which
contains great many beds of coal of
workable thickness. But even greater
results are in between Pine and Cumber
land mountains. Several of these differ
ent Goals are coking Goals far above the
average, which will bring Kentucky to
the front as O coal mining state.
Camel Coal.
The state geOlogist speaks in unmis-
taxable terms in regard to the valuable
camel coal lying in Kentucky soil He
says the facts On hand now prove that
the largest known area of rich camel
Goals is found in eastern Kentucky; the
largest known area of superior cooking
coal is found in the same section. Can
mel Goals are found in sixteen counties in
this section mentioned, but very little is
to be found in few of the less i'm
'portant counties.
1t will not be many years before coke
ovens will supply now waste fields of
rock and weeds. The finest of the cook
ing Goals is named the Elkhorn, it is
found largely in Pike county. From
thence il has been traced as thick bed
of over 800 square miles. 1t is above
drainage and enters Letcher and Harlan
counties also. Wolfe, Breathitt, Clay
and Knox contain an inferior workable
quantity of cooking cannal which in
time will be put upon the market.
No Railroads.
However this section of Kentucky
has no means. of transportation, which
is entirely a drawback. Surveys ARE
being made into these fields, and man
ufacturers in adjacent states will be
blessed with cheap and plentiful va
riety of cOking Goals.
Superior Coke.
Il :. l.,
Elkhorn coal Tests have just been com
pleted showing satisfactory results as to
increased value over cokes now used in
furnaces. The best Kentucky cokes
show this analysis. Fixed carbon, "a. q;
ash, g. 81; sulphur, .76j. The best Poca-
hontas, Va, coke shows this result;
Fixed carbon, S2.55; ash, IA; sulphur,
.597. Both West Virginia and Birming-
ham, Ala, cokes fall behind the Poca-
hontas variety.
The importance of the discovery oil
this coking coal, and its bearing upon
the future industrial development of the
| state, cannot be overe5timated The
nearest coking Goals to Cincinnati by fal
are found in Pike county. They are
| also, nearest to Louisville, st. Louis
Chicago and to large deposits of Besse
mer steel ores.
| Iron Ore.
| A limonite, or "brown ore" extends
| through the southwestern part of the
stale. 1t is found in the oriskany of the
upper silurian, and large deposits are dis
covered every month. An average OF
| SO per cent. of metallic iron is contained
in the brown ore. Along the northern
section of Pine mountain a great deal OF
this metallic iron ore is found. Ken
lucky and Pennsylvania enter into 8
very lively contest in the coking Goa
| contests.
The Bessemer steel ores of the Lake
Superior region are over 700 miles from
the nearest coking Goals. Now, assum'
ing that Cleveland and Youngstown, o.,
are the natural meeting points between
the Lake Superior ores and the Con
nellsville coke, the cost of the raw ma
terial coke, limestone and ore necessa
ry for the manufacture of ton OF Bes
semer pig will be at least So a ton more
at those points than will be the cost o
similar materials at favorable Localities
where the Kentu cky coke and the Nortl
Carolina magnetic ores may be brough
together, and the difference in the cos
of materials necessary to make non
Bessemer pig will be yet greater an'
more in favor of the same region.
An Industrial Awakening.
Kentucky has been spoken of as
backward state, but evidences at hant
make her one of the most important a
a mineral, as well as manufacturinl
state. An industrial awakening ant
building Of railroads has struck tn
state. Railway lines are being bull
through the great mountain gaps an
along the Wilderness road.