The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-02-13
And this of the limestone which he will use
as hux in his furnace operations:

And this of the limestone which he will use
as hux in his furnace operations:
Silica s.45
Alnmina 49,. .,......-:.,................ $50
PHOSPHORUS .................-.........tr trace
IRON ................... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l30
Lime 1914
Mr.. Bird says he has also found an excellent
fire clay, which lie is using daily in his con-
structon work, and is so much pleased With it
that he has already ordered the machinery for
making fire brick. This bed being 100 feet
thick, insures an ample supply for all purposes
at Big Stone Gap, and the cheap and ample
construction of coke ovens in our coal fields.
The furnace is now working about eighty
men i'll construction, i'll the quarrics and III the
woods, getting out timber for the trcstlc incline.
One hundred and cighty.fvc carloads Of
material have been received, and the remaining
fifty will soon come in, and it is supposed that
one furnace will go into blast by July Ist and
the othcrby Christmas.
Mr.. d. S. Pleasant is preparing for the Ex-
position Hall cut Of black walnut one foot
high and five feet in diameter. which he has to
haul orer the mountains three miles OH sled
to the railroad, whence it is shipped to Big
Stone Gap. He is also getting out Il section
of beautiful curly walnut.
One OF our citizens received communication
Saturday from a gentleman Interested in some
iron and steel works in Wales inquiring about
our coal and coke and the market for the same
with view of coming over in the spring and
either buying or leasing coal lands. He was
sent in reply letter, Il copy of the PosT, Of
January I'd, and one Of Proctcrs pamphlets,
which will give anyone Il fair idea Of this
section and its resources. The fruits of last
years work arc gradually becoming APP
parent.
The Louisville & Nashville railroad last
Saturday reached bridge over the
North Fork of powell's river, one mile this side
of Pennington's Cap aud eighteen miles from
Big Stone Gap.
The Appalachian Steel & Iron Company is
putting up large store on its grounds near
the water tank on the South Atlantic l. Ohio
road.
The store recently erected near the postoiiice
by Mr.. IIilsman, of Lynchburg, cost sl,lSo,
and has been rented for three years at $500
per year. This is good pointer for investors.
The interior fittings, which are very handsome,
were done by Baker Brothers of this city.
The representative Of one Of the largest
into the advantages of Big Stone Gap for the
location Of the works which its owners propose
to move to the South shortly. They have been
using principally hcmock bark, of which they
will find all abundance here, and afterwards
will try the chestnut oak.
The South Atlantic Il Ohio railroad people are
getting their sidctracks clear Of the accumu-
laion of freight and are improving the
surface. Some additional locomotives have
been ordered and will soon be ready, when the
management proposes to restore the double
daily passenger trains and put on at least one
local freight train each way; and by giving it
eight hours in which to run the seventy miles,
will afford excellent accommodations to all
patrons of the road, even at the smallest
stations. The officials will also be glad to aid
us in gettnga double daily mail service.
r
General Ayers has secured in the East
100000 additional cash for the Valley Street
Railroad, and will shortly extend the line both
up and down The valley, perhaps crossing
PowclPs river to connection at the Louisville
It Nashville station.
This week was the anniversary of the great
sale, February 10, II and 70, last year in Plat
3, when Mr.. Henry G. Mcdowell, .Jr., auctioncd
off 306 lots for $3ll $40. Certain schedule
prices were put upon the lots, and bids above
that figure were limited, with the foregoing
results.
Average schedule price, SOL; average auction
price, 81 ,0lS, al increase of 50 per cent.
There were left 1876 lots, reserved and incom-
plctc, and the island, some twenty acres in
extent.
This land, sixty-two acres, had sold three
years before for $97 per acrc-S6,ol4.
Those were three almost perfect winter days
and golden sunshine and golden dollars were
poured out lavshy.
Judge l.. W. Baker, Of T.ctchcr county, writes
that the county has voted to build IL wagon
road to the top Of Black mountain il Big Stone
Gap will build this end. Mr.. ". H. Nickcls
who is anxious for this road. not only to i'm
prove his trade here but to afford easy access
to his large tracts Of Kentucky lands, should
come forward aud construct this end Of the
line. lie would derive more benefit from il
than anyone else; and, being perhaps our veal
thiest citizen, he has an excellent opportunity
to make some return for the enhancement OF
his property which has resulted from the Outlay
of others. The road might be called the Nick.
el's way after the old Romans who named the
highways in honor ofthose who built thcm---.,
Il Mr.. j. X. Taggart will begin the erection o.
his house on Poplar Hill in about ten days; ant
as he had Il great deal Of his wood work gottcr
out this winter he will show us one Of the most
rapid pieces of construction that has ever beer
done here. Messrs ". a. Mcdowell, +. NJ
Hardin and ". j. Horsey will soon bcgir
theirs. ,.,.,--.-.--areD--~se