The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1892-05-06
I,OalAgRES FINE COAL LAND

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ssesa the Description of the ProTie ana
Proucsition TO Form Company Tor me
pnrpose Of Operating the Mines.
DESCRIPTION.
This property is situated in Dickinson conn-
ty, Virginia, at the mouth of Mill creek, Where
Mil creek empties into Mcclure river ana
embraces boundary of One Thousand acres.
Mill creek forms its northern and Mcclure
river its western boundary. The entire prep pro p
erty lies in one body and embraces very
high mountain, which forms water -sheo pc
tween Mill creek and Mcclure river. ms
fact ia significant, as it enables the coal TO De
mined In the cheapest possible manner-cheap-
or than if in two bodies-and also contains
more coal acreage.
The Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago
railroad Is surveyed Immediately through the
property for distance of two miles. II .
confidently believed that this road will be COM
pleted through the property during the coming '
year. Over 81, 100000 have already been an
vested in the construction of this road. lts
exsention and completion to this coal field Is s
an absolute necessity to its existence ana sue
oessful operation. The additional expenditure .s
Of 300, 600 to $25o,oOO will complete 1T to TINS
property, and, as soon as this is done, there
is not the shadow Of doubt as to the RAPID
advance in value of this superior tract OF coal
Land.
TIE COAL.
The different veins of coal carried by 'nis
property are all above drainage, easy TO wotk
BY drift mining, easy of access and self-drain-
ing. with neither water nor floods to hinder or
retard the work of mining and shipping the
coal.
The property carries four different veins OF
coal--all above drainage-locally known by
che following names The Imboden, the Low
or Banner, Upper Banner and the Edwards. :
The Imboden is the bottom seam, or the
frst one above drainage. This seam is from
2 to feet thick, and is the great coking seam
of the southwestern coal field. The following
analysis of coke, oven test, of the coal from
shis vein, was made by Prof. Andrew S. Nc
Creath, OF Pennsylvania: Fixed Carbon, 94.o4;
Ash, 4.74; Sulphur, 0.5SS.
About GO feet above the Imboden, vertically,
is found the Lower Banner seam, from to {.
feet thick; also coking coal Of excellent
qnality.
Above these two is found the Uppar Banner
seam, FIVE feet thick, and next the Edwards
the top vein, four feet thich, which is super
Tor domestic coal.
TEST.
The Lower Banner seam has been opened up
and driven in from 80 to 60 feet, at three diff
fsrent places on the property showing regu-
lar and persistent seam Of coal of 6 to feet,
while a number of test openings have been
made on adjoining aud surrounding property,
thus proving thoroughly the regularity of the
different veins.
only mention the different workable seams
found above drainage, from the fact that In
this wonderful coal field no attention has ever
been given to the lower beds.
RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES.
own all the. Coal, Oil, Gases and Minerals
In, ON and under the property, with full mining
rights and privileges; the right of ingress and
egress; to build tramroads, railroads, wagon
roads, &C., required or found to be necessary
in mining Che coal or minerals, with sufficient
surface on which to construct necessary coal
bins, schutes, tipples, coke ovens, mining
houses and all the timber under Is inches in
diameter. In fact, everything ofvalue on the
property desirable for mining purposes.
This, without the shadow of doubt, is the
most desirable block of mining property that
is now offered for sale in the southern coal
field; and, for cheap and profitable mining, ia
vorable location and quality and quantity Of
coal is hardly equaled.
TITLE.
The title to the property is absolutely per-
feet, being derived from one of the Oldest
datents in southwest Virginin, granted in the
year 1888. There arc no "squatters'" or adj
sVcSsc CidihiS VI VIZ P1OPei w anu III loioeSo
deeds to be obtained.
LOCATION AS TO RAILROADS.
The property, as stated above, is located i'm
mediately on the line of the Charleston, Cincin-
matt and Chicago railroad. Several hundred
miles of this road is now in active operation in
South and North Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia, while the road bed is graded and
ready for Che ties and iron to st. Paul, Va,
whore il crosses the Norfolk and Western.
This point is about fifteen miles from the prop
erty in question. This road is projected from
Ashland, KY, to Charleston, S. c., and will
be one Of the great trunk lines over which the
coal from this section will be carried to the
seaboard at Charleston, S. O., and also distrib-
uted to the furnaces Of Tennessee and Ala
hama and deliveredto the seaboard at other
points through connection with the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia system at.
johnson City, Temp II viii also be.a promi-
nent factor in the distribution of the coal and
coke from, this field throughout the Northern