Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-11
GREENE COUNTY COAL.
Experts Ridicule the Story of
the Fault.

sands of Dollars Spent In Testing the
Persisteney OF the Vein What Pref.
Stevenson Says-Wayne Iron Conn
pauy Gets the Phillips Tract.
Uniontown News Standard.
In the $275, 900 sale of the Phillips
coal tract of about 1000 acres near
Millsboro, in the 9Th pool, mentioned
in the News Standard some weeks
ago, the purchasers are said 10 be the
Wayne Iron Company, and they will
operate one of the largest mines in
the valley. Near this is the large
Litzenburg tract now owned by j. V.
Thompson, l. W. Semans and others.
The coal ia that section is SAID TO be
between eight and twelve feet thick.
Speaking OF the alleged fault in the
Greene county field, which is near the
above tract, II. H. Dilworth, Pitts
burg coal man, is quoted as saying:
cit is nothing new to learn that the
fault existed in the Riyerville mine.
This fact could be seen readily from
outside observations and was nothing
new to the purchasers Of the property.
The mine boss who had been employed
there long before it had changed hands
was familiar with the fact, but this
is pot an unusual discovery. If the
Monongahela Coal Company is not sat
isfied with their purchase there are
men who are interested In the coal
lands of Greene county who will give
them $50, 600 over and above what
they paid for it, and l will find them
a purchaser for the tract that they
now own.
"Every man who has made any pur-
! chases in the county has not done SO
without thorough investigation, and
we put down two holes from which
was taken a core of coal at least eight
feet in length. / know that John II.
Jones, one of the most experienced
coal men IN the Pittsburg district,
has speut over 500, 1000 in drilling in
the county and there is no instance in
which those drilling for him did not
strike coal from to II feet. The
story was given out only TO injure the
coal men in the Pittsbulg district,
and the stock showed this when it fell
several points shortly after.
1.-THE most reliable biologists Of the
country have said that the Greene
county coal is the finest In the dis
trct, and whatever may have been
the intention of those circulating the
story, | cannot help but believe that
it will injure this purpose more than
benefit it,
Prof. Linton, of Washington and
jefferson college, during his recent adj
dress before the Carnegie institute,
branded the story as fake" and
when questioned regarding the report,
said:
sThe published reports about the
Pittsburg coal vein having disappear
ed in some parts Of Greene county is a
fake. That a fault might have oc-
Cured and in all probability did occur
he did not take exception to, as these
things occur in all seams of coal, but
they are merely local interference,
or displacement of the coal, by clay
veins or rock, and the coal surrounds
them. He said that Prof. John j.
Stevenson of the New York university
and geologist of the very best repute
had gone all over the coal field in
question in Greene county, in cOnnec-
ton with the state geological survey
and the professor reported the Pitts
burg vein of coal giving it's elevation
above tide in the locality in question.
The gas drillers came after Prof.
Stevenson, and by actual test located
! the Pittsburg coal In every case at
about the same elevation above tide
as did Prof Stevenson, thus verifying
the professors report. He said there
was no more persistent vein Of coal
on record than the Pittsburg vein and
none better defined, and that there
was no question whatever Of its not
! being in evidence throughout the dis
trict where it has been reported as
having disappeared in Greene coun-
! ty."
w. p. D'Armitt, in discussing the
Greene county coal fault says, II de-
sire to make it understood that | have
no coal in Greene county, but | am
certain that whatever fault may have
been found in the Riyeryille mine is
not Of general occurrence throughout
Greene county. 1t is one of the best
coal fields in the country and no bet
ter coal Is found in the Pittsburg dis
trict than in Greene county. The
geological surveys are sufficient to
testify to this fact. There is at least
5 feet of coal in the Greene county
tract and the publication of the al
| legged fault should be discouraged. |
have been in the coal business nearly
all my life and faults are liable to
crop out in any field, but when they
are used to the detriment Of Others
the public should be put in possession
of the true facts"