The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-03-19

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made and resulted a. follows: d
Black walnut, 80 $780, 900 feet q
yellow poplar, so.ooo.oOo
Chestnut $4,000 600
Ash 2t.nno.0 GOO "
Hickory is.ei0.o00
Among the natural resources OF Ken
lucky which arc beginning 10 attract at
tention all over the country. by reason OF
their great extent and unusual value, the
supply exceptionally hnc, merchantahle
hard wood is among the most important.
After many years Of effort, capital and
productive energy have At least been
turned TO the immense mine OF wealth /
contained IN what L. popularity known -
the Eastern Ky. Coal Field. aud at pres
eut there are several Railroad companies |
striving TO penetrate the almost virgin |
territor, that stretches from the head Of
siack-wstcr navigation on Kentucky river
to tue limits Of the Cumberland noun
tains Ia is difficult to realize that from
Bcaiviilc, Lee county, Kentucky, 20 North
Carolina ON the Southeast and from Knox
willie. Tenn. ON the vest 60 Wyihevilie,
Va. on the east, there isa territory as
large a. an average state. which is tra-
,crsed only Day two lines OF Railroad, and
yet which possesses mors natural wealth
OF resources than perhaps any other sec
tiou OF similar extent ga the world. it
holds the largest deposits Of magnetic
I iron ore yet discovered Ia immediate proa-
/ imciy 60 the most extensive field Of fine
cooking coal known. 10 contains areas OF
caunai coal exceeding all others known,
and OF the finest Quality ever tested. ln
90, limits ct kentucky alone there are ten
thousand square miles Of coal fields, one
dnh of which contains cooking coal.
There $3.50 feet OF coal measured on the
North eide OF Pine mountain. and 22oo
feet between abe Pine and Cumberland
mountains. IN this beld, aud from sixteen
60 twenty workable seams Of the mineral.
There is nothing Ike this elsewhere,
and a vas this fact plainly shown TO him
about the wear less which led Judge
t"pig irou'9 Kelly, of Pennsylvania, To
predict that within few years we would
see an Influx Of population aud wealth In
Kentucky such ~ had never been euJo
ty any state Ia the Union save by Cali
fornia Ia The ten years that followed the
discovery OF gold.
The Great iron and coal-fcld, ia must
he remembered IL practically virgin for
ct Of thc best woods kno~n to commerce,
and somr Of them are the species nov
grown 80 rare az 60 he almost priceless.
The growing scantiness Of the timber
supply Of Michigan aud Wisconsin has
for some years past been having igs effects
upon long established industries Ia the
North and which are prosecuted without q
though; that = supply 80 cheap would ever
be exhausted.
Within the past fifteen or twenty wear.
Industries using wood has been established
D in Louisville aud other points in kentuck,
along the Ohio river that has achieved
success bv the superiority OF their mater.
ials alone. But IL 10 superiority headed
by supply which will require scores OF
? wears 60 exhaust IL must be readily seer
that ia the Immediate future there - 20 b,
a tremendous Increase and development
, in lumber aud wood working interests ia
Kentucky.
OF the superior quality cf this timber
Capt stephen y Jones, noted dealer ID
, timber said few years ago, Il can spesi
9Th confidence, having tested Il "a
comparison With the products OF hal
a dcren states North aud South Of kcn
tuckg for strengt6 and toughness ant
durability, the hardwood Of Kentucky anS
: the Northern ccuuties Of Tennessee sur
pass any iouad else~here." Already ID,
factories Of the West aad North ives
are UNNECESSARILY exhausted ia teei
sieirifics. ead are drawing = eonsidera
bio portioa Of their supplies from this sec
4 tion and many cfthen viii ultimately b.
q compelled 10 move nearer tae source o.
these spPpiies.
The reason Of The superiority Of thi
iisnber over the same eoanties north zn'
south IS probably owing TO the more IA
vorsbie divisions Of the crossing and &c
: acting industry season resulting from ia
/ climate FnrtN~- south the period OF IA
grcwth j. - rapid aud protraeted that 4
II does not suf eieniiy harden hence II - 10,
: poroas aud brittle. Ferther north it - 10.
Q snort and The wood too hard and iaelsstie
= hut the sections tributary 10 the Louis
slils meskei furnish small per cent y
: the timber of tbs state. Except a. elesre,
: fer farming aad thiuped out along a.
nasigahie streams aad railroads. aud d
|. the vicinity Of les iron furnaces 81,
timhef " the state u practically an
: foacted By the az. std has never Ace,
;. wasted ny forest ares. In ls-gz section
!. Of sosth~<ss Kentucky il found virgin
, forests % hane. <ds Of thousands Of scre
: hs4sl,s tiab>rrj With The fa<st ant
izrxs>s kesvthe u waite o<k. hickory. pep
bar. pine. ehesssst snd Other kind 81 sr<e'
ipd.xescus - tenperet< ssHf. All ore
tA> State. b1f r>9er>llr scattered ezc<p
/ ~ glaesa r>m<<1 h'>o 1<o1s Il <eoAeF1so<
teisos y fsee9 M ~ ehjoo ee>nes =