The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-25
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C0AL|..F|lI|.E||,.L||D|:S';;.
.Much'Work Now Being Done
in Three States.
THE VEINS ARE ARE: VERY f: y, RICH nc +
All Grades Of Goal Except Anthracite
Il Are Found--RaiIroads In Southwest
viii Have All the Business
xxi They Can Handle.
THE VEINS ARE VERY :, + 7 |. RICH
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BALTIMORE, Sept N.-Mr George J.
Gould. who Is now on tour
over. his western system. wires the Manu-
facturers' Record as follows:
~ find the business outlook In terri
tory served by Missouri Pacific lines he
excellent. Wheat made a good crop on
those lines and corn Is out of danger OF
frost, as far as I can see. Corn will be
somewhat short Of last years crop.
Nevertheless It will be very close to
fair average croprin any event. Railroads
In the territory will have more busine
than they can handle, There Is already
shortage Of cars, and can see no let
5up In the commercial pros pcrity OF the
country. The large increase In the gross
earnings OF the Missouri Pacific Is f1S
best index can give you as to what Is
going on out here. 53
TO this the Manufacturer Record adds
that great crops will not be alone in
making strenuous demands upon rail-
roads in the South and Southwest. The
lumber Industry and the uncovering OF
mineral resources are also to play an
important part in that particular. But
h southern railroads are strainlns every
point, by improving trackage. BY addi-
lions to rolling stock and by extensions
TO -sIlcW' .llCIAS " ASS@| 11s.So 1900 80
calls upon them. t5
n AN ILLUSTRATION.
An illustration Of these activities is
given in correspondence from Mindless
borough, KY, describing the plans for
tho beginning of actual construction work
OF a railroad to extend from Middles-
borough to Harland, the county seat OF
Harland county, KY. which may posi-
bly, be extended across the Virginia bor-
der. This road, which will be fifty miles
long and OF good grade, permitting the
passage OF train Of fifty cars Will
penetrate the, rich coal fields along the
headwat ers of the Kentucky River on the
border OF tho States OF Kentucky and
West Virginia, and will open up an
opulent region which has remained par
TALLY undeveloped for many years, but
which contains every grade Of coal, with
the exception of anthracite. Another rail. 4
road which has been surveyed from
Beattyville to Pineville, distance OF
ninety miles, extends across Owsley, Clay.
Leslie and part of Bell counties
RICH VEINS.
The correspondent says;
"Leslie county Is about the center OF
Eastern Kentucky coal fields. There have
been found In this section ele,ven differ
ent veins of coal. all but two or three OF
which are workable. and eight above
drainage. In this section Is found tbs
same grade that Is now being marketed
in the older fields Of Virginia and West
Virginia The Pocahontas article Aes
about 300 feet below drainage. and what
Is known as Stonega IS situated l2o feet
above the Pocahontas deposit. Not only
is bitumnous coal found but there also
exist veins of camel coal In some places
Of cons iderable thickness. In ono place
vein thirty-eight inches In thickness has
been found, with forty inches of spl'nt
- fo6 hv a n n
of shale. Camel Is also found IN the
older fields Of Knox and Bell counties,
and Is now being marketed to some OK
tent.
Among the counties where actual de-
velopment is more active and where
there are more operators taking up lands
are Harlan. Letcher. Leslie. Clay. Knox,
Bell and Whitley Extensive mines have
been In operation in the counties OF Knox,
Bell and Whitley for a number Of Yeas,
but numerous new mines aro now being
opened up. In Leslie county there are
sixty surveyors at work. employed by
some of the most extensive operators Of
that section. s
81 AZ VAST TRACT.
"As has been announced the Great
Northern Coal and Coke Company has
secured vast tract amounting to nearly
100000 acres In the Big Sandy country.
and will proceed In the near future to Its
development, the construction Of rail-
road to give market for the coal out
put of that region being a probability Of
the near future. The Chesapeake and
Ohio contempates an extension up the
Big Sandy, and there Is now little doubt
but that this road will be established
1.-THE completion of all three OF these
railroad extensions will be problem Of
but short time and will add to the
country coal tleld second to mono In
the Union. The initial work on one has
already been begun, the promoters Of
the other two have given every evidence
of their sincerity. and within few
years the Kentucky coal fields will be
united with the fields Of West Virginia
and Virginia, and one great field extend
Ing over part OF three States will be de-
veloped." asU 5,5