The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-11-23
Developments
In Kentucky.

not a great Instance away, De-
ing only across the Tug river /
from Pike county.
The exposed stratitications |
of the Elkhorn field" accord |
ing 20 the report of Frank !
Haas, are of the Carbonifer-
Gus age, and part of the Appa-
lachian coal area which ex-
tends from northern Pennsyl-
vania TO Alabama. The coal
seam has not as yet been
identified or correlated with
those of the northern fields of
West Virginia. Ohio and Penn
svlvania, or even those of
southwestern Virginia. it is a
reasonable opinion, however,
that they belong 90 the con
glomerate series, and would
therefore belong TO the same
group az the New River and
Pacahontas Goals, OF West Nir-
ginia. The qualifications I'm the
! field are free from faults. Their
general inclination Is 90 the
/ Northwest, but IL is go light
4 that the coal seam can. for all
practical purposes. be consider
ed level. The maximum thick
ness of the coal formation in
/ Elkhorn field Is approximately
fifteen thousand feet. In this
interval nine coal seams are
: recognized. The seams of the
lower half have not as yet been
found an commercial thickness.
The three middle seams. which
are locally known as Elkhorn
f. Numbers two. three and four.
are an more or less workable
T The E3khOrn No. three seam
is above water level throughout
the entire field. Crop lines ex
tend nearly 90 the heart of the
property. The coal on the
Consolidation property Is uni
form an character and of the
bituminous type. Commercial
ly 10 is primarily "a gas and
coking coal This places 10 in a
wide field of application, as a
by product coal, illuminating
gas. product gas. cement burn
ling, locomotive fuel aud genera
4 steam coal. The special fea
: lures of the analysis show tina
j. 10 carries high valatile matte
as any gas coal known, which
z would insure a high yield o
u gas. The Impurities m the Goa
e are exceptionally low Com
e. paratively the ash is about one
p half Of that I'm the standar
u coal, Connellsville; the sulphu
il is considerable lower and tn
phOsphorous is about one-thirl
e less than IN the Connellsvill
q coal"
= lt might be noted in passin
; that a number of years ago Co
81 IL r. Tierney made a report o
ie this coal field 10 the CrOz,
u interests and Drexels, of Phili
Is delphia. The report was rea
r. but the coal lands were III
N bought. The DreXels did, how
" ever, become interested
- large coal areas in the cOngl
merate series.
ie Isaac +. Mann, of Bramwe
al is largely interested IN the Goa
&C TO be found IN that region al
n, the Northern Coal and Coke 9
De and the Mason Coal Co. a
% only part of his interests in tn
an field. He and John g. Ma,
Do we're the owners of the Ian
us sold to the Consolidation Co
oy Company and +. j. Berwin
81 and they also have other lar
nu holdings.
or Dickinson county, W b c
IL Joins Letcher, although in V
re- ginia, is underlaid with Co
an Practically the entire county
owned by the Clinchfield C'
IN Corporation, in which Mr.. Ma
'ed is largely interested; Basc'
ing Slemp and his brother, w.
oig Slemp; the VENTS, of Pei
no sylvania; the Internetiol
Sy. Harvester Co. and other lal
.er interests are also interested
ise the lands Of that region, WI
'es, the United States Steel Corp
eiu alton has large boundal
'e-i nearby through the holdings
Tin, the United States Coal Il G.