Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-09

b"'''u hS i'iIoWS.
You asked me II. in my opinion.
there WAS sufficient coal on your Mid
lothian property to furnish 500 tons
OF Goa a day Cor thirty years. i. q. -
5nc.ncu tons
MIR Mason then goes into AN elaborate
account of his Investigations. the geo
logical bearings. etc. to show upon
what rounds he based his opinion. and
then writes:
mo. can have no reasonable doubt but
tina, Your property safely contains -
100000 tons Of coal.
You own 800 acres. Of which about
100 acres have been mined out or are
barren. This leaves l.6o0 acres Of
uncNplored ground. The question
arises at once. does the coal undcrlic
all OF the above
The general answer TO this question
is. that. given an outcrop of coal coal
extends so far as geological horizon.
There is no doubt. in fact. !, has been
proven that the Grove shaft coal hori-
Hon extends for at least three miles
west I'm spite Of II few trap bikes.
there - no Indication that these Will
materially lessen the tonnage Of your
ground. Geological conditions. thcre-
fore. favor my estimate.
Taking all the data into conSidrra-
ton. ! 10 not see how. except by ar-
tually drilling Your ground. YOU can
NAV" stronger confirmation Of my cs-
innate.
''In conclusion. The conditions Of vour
request call for a.jUo.oOo tons .. coal
~ ".iii tons per acre under 600 acres
there are !J.l 500 long tons IF coal
The ".3"n.""e tons YOU call for is only
about i" per cent of the figured rsii-
mate. This gives safety margin OF
30 per cent. a far safer margin shan
usual"
Eut Professor Mason only refers tn
the middl" seam in which the new in
CINE WAS driven. and his calculation is
ma"e upon that alone Since there are
wv" other seams. necessarily. his iiG-
ures would he Increased
COLONEL O"rOoLE SHOWS
WHERE rUOl HE LIES
Colonel Edward O'Tnolc Sup.rin,.u-
"ch' OF the United States Coal Com
pthN OF Cary. w. Va has also made
An examination OF the Midlothian prop-
r'ues ana on December .. 1914 he
wrote the owners a letter in which he
NOT onlE corroboratcd the estimates of
Mr. Mason but spoke at length upon
INC pfohts TO arise from properly work
ing inc mines on by up to-datc
methods. gave estimates OF the cost.
etc Among other things he said:
know YOU are very much inter
eSteu IN The development OF the Rich
II. M n
surprised that there. arc no, por. ro,,
Pile in Richmond ami Eastern Nir,.i,,i,
that are AS much Interested in The
ucNc'opihent OF this coal basin as Won
are appreciate the difficulties that
y" al" laboring under in YOUR IN
"t"Noi 10 arouse interest in this field
operators with the. capital and cx-
h"ticnce necessary for the proper de-
N'I"pn"nt of that field have been i'm
''rcStcH III other directions and i'm
S"'uc instances II would be much 10
''S'", ahtaS" MAD tn" Richmond
go, ''H'" "t'" 'h"fo"&hIN developed.
~ S'"'"i - 'ru" OF tn" railroads II
'''' w very fhuch TO IN" diSadvHu-
W '"' heS" h"ah' ana ohia, Viz
:, :, .,i!'al' an" lhe M"rioik and Western
''''' '""S' rs wen us me coal opera
'n'h'' shoni" IN" lL"hm"nd
,' 49," 'u'''Sh ''""",""" or "'""",""n
IN ~ 'oai Year I" th- eastern
me W"n!" not encourage
"' "en"'oP,neht OF inc hoId' they may
nave discouraged IL
~ ST \s COOP AND
tHI:tpER THAN roo IiIu\T,s
Mr.. o'Toll, in conclusion .h,u, ,,,
from 500 to 1000 ton. Nor J., c,,,
lie taken from this min. q, COS, h...
low that OF m!niu., in INC n,n,;r,.j,.
ANA. OF course. cam hc .,IJ ,,,,.j,
cheaper to ,h. r:,nuf,,,,,ri,, ,,,t
I;shmcnts OF Richmond. EorfnIl. Fans
mouth N.vpurt News p,,.rsb,,rn ami
all Eastern Niruiui, than ,.,,, ,i,. w.S,
Virginia coal He SAYS. ..pr.n,r..d
sizes of pnrahouI,s ,uI \.v riv., c,,i
seldom =oes below s. po,. No, ION =,
the mines and i'm tin, winter s.asnn.
some of i, is sold as lirb as 80 "a ucr
net ton a, Tn. mines nr,sun,e "a,
average rricc - $50 Ia, I,ni,, ,rI
cce ANA Sl.75 for nut These prices
prevailing for rocahontas and New
river coal IN" h''hin"nd basin having
''"N "h''St 81 NOR" IMAM - Il Ton ~
the southern market, th"r" ~ no r"t-
son why YOU Sh"N!" hot sell your
prepared coal ~ an aNcTaS. Of $50
per net ton At the mines. besides the
coal from the Richmond basin should
produc" greater pcrccn'aS" OF larger
s!Z" coal than III. Pocahouias coal II
II is properly mined auh prepared. IS
IL * harder coal physically