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' -jrf^ .•Coal River Coal ainl. Mineral.Wo make the following, extraots from the able Report of the PhJsident of the ; “ Navigation Company-jof jCoal River. The slack water improvements on this river are to be rcpairet^under tbo new organization of this Company, and the way thusrO'Opcned to thfe immense fields of Coal lying on that rivjr. '^Somo of the . most valuable of these (Coal, lands are 1 for sale, and we seo no^aaon why the Kanawha and Coal rive^Coal trade may not be made to com|iete'successfully with tho Pittsburg trade:Coal river is a tributary of the Great Kanawha, and empties into it at Coals*I mouth, twelve railc9 below Charleston ' Innd forty-eight miles from tho OhioI r*vcr- ;.] At the “ Forks of Coal,’ which is ‘Ieighteen uiiles from Coalsmouth, Coal I river divides itself in Little Coal and .; Gig Coal rivers—Little Coal being twen-j ty miles long, and Rig Coal boing forty miles long from tho Forks of Coal.. | The Great Kanawha is formed by the ! confluence of New aod Gaulcy rivers,flowi i ■ for niucty flvo miles through the rich and I beautiful valley bearing its own name, j and empties into the Ohio river eighty-.'lour miles below Parkersburg, 184 miles I below Wheeling, and 28-1 miles below ! Pittsburg. It is navigable for steam-: boat* at all seasons of tho year to Browns-1 I town, which is ten miles above Charles-] ton. and seventy miles from its mouth j land, except during low stages of the | water, it is navigable for steamboats to iCaonelton, twenty-eight miles abuvo I Charleston.FORM Fill TRAMS.[■! In the winter of 185S-59,460,000 bush-j els of the Peytona Cannel coal were shipped to market by the Western Min-ling and Manufacturing Company, and :• ibo Virginia Cannol Coal Company.| lu the winter of 1859-0.0, 800,000 I bushels of the same coal were shipped to ,' market by the same companies, j And in the winter of IStiO-fil. large I quantities of tho same coal were likewise I shipped to Cincinnati and New Orleans,,| by die same companies, j During this period the navigation of ' Coal river was uninterrupted, tho locks jand dams furnishing four feet of water I in the shallowest plucos, oven in a low 'I stogo of the river, from Dam No. 1 (a I mile and a half from Coalsmouth) up to ’! Peytona. Small steamboats l'rotn die I Kanawha made several trips to Peytona I in towing flat-boats and barges used in | tile transportation of coal, j The various saw and grist mills on the river contributed to the trade of Coal I river, and many salt barrels were made and shipped to the Kanawha salines.CO.VI. RIVF.lt COAI. FIELDS.For quantity, quality and variety of splint, canncl and bituminous coal, the Coal river region has been most favorably known siticc the year 1848, that being tho year that tho attention of cap-; iulists in New York and elsewhere was 1' first drawn to the remarkably rich dopes-I its of Canncl coal on this river by Culo-iuel William M. Peyton, the pioneer 'Jspirit of the C'oal river enterprise.| From the Forks of Coal to Marsh and I Clear Forks of Rig Coal river, a distance i of forty miles, aro found canncl coal,' splint coal and bituminous coal, in great ! j abundance and of tho very best quality, j ‘ j So, likewise, are to bo found similar do-1 1 posits from tho Forks of Coal to Boone 1 jC.il., on Little Coal, a distance of ' i twenty miles. These veins are from two 1 feet and n half to twelvo feet in thick-: ness ; and as many as jiee distinct work-1 able veins arc found on tho same pro-r pcrty, lying horizontally, and above tho ' beds of the rivers. At Peytona, in ad-• dition to veins of splint and bituminous: coal, there are two distinct and workable j ' veins of,pure cannel coal, respectively ' two and a half feet and three and a half• feet thick ; and the former lying about• sixty feet above the latter.COAL COMPANIES ON COAL RIVER.I The Canncl Coal Company, of Coal ! river, was one of the first companies organized on Coal river. This company ' owns 1,500 acres on Little Coal river,| known as the “ Manniugville Tract, r 15,000 acres near Joe's crock, on Rig 51 Coal river. These lands belong to parties in New York.The Coal River and Kanawha Mining ■jaml Manufacturing Company did own ' j4,000 acres on Briar creek of Big Coal :: river. These lands now belong to A. i; Bininger, of Now York, who purchased I them in July last.The lands of the Western Mining and i Manufacturing Company are situated on , I Brody's creek, and adjoin Peytona.—' George \V. Day, P. S. Justice, D. C.Wharton, and others, of Philadelphia, Mown this land. The lands of tho Vir-’ ginia Cunucl Coal Company likewise ud-,!join Peytona, and] have recently been [purchased by William II. Aspinwall,, | Henry E. Pierrepont. of Now York, r j Henry A. Dubois, of New Ilavcn, and others.1 It was by and through these four coal companies, aided by the State of Virginia to the extoot of 896,000, that the Coal river Navigation Works were con* structed; and they; likewiao boilt railroads, miners’ houses, steam saw and , grist mills, o., on jtbeir several proper-• tics, which eau.'at a, moderate expense, be sgain put in a •Offing condition. •tuM of dislanoe. The Covington and Ohio railroad is to pass through the Kanawha Valley, aad this road is but an extension to the Ohio river of Virginia s Central railroad running from Richmondmonth route. . ... .Thus it is wen, the mest feasible sna: practicable toate between the oitien ofthe upper Mississippi Valley and the cities of the Atlsntio eea-eoaat, is along and through the Kouawha coal fields.— That the natural outlet for the trade and travel of the Great West seeking the sea-board, is through the valley of the Great Kanawha to the Chesapeake Bay.. That the James River, Kanawha River. Ohio River and Missouri River are on and about the same line of latitude, and that a canal, connecting the James and Kanawha Rivers, will constitute a oon-. tinuous water-lino route for 2,500 miles aad upwards, extending from Kansas down the Missouri River, down the Mississippi River, up the Ohio River, up tho Kanawha River, np New River, op Greonbrtefi from thence by canal to Jackson's River, down Jackson’s River, and down the James River to Norfolk. Furthermore, when Virginia’s centrst lines of improvement are completed (as //icy must be) the trade from tho Missouri River, from the Upper Mississippi, from the Ohio River, and from tho great Lakes, must seek the sca-coast via the James River and Kanawha Canal. Norfolk will then be united by an unbroken water-lino with Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis—head centres of trade of the Great West—and the Kanawha coil fields situated on this national central wator-line, will be the grant coal centro from which coal will bo shipped to tho Eastern as woll as to the Western and South-western markets. In fsct, the completion of Virginia’s central lines of improvement (railroad and water-line) will give a werld-wido market to the canncl coal, splint coal, bituminous coal, salt, iron, coal oil, par- . afino, petroleum, fire clay and ether valuable products of the Great Kenawba region. It will make the Kanawha Valley and the country contiguous thereto a vast mining' and manufacturing district, and will place both East and West Virginia on tha road to wealth and prosperity.The conclusion, therefore, reached by the comparison between the Kenawha and Pittsburg coal fields is, tlisti in the very location of the Kanawha Coabbatin. in its proximity both to the eastern and western mur/cels, and in the quality, variety and abundance of coal, the coal fields of tho Kanawha, Elk and Coal Rivara possess great natural advantages over tho coal deposits near Pittsburg, and at present great advantages in the very low prices of the lands.And theso advantages possessod in common by Coal, Elk and Kaoawba Rivers, capitalists are boginning to appreciate, as shown by coal compsaios so-tivoly preparing to mine and ship eosl on ■ an oxtonsive scale aod tbs enlarged operations going on at tho cannel coal factorioi. Ths day, thcreforo, cannot be distant when coal lands in this region, now selling nt very low prices, will briog from S100 to $200 per aers, and the 40,-000,000 bushels cf cost now annually shippoil down the Ohio, by tko mouth of Kanawha River, will bo roiaed and shipped from tho soal banka of Coal Rivor, Elk Ilivcr and Kanawha River.All of which is rcspeetfully submitted. Til OS. L. BROUN, President N. C. C. R.Facts Worth Remkmberino.—It is worth wbilo for all farmer*, everywhere, to remember that thorough culturo is better than three mortgages on their farm.That an oflfonsive war against weeds is five times less cxponsivo than a defensive ono.That good fonces always pay better than lawsuits with neighbors.Thst hay is a great deal chcapor mado in the summer than purchased in tho winter.That moro slock perish from fumino than founder.That.scrimping the feed of fattening hogs is a waste of groin.That over fed fowls w^n't lay sggs.A farmer in Chesterfield county, Virginia, recently brought a suit against a Frenchman for soiling him a doaf mule ; ho had gced, wboaed and haweduntil ho was hoarso, but the mulo would neither geo, whoa nor haw, consequently ^ ho was a deaf mulo. “ Parbleu, zo mewcl is not deaf; zo mewel no understand ze English you talk to him. The case holds over to noxt term.A German described an sooidont thus:“ Vonce a long vilo ago, I vent iotu mine obble orchard to glime s bear traa to get beaches to make mine vrow a blom-buddiog mit; and vcn I kits on do dopermoat pranob, I *all from, do lower- . most Jim, mit yen log on bote rides of dor venco, andliko to shtovo mice out-sids in. wm 9 - 1 -Potter county, 0., has not*'tavern or drinking houso. Consequence the ,. February term of Court\was a fsilur*. only ono indictment on the .criminal record, an empty jsil and a prosperous people. '-'.VAo Irishman who wssonoe qn a jour-, noy, said to nover likod to see tables full of books aad newspapers where bo stopped at night. “For,” aaid ba,;“:C can never find any whisky at such . plaoes.“ Tho rioh, said tho Jew, eat veni-too because it is deer; I eat mutton hi-cause it is shoop.] .Tho parties at. present interested in tho development of Coal river.:ltnds aro making preparations for futuro operations on an extensive scale. Haying determined to restore navigation without delay, and in the best manner, they arc. at tho same time, getting organized and ready for -mining and shipping cannel coal to market and for erecting oil works on their properties, feeling oonfident that the Navigation Works will bo repaired witbin eight.months, and that next winter they will be shipping to Cincinuati and Louisville. Peytona Cannel Coal, which brings, in Cincinnati, thirty-threo and a third por cent, more per busbcl than any other coal sont down tho Ohio river.PITTSBURG AND UPPER OHIO COAL TRADE.This trade has become one of vast magnitude. Tbe Quarterly Trade Circular,” published at Pittsburg in Sept., 3S65, reports 'the following important facts. Tbe quantity of coal, mined per annum, ut the Pittsburg coal fields and shipped down the Ohio river, from the year 1845 to the year 1865—a period of twenty years—isTis follows :I mo. 1SIC.1847.1848. ISItl. I Mu. 1801. ISO-.'. ;1801.BUS. EXPORT.2, U00,310 5,208,4:10 0,518,097 0,490,007 0,.'129,907 7.820,042 7,045,200 9,908,921 10,800,082 10,000,491TEA US.1805.1850.1857.1808.1809.1800.1801.1802.1808.1801.DCS. EXPORT.10,800,1595,174,48514,141,06421,871,00928,040,49082,580,88210,U04,97414,032,70021,089.31229,541,307to Charlottesville, Stounton, and Covington in Alleghany county, and yrhen comploted it will constitute the shortest railroad route, by 124 miles, from Cincinnati .to the Atlantic ses-bonrd, as shown by a comparison of the following routes:PROW CtXCISXATt TO NEW YORK RT RAILROAD.By the Baltimoro route, via Parkersburg, 7G4 miles.By the Baltimore route, via Wheeling, 818 By tho Pennsylvania Central Railroad, - 802 “By (he Lake Shore, S. Y. anil ErieRailroad, BIO “paox CINCINNATI TO XORTOLK, AS EOLLOWS:From Cincinnati to Big Sandy, 148 miles. Covington and Ohio llrilroad (fromBig Sandy to Coviogton), 224 “•Virginia Central Railroad (fromCovington to Iliclimoud) 200 11Richmond to Norfolk • 90 ' “008 miles.Total distance from Cincinnati toNorfolk 043 miles,which is 121 miles shorter thao the shortest railroad route between Cinoinnati and the Atlantic sca-coast.From Richmond to Jackson’s river depot, a distance of 196 miles, tho Virginia Central railroad is completed, and the State has expended three million of dollars on the Covington and Ohio Railroad, which interest it is now offering to transfer to any company who will finish the road to the Ohio river.So well has this road been locatedi'his docs not include the coal consumed at i that there is only one ascent and ono do Pittsburg, or the coal shipped elsewhere. scent from the Ohio rivor to the Cbcsa-Qunntity of coal mined duriog the pcako bay. And this can be said of no year 1S04. at iho Pittsburg coal fields, [other railroad crossing the Alleghany was 48,462,966 bushels. Of which i Mountains. Tn fact, tho road from tho amount 29,511,567 bushels, as just j Ohio river to Baltimore has several as-staled, were shipped down tho Ohio ,000(8 mid descents, with a maximum river. If to this latter quantity there be j grade of 116 feet to the mile, while the added the coal mined at l’omcroy, Mason ' maximum ascending grade of tho Cov-City, Hartford City, Wheeling, and I ington and Ohio railroad going cast, is other places on the Ohio river above the only 291 feet to tho mile, and tho^maxi-nouth of the Great Kanawha and below uium descending, CO feet to tho roilc. _ Pittsburg, it will malic, in round num- In speaking of the effects of this rail-bcrs, 40,000,000 bushels of coal annually I road on Virginia, a writer woll snid, shipped down tho Ohio rivor by the years ago : “ In her central position inmouth of the GrciU Kanawha, l’uttin this coal at sixteen cents per bushel, the result is $6,400,000, which is tbo valuethe Union, in bor mild and delightful climate, in her noble Chesapeake aod majestic rivers, in her incxhuustiblc roof the coal trade per aunum that passes sources of mineral wealth, and her greatI .1 . . S' iUa It” „ fiM.rlin f\T\ itu tn «t nil I'n rtf I11*1 n «F f! tfll n t HP'fA Rfl Rtutft IIIby tho mouth of the Kanawha, on its way to Cincinnati and other markets— a trade, moreover, that Is rapidly increasing annually in extent, value and importance. Cannot a portion of this vast trade bo drawn from tho Mouooguhoia and Youghiogeny coal fields to tho Coal river coal fields? Docs not the Kanawha coal basin (including Elk and Coalmanufacturing advantages, no state in the Union possesses so mauy of the elements of greatness and power as Virginia. Thcso elements, however, can only be made subservient to her pros perity by the union of her whole pooplo and nothing will so strongly ecmcnt them in feeling and interest as the construction of this great work. Again.rivers) ofl'or to capitalists greater induce-! tho geographical features of Virginia incots for investments than the Pitts-1 urc such as that this great work woald burg 00a I basin docs ? A comparison of! cut her valleys at right aogles, through thc°two will satisfactorily answer the: which, by means of lateral roads, easilyquostionI constructed, the wealth and rosourccs ofKANAWHA COAL FIELDS COMPARED WITH j ll.'“ whole interior would naturally flow THE PtTTSituno COAL fields. ddTustng, by means of Hits central trunk .... , ,• u . • life and energy through every part of(1) Tho Kanawha coal fields contain j ^ „ oJas good bituminous coal as tho best j Furthermore, Virginia's great waYouglnogcny, and tn addition ^‘0 j tcrS/lie is to pass through tho heart of superior splint and canncl coal. , K„,wht coal ficId3i an improvmont(2) The lvanawlia coal fields are 24U 1 _P n‘,:„;ics nearer to Cincinnati and Louisthan the Alleghany, Monongahcla and Youghiogeny coal fields are. The latter being twenty and thirty miles from Pittsburg. (Seo map to this report.)- ' , r. 1 uniting the waters of the Ohio rivorand destined 10 time to rival tbo Eric Canal of New York in importance as a transit for Irado or travel. A canal has been built on and along James riverMouongiibcla « Alleghany near the Pen. 0. It. R. near the city,'• 400•' 450 11 S00below roilll l icasani IS, o course, grvn.- ■ . lh,u lhe ]tru(la|y better than it is Irotn Pittsburg down j UV((crn cuunlry a, lltl0 ,tolcn to Point Pleasant. .ns the Great Kanawha, and J 1(5) The navigation of the Ivanawha,w lielwcelt lhc }IUl^ , n* 1 ... 1 m occn DUIlb UU UUU uiuuz Ujuita0 The Quarterly Trade Urcular from ,iJo Wfltcr at Richnioud t0 Bu-lor kept-1 lSGo, reports the value ol the , ^ jn tho Vnlley of Virginia, a' dis-coal lands near 1 tllsburg, as follows . , (3ncc of 19_ m;,03| at a cost of §10,826,-Coal lnndsou the Youghiogeny,al$200prncrc.!.|92.54, as per report of W. P. Muoford “ Mouoncabclu •• 300 “ j ycc'yi dalcd Qot. l3t, 1SC5.I In the early history of Virginia the [advantages of this water-line coooectioo . ,, , ; attracted the attention of her greatwhilst better coal lands on Coal, Elk and 3talesmaDi Gcorge Washington, having Kanawha rivers cun at this time bo pur becn lhc firjt prcsidcat of lhe 0ld James chased at prices far belovr such ratos Rjvcr Uompany, and filled tho office prices varying according to the prox- j |Vom A sl 21gt) 178rt 0ct_ 5lhlt; imity of tho land to the rivers. 1 1795 [n onc of his letters about this(4) The navigation of the Ohio r«ver! impr0VCIIiait, lie said: 7/cun, I think, clow Point Pleasant is, of course, groat-; ^ ^^ratcd that the produce of thethe Ohio ' believe to(5) Tho navigation of the Kanawha j^, /'„//.lt;, „„d between the. parts above is not obstructed like tho upper Olno. | lhi. jja/:rSi mUy brought to the highest Frequently the Ohio at Pittsburg is ^ w ^ jumet rioer, til a less expense, frozen over, whilst the navigation of the j JC-^ morc cute, including the return, and Kanawha is not even obstructed by ice. {n s],or(cr /ime, than 11con be carFurthermore, New river, the trihijtury I rlcd (/) KaQ 0r/eunJ-” ,of the Kanawha, rises in North Carolina propo3cd watcr lino through Vir-and runs from the south to tlir north; „;nja has advaotagcs both in climate sad and after a severe freeze the warm rains , lt;j;tJtuDCC over tho Pennsylvania Central at the sources or New river bring rises j Canal and ;ew yort ].yic Caoal ns^ s that free the Kanawha of icc, and also j trnn5;t por t|,e Ohio river trade to-.''the free the Ohio river of_ ice. below' PointUllaDlic gea.COast.Pleasant, wliilst the Ohio river, at 1 itts- ||nj ^|j0 0(jvantogc in climaU, boburg, remains from two to four wooks^j causc being much further south, tbe frozen over; or the navigation jhercot i navjgaiion thereof will not bo intcrrupt-obstructed by ice. And ibis, breaking j ej jc0 tQ lRc extent that it is in thoup of the Kanawha iee is just when there, Qtjicr canais. It has greatly the advan-is the grcatost demand for fuel in Cin- j t jn di3tanoe, as shown by the follow-cinnati and Louisville thereby ena-! j|(„ (ablo : bliog Kanawha coal_to be shipped to “ar j Fram Cincinnati to New York, ri.i ket a fortnight oarlicr than the 1 ittsburg Ohio river, PortsmoutU Ca-coal. and at tho very, time when fuel is i nal and Erie Canal 1,123 milesonst needed in those cities. | From Cinoinnati to New York,, ris(C) The Kanawha coal fields are situ. I Toledo Canal and Erls „atcd on what must be in time a great | ^ CiDclnllBU PbiUdolpbU ' highway for the trade and travel ot tne j c!a Ohio rircr to- Piituburg Mississippi Valley to tho Atlantic.soa- i and l’enn. Central Canal , 992 »board. The vast and rapidly iscrcasingi From Cincinnati to For{®lk trade of tbe. Great West is seeking new , . :routes for transit to the cities of the sea ] VhL C«o»l 781' “coast. And tbe route through the Ka-, ^ ^ „horlar then the peaa.nawha ^ a Icy has sdvsnUgcs over *11 8 m Bileg ihortar tht0others in climate, grade ofroadand short* “vnno* ’ - - ““sylraoia route, 284 mitesNew York, Tolodo routs, snd 330inilcs shorter than New York, Ports-
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Charleston West Virginia Journal
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