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SIX ROMANCE OF A FIRE. itradition Has it That Rejected Lover Set Coal Mine on Fire. Dispatch to Baltimore Sun. On Paint Creek, about twenty miles ;above this city, near the station at Standard, a coal-mine fire is raging --a fire about the origin of which an interesting romane is woven. At night the mountainside in which the mine is located ie ablaze with a wierd play of light: by day a column of smoke -'ascends like a monument. In truth the mountain is afire, an unquench. .able fire, as those who have already lost $20,000 in a vain attempt tc -smother it will testify. In the late 50's of the last centur the Kanawha Coal and Oil Compani organized. for the purpose o: -producing oil from the cannel soa found 9n the mountains divided b: Paint Creek. Then 'Vein located wa4 a comparatively thin one, lying in th leart of a thick seam of the bitumm ,ous eoal. The company was busy witl fits operations when the civil wa Tbroke out, but continued at work fo: some time thereafter. The superintendent was a blunt 014 Englishman named Gordon, who hai Za handsome daughter, Rowena, wh rx.s the delight of her father's hear :ana the despair of the young men c ,the teighborhood. There was tb nsual courting and flirting, with th sual final selection of one man an ithe inev table preparations for th - wedding. The lucky man was or Adkin a native of the mountains strapping young fellow, who had wo the father's favor as a workman eve before he won - the daughter's esteei -as a lover. Thus the course of trt ~love seemed to run smooth. But the war came : id thtP1 -Creek section was as badly torn I lopposing factions as any' other sme part of the entire country. The n -tives were of the south, while most i those who had come to work in t] -mines were Union men. Of the latt -was bld man Gordon while Adki -was a regular fire-eating son of Dir After several stormy intervie, Adkins was forbidden to enter t Oordon home and Rowena was ord4 ed not to, see him. He enlisted -the Confederate army and march 'iut with Wise on his famous retre 'up the valley. This was in the spri -eof 1861. In the autumn he return ~home on a furlough and sought irenew smicable relations with .1 4Geid1ons, but was repulsed by b< SaEer and daughter, It is said tI ni~a spirit. of revenge he set fire -:?he drum house at the month ofi ei(mIe. The fire was communicai tiotthe rieh vein of cannel coal insi *au7,- obtaining a good %old, has bE S m.riiing ever since. Sadkins returned to his regim -and -3. killed in battle. The G -dons left the, e~ountry soon after, a their subsequent history is not knlo ~here. That is the romantic version. 5 -prosaic one is that fire was comm ieated to the mine by a forest.1 that raged furiously in October, 16 SCertain it is that the mine begat burn at that time and has been ht ing ever since. In the late 'SO's a company formed by Chagleston men to ex guish the fire f.nd reopen the in but after spending $20,000 in a --.attempt the enterprise was abanm ed. It is probable that the fire be allowed to burn until the er -ein of coal is consumed.. Often, for years at a tune, the cannot be seen, but there is als' ~something about 'The locality to 1 -witness to its presence. Sometime is smoke, sometimes it is steam -get weather there is always a va rjiig from- above the mine. In iter snow melts as rapidly as it: non the particular spot, while 'ground around is white. In the sp vezetationi appears earlier where rezh is warm from th's une%ri vaeat. Of late it has been 1.'! -'visibly at night, the extent I perhaps a hundred. yards along K -i'ace of the mountar GOLD IN VAST SUPPLY. "The time has come when gold saiiile of manufacture, writes ] .Kdams ~in Success Magazine. -are practically exhaustless trac rock and sdil in which gold is produced in enormous quantities absolute eliniinationi of risk. I 2biefly consider two typical insi est! "gold manufacture,'' eithe: 'of which is suiffcient to doom gi :s medium of exchange. In 1884 the discovery of the - *st deposits of gold in all histor mfade known. This was in the 'V tersrand district of the Transv *South Africa. Compared with deous Comstock mines were ing. Not until recent years .aeen possibl to go ahead wi1 extraetin of th1 billions ill gold which are scattered throug-h the rocks and soil of the Witwatersrand. It required new processes, but science and invention supplied them. Here is' a gold-bearing reef, 40 miles in length, 20 miles in width and in which borings to a depth of 3,500 feet show gold in undiminished quantities! How much gold is there in the Witwater srand? Hundreds, probably thousands of billions of dollars of it! The Witwatersrand congiomerate carries only the insignificant amount of ten pennyweight of gold to the ton, but it runs uniform, therefore it is only a question of machinery and labor to determine the yield. Money supplies the machinery and China the labor. The annual production of the Transvaal gold factories now -ax ceeds $100,000,000 and the record is broken every month. If labor can be had, there is no reason why the out put should not reach half a billion a year, and the rock can be worked for centuries without making a ser r ious impression on its vast extent. Not many years ago it was discov ered that all of the soil in the Sacra I mento and San Joaquin valleys was I filled with gold. We will consider ) what is being done in the Sacramen t to. For hundreds of miles this river f runs through a broad valley , of a e width varying from twenty to more e than one hundred miles. When it be d came known that gold was scattered e through the soil this 20,000 square , miles of valley, capital called on a science and invention for assistance. 1 The distant mountains were made to 2 furnish water power for electricity. 3 Then there was built a floating gold L3 factory at a cost of $250,000. It took a position near a bank of the riv t er, and with its dredging appliances ,Y began to eat its way into the soil. The 1 mud and dirt were carried over the &- huge scow, the gold extracted, the tailiis were dumped in the rear. l Thus was witnessed the strange sight r of a factory crawling slowly overland . toward the distant foothills. It rest - ed in a canal of its own making; i V was run with electrical power gener he ated by a mountain brook; it workei r- twenty-four hours a day with thref shifts of men; the amount of go 84 extraeted was as uniform as thb M thrust of its motors; its mine was ai Eg ocean of mud; there was no more ro emance about its operation than thera o is about .a }iriekila,' and yet tha hO $250,000 gold factory made a net prc h fit of $300,000 the first year. to an- . ase 4 - - . te, un re. tre 0 ays0 ear* sit0 >por* win-Newberry , S. 4 the Dear Friend: ring I am getti * drink tea and nin 0Are you? ing * Papa and 1N the coffee just fi * they get such * that they dr i ian a day. They [Ue. in town is B] sofO o being* with* shall p. g, Its nes alway,s f orge t )d as* Blanke's cofif *and 35 cs great-* al of * THEO. LAMBRAY'S Ladies' & Gents' ice Cream Parorsi We make and deliver on order the FINEST ICE CREAM on earth. Every variety. Vanilla, Chocolate, Straw berry, Peach, Pineapple. 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