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ROMANCE OF A FIRE. Tradition Has it That Rejected Lover Set Coal Mino on Firo. Dispatch to Baltimore Sun. On Point Creek, about twenty miles .above this city, near the station at Standard, a coal-mine lire is raging ?a fire about tho origin of which an interesting romanc is woven. At night tho mountainside in which tho mino is located ie ablaze with a wicrd play of light: by day a column of smoke ascends like a monument. In truth, the mountain is afire, an unquenchable lire, as those who have already lost $20,000 in a vain attempt to smother it will testify. In the late .~>0\s of the last, century She Kanawha Coal and Oil Company was organized for the purpose of producing oil from the canncl soal found Sn the mountains divided by Paint Creek. Then vein located was a comparatively thin one, lying in the .heart of a thick seam of the hitumin ins coal. The company was busy with is operations when the civil war 'firokc out, but continued at work for vouie time thereafter. The superintendent was a blunt old rtfiiglishman named Cordon, who had 5.. !v.andsomc daughter, Wowona, who vrras the delight of her father's heart rind the despair of the young men of ' he neighborhood. There was the imkiI courtimr and flirtimr, with the. usu:il final selection of one man and he inevitable preparations for the wvddimr. The lucky man was one Adkiii a native of the mountains a strapping young fellow, who had won *ihe father's favor iis a workman even before he won the daughter's esteem as a lover. Thus I hi' course of true Jove seemed tu run smooth. Hut the war came and the Paint 4'Veck section was as badly torn bv 'opposing factions as any other small part of the entire country. The na lives were of the south, while most of those who had come to work in tho mines were Union men. Of I lie latter was old man Cordon while Adkius was a regular lire-eating son of Dixie. After several stormy interviews Adl dns was forbidden to enter tho Cordon home and liowena was ordered not to see him. lie enlisted in "the Confederate army and marehod out with Wise on his famous retreat vap the valley. This was in the spring of 18(51. In the autumn ho returned home on a furlough and sought to irenow amicable relations with tho ^Gordons, but was repulsed by both f'father and daughter. Tt is said that "Sir. spirit of revenge he set. tire to "tire, drum house at the mouth of the 'iniue. The (ire was communicated "to jiie rich vein of canncl coal inside, :tarid, obtaining a good hold, has been hbiiniing ever since. 'Adkius returned to his regiment -and was killed in battle. The Cordons left the country soon after, and iheir subsequent history is not known here. That is the romantic version. The prosaic one is that fire was communicated to 1 ho mine by a forest tire ihai raged furiously in October, 1 S01. Certain it thai the mine lieiian to burn at that time and lias been burning ever since. In the late 'SO "s :i company was v'ormed by Charleston men to extinguish the tire and reopen the mine, but after spending .f'JO.OOl) in a vain attempt the enterprise was abandoned. It is prohuhle that the lire will ?>e allowed to burn until the entire 'vein of coal is consumed. Often, for years ;it a time, the fire cannot be seen, but there is always something about the locality to bear witness to its presence. Sometimes it Ss smoke, sometimes it is steam. In wet weather there is always a vapor | '.rising from above the mine. In winter snow melts as rapidly as it falls on the particular spot, while tho ground around is w'aite. In the spring vegetation appears earlier where the h is wann from this un.'. 'riving .neat. Of late it has been I * 11 i 11 tr visibly at night, the extent being perhaps a hundred yards along the f.tee of !ii( mounia''GOLD IN VAST SUPPLY. 'The lime has come when gold is an "KTiiele of manufacture, writes F. U.. Adams in Success Magazine. Titer? arc practically exhanstless tracts of rock and soil in which gold is being produced in enormous quantities with absolute elimination of risk. I shall "briefly consider two typical instances ' of "gold manufacture," either one of which is snfTcient to doom gold as 1 medium of exchange. In 1884 fhe discovery of the greatest deposits of go hi in all history was made known. This was in the Witwatersrand district of the Transvaal of South Africa. Compared with it the tfamous Comstock mines were nothing. Not until recent years has it i>een possible to go ahead with the 1 4\ cxlraclion of (he billions in gold which arc scattered through "the rocks and soil of (he Witwatersrand. j It required new processes, but science a nil invention supplied them, llero is a gold-bearing reel', 40 miles in length, 20 miles in width and in which borings tG a depth of y,500 feet show gold in undiminished quantities! How much gold is (here in (he Witwatersrand 7 Hundreds, probably thousands ot billions of dollars of it! i he Witwatersrand conglomerate carries only the insignificant amount of ten pennyweight of gold (o the ton, but it runs uniform, therefore it is only a question of machinery and labor lo determine (lie yield. Money supplies (he machinery and China (he labor. The annual production of the I ransvaal gold factories now oxcecils $1 MO,000,(100 and (lie record is 1 broken every month. If lnbor can be hail, there is no reason why the output should ttu( reach half a billion a \ year, and (he rock can be worked for centuries without making a serious impression on its vast extent. N'<?l many years ago it was discovered that all ol the soil in the .Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys was filled with gold. We will consider what is being done in the Sacramento. Kor hundreds ?f miles I his river "ins through a broad valley of a width varying from twenty to more' limn one hundred miles. When it became known that gold was scattered through the soil this 20,000 square miles of valley, capital called on science and invention for assistance. I he distant mountains were made lo lurnish water power for electricity. I hen there was built a floating goid factory at a cost of $250,000. It took a position near a bank of the river, and with its dredging appliances began to eat its way into the soil. The mud and dirt were carried over the huge scow, the gold extracted, the tailings were dumped in the rear. 1 bus was witnessed the strange sight of a factory crawling slowly overland toward the distant foothills. It rested in a canal of its own making; i( was run will, electrical power ?enerJited by a mountain brook; it worked twenty-four hours a day with three shifts of men; the amount of gold extracted was as uniform as tho thrust of its motors; its mine was an ocean of mud; there was no more romance about its operation than there is about a briekiln, and yet that , $2,'>0,000 gold factory made a net protit of ^00,000 the first year. * e J Hrxvo \JfEJ sorr>e /v? J coFfee?M% ?*. ?> O.NM> ??-W Newberry , S . C. , Dear Fr i end: ? I am getting ! drink tea find cc I? Are you? ^ Papa and Main; coffee just for g they get such g< ^ that they drink ^ ci day. They saj/ ^ in town is Blanl Your * J P. S. It's alway.s forgot tl ^ Blanke's cof fee ^ and 3 5 cts, a p< q JONES' + Fant - ? THEO. 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