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CLINCHFIuD COAL FMELDS. Mr. W. H. Stone Writes of Possibili ties of That Section.-1,000. 000,000 Tons. 1a a recent issue of the ii:fac trer's Record Mr. William U1. Stone has a very interesting and very in tetive article on the CIinehteld mining district of West Virginia. Mr. Stone says in part "In the extreme southwestern part of Virginia, close to the boundary line of Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia, there is being developed along the broadest possible lines one of the largest coal areas in the coan try, possessing from investigations so fax made, a conservative estimate of 1,000,000,000 tons of coal and rank ing in value with the best produced for steam and domestic purposes and the manufacture of coke and gas. " The property is that of the Clinch field Coal Corporation, and some idea can be formed from the statement that the kuantity and quality of this coal -was one of the chief reasons for the bilding the $35,000,000 Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio railway, conneet ing by the lowest grade and most di reet route this coal field with that large consuming area in the South, extending from Virginia to Florida, as well as -reaching the Central West ern States by a line now being built to Elkhorn, Ky., where connection will be made with'the Chesapeake & Ohio Tailway, those behind the undertang thoroughly realizing that to properly serve its purpose these properties' must be developed in a manner that would be fully commensurate witI .the value of the holdings. They had' in mind the vast resources of the South and the wonderful future pos sibilities of this section in all lines o. endeavor. That they are in every way measuring up to their opportu 2ities is well evidenced by an inspec-' of the results already obtained, and which indicate the broadness of the plams covering the development. "The company's properties are lo-! tated in Russell, Wise, Dickenson and Buchanan counties, and have a total arear of about 300,000 acres.. 'Coal ooears in five distinct seams. These, aken in order from the highest down ward, are known as follows: Clintwood. Upper Baaner. Lower Banner. Widow Kennedy. Imboden. "A triangulation survey 'has been made of the entire property, and this has greatly facilitated the plotting of the .property and the location and lay ig out of new development work. Abou't one-third of the property has so far been thoroughly prospected, including the running of about 500 miles of crop line survey, 3,000 open ins and 15,000 feet of diamond drill igs. The results of this work s.how in this area the following average serage, average thicknes and min able tonnage, Average Minable Aeres. thickness, tonnage. Citwood 7,000 6 feet 43,000,000w Upper Banner 26,000 5 feet 159,.390,000 Lower Banner 20,180 4 feet 88,444.000 Widow Kennedy 10,000 3 feet 30,000,000 Iboden 31,000 6 feet 223,200.000 Total 94,180 3)64,054,000 "With these definite results as a 7asis. and from general prospecting done in the remaining two-thirds of e property, it is conservatively esti mated that there is altogether at least 100,000.000 tons of mi-nable coal a supply satiii'-ient in quantity to fur fnih a enormflous~ output for an in definite period. The production of 2,-i 500,000 tons annually'. wh.ich will be ecred by the end of -the present Syear, is all being taken from openings on only one s.eam-the Upper Banner, so that the average layman can form soe -iden of the tremendous possibili tie of this coal field for many years 4o come." INSCRIPTIONS WANTED. agestions Invited for Inscriptions for Mo&nument to Women of the Confederacy. The following has been issued: South Carolina Commission fo the Monument to the Women of the Confederacy, Columbia. S. C.. Aug. 31. '09. To the Men of South Carolina: Two inscriptions will be required fr the t wo large panels of the..pedes tl of the South Carolina monument, to the womne-i of the Confederacy. These inscriptionls are designed to "decare to the world what these wo men of the South did to deserve ti I horin."Each muhlst conin from 0 t,o 80 words, prefeCrab)ly 60. The men of our State are( cordially invited to' suggest appropriaite word in for these inseriPtions. Those eemed most suitable by the comis be sen, Can . Win. E. (r)nzale-. secretary an treaurer, Colurnbia. be fore November 1. 1909. C. Irvine Walker, Chairman: T. J. Moore, C. A. Reed, J. G. Richards, J., Wm. E. Gonzales, -Sec. and Treas. Papers of State please copy. 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