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The Big Stone
VOL. XX.
Post
S?^9_NE_GAP. WISE COUNTY, VA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. \9\2?
No. 38
Remarkable
Bed of Coal
Being Mined on Roaring Fork
by Blackwood Coal &
Coke Company.
The- Bluckwood Coal ami
Coke Company, whoso general
office ia at Bluckwood, Wise
County, Virginia, uro now miu
iiiK ;i remarkable bod of coul
cafied the"Parde6." Thin Hold
is located in tho northwest part
0f Wise county, Virginia, und
Southeast part of hotelier,
county, Kentucky, in the Big
Black Mountain range of the
Appalachian Bystem, und iH
about twelve miles northeast of
Appalachia, Wise county, Vir?
ginia, the terminal point of the
Virginia & Sotithwoatorn Rail?
road Company, which ia owned
und controlled by the Southern
Kailwav Company?
The Wearing Fork Kailrotu!
in connection with the Inter?
state ltuilrouil in in operation to
tin' Untiring Kork mine of the
Black wood Coul und Coke Com?
pany's plant at Roaring Fork,
Va. The Interstate Railroad
connects at Appalneluu with
:lii' Louisville & Nashville K.
R., anil at Norton with the N.
& \V., and the Kouring Fork
connects with the L. N. ut
Blackwood, thus insuring com?
petition and in consequence,
low.freight rates, The proper?
ty extends to the Poor Fork of
the Cumberland River of Ken.
lucky, and is very mountainous
and ih drained in Wise county,
Va.. by i'ot Camp Fork and
Roaring Fork, which empties
Into Hoarding Fork of Powells
River. In Letoher county, by
Smith* Creek und Franks Creek
the Poor Fork of tho Cumber?
land. The Big Black Moun?
tain is the dividing line between
Virginlaand Kentucky, the low?
est ih nhoiit 3,ooo foot above
tid<;, hut the surrounding sum?
mits reach un olevntion as high
as 3,800 feet above tide. The
property is well timbered and
consists of several kinds of oak,
chestnut, birch, poplar, maple,
etc., and the Black wood Coal
und Coke Company huvo erect
id a modern and up to dale
light foot band mill to saw the
? r tit I'ardeo Junction, Va.
I'hifi mill will turn out approxi
mately a million feet per month.
The mill machinery was furn?
ished bj Clark Bros., of Bel
itiont, N. V., thu log loader he?
ilig a Nu. id Burnhart, made hy
the Marion Stettin Shovel Co.,
0( .Marion Ohio. The 72 ton
Hluiy geared locomotive which
brings the logs from the woods
to the mill on lumber cars made
by W. Oliver Mfg. Co.,of Knox
ville, Tenn, The section is
particularly valuable, on ac?
count of tho tiiie I..-i- of coul
which it contains, and as the
coal forming the ranges of the
Appalachian Vally were deposi?
ted upon tho sea bottom, they
must havti originally extended
in horizontal Inyors. At the
present, howovor, tho beds are
usually not horizontal, but In?
cline ut various angles from
where it appours at tho surface.
The beds of this property that
ore being developed are tho
Taggart, I'ardeo, High Splint,
the beds dipping approximate?
ly -! per cent west. The Tag?
gart has been thoroughly pros?
pected over all tho property,
and was found in excellent con?
dition both physically and
chemically and is about 1* feet
thick. The analysis of this coul
shows, MoiBturo 0.05, Vol. Mat
tor :i7 7'.*, Fixed Corbin 55.!U,
Mh 5.42. This bed is oponed
at an elevation of 2,358 feet
above tide, and therefore con?
tains a very large acreuge.
The I'ardeo bed is n phenom?
enal one, and Prof. J. M. Ilodge,
Geologist of the Kentucky Geo?
logical Survey, pronounced it
"a wonderful deposit." 11
averages 10 feot 4 inches in
thickness, and the coal is prac
!l ally clean and free from part
logs, with a good tloor nnd a
fundstono top. Analysis of
Booth, Gnrett & Blair shows
the following.
Moisture.3.31
Volatile. 85.74
*'iM*l Carbon. 68.83
Ash. 3.18
This bed is opened at an ele
Salpbni,
I'hostiliortta
B. T. U.
0.00
ll.OOt
.14832
votion of 2744 feet above tide,
ami it was necessary to run to
coal down an incliue about 1,
200 feet in length. The coal is
let down in the cars as it comes
from the mine by an eight foot
spool drum made by the San
ford Day Iron Work?, Kuox
ville. Tonn. The mine cars are
made by the same people and
are of 120 cubic foot capacity,
or approximately three tons.
Three cars are let down the in
ellno at a time with a li inch
6x18 plow steel rope, and from
the foot of the incline a tram
road about 0000 feet in length
on :t per cent descending grade.
The coal is moved by a 12-ton
Aimor Plato Motor, made by
Jeflrey Mfg. Co , Columbus,
< ?hio. The tipple is arranged
with Phillips cross over dump,
and the screening appnratus
made by \VYJ. Suvago it Co.,
Knox ville, Tonn., consists of
shaker bar screens, operated by
a 2(i II. P. Motor. The nut und
slack passes through 2-inch
shaker hars, the egg through
?Vilich, and the block over the
f> inch. The hars aro ko arranged
that they car. easily be changed
so as to screen any size of coal
the market demands.
The power house is built of
light colored brick, as is also
the boiler house, the power is
obtained from tsx2ix;iu Com?
pound Vertical A utomatic,
Church, Korr, Wostinghouso
engine, direct connected with
000 volt 1). 0. 228 K. \V. Gener?
ator. The boiler house contains
two 72x18 150 II. P. return tu?
bular boilers, made by the
Houston Stand wood \- Gamble
Co., Cincinnati!, a boiler feed
pump, made by John Mellow
an Co., Cincinnati!, a Warren.
Webster 1600 II. P. feed water
heater, the exhaust from tin
power house engine going into
this heater and heating the
water 212 degrees V.
The poouliartiy o f Pardee
coal, is that it burns absolutely
without a clinker, giving com
bustion, the fusiug tempera,
turu of the ash being 2711) de?
grees P. It is simply impossi?
ble for this coal to clinker, and
therefore it is an ideal fuul.
The coal is under cut to the
depth of 0 and 7 feet by JetTroy
28-A shortwall machines, and
in the course of thirty days will
be loaded in the mines by a
shoveling machine manufac?
tured in Knox ville by The Con?
tract Shoveling Co., Inc. The
coul is very'hard, lumps nicely
and is great stocker. In the de?
velopment work a large amount
of the coal was thrown on the
ground and after four years'
exposure it showed but very
little disintegration.
The High Splint be.l lying
approximately at an elevatiou
of ii.OOO feet above tide, aver?
age it feet in thickness, is now
being developed, and is also a
high grade fuel. The High
Splint bed is probably the high?
est of the thick beds workuble
coals, it is a splint of unusually
good character and in the win?
ter of 1802 and 1893, two sec?
tions of this coal were taken
from this bed and placed on
display, one in ,1m Virginin,
and the other in the Kentucky
oxhibit of tin- World's Pair at
Chicago,111.These sections worn
taken from the outcrop not
more than 20 feet under cover
The coal thrown out for mak?
ing the entry for that purpose
was necessarily wasted, thir?
teen years afterwards thiB wast?
ed coal, which had been expos?
ed to the weather throughout
the period, was apparently uti
injured by reason of such expo
sure. Typical analysis of same j
Iis.
Moisture. ?.68
Volatile. . MM
KUwl Carbon. 68.61
Aah. M? I
Sulphur.M !
11. T. U.1*1?
At Koaring Fork, Va., the
Blackwood Coal and Coke Com?
pany is mining the celebrated
Had Bird steam coal, average
analysis shows.
Moisture . 1-28
Volatile Matter. W.W
Carlsm. SO.62
Aah... I-*"
Sulphur. 0.07
I'hosphorua. (?009
II. T. I. 161?
This mine is also olectrically
I operated, and the coal is under?
cut with.left*roy 28 A Shortwall
1 Machines. ?Knoxville Trade
Journal.
J. C. Bowen, of Tazewell,
(was iu town one day last week.
Mr. Slemp
Nominated at Bristol for'
Congress Over His
Protest.
Bristol; Tonn., Aug. 28.?At)
the conclusion of the stormiest |
convention in the Ninth dis?
trict in recent yeurs, l.jld hero
today, ihn Ke|iublicans tonight
roiiominuted C. Hascomb Slemp.
The excitement und wranglu,
hinting for neurly two hours,
was due to an olTbrt to have the
name of Slemp withdrawn from
tho convention, due to tho fact
that three telegrnmu wore re?
ceived from him during tho day
in which ho stated that ho did
not feel physically equal to tho
task, owing to Iiis strenuous
duties of the past two or three
yenrs, which had threatened
his health.
During the prolonged discus?
sion, which continued until
10:30 o'clock tonight, tho Bull
Mooses made efforts to bring
about the nomination of Dr. J. [
M. Dougherty, of Scott county,
IIis nomination wus seconded
by several countiim and efforts
were made to stampede tho
convention in his behalf. But
for the fact that tho Slemp men
would not withdraw the name
of the congressman, Dougherty
might have won.
ll had been plain throughout
the day that the hope of the ad?
ministration men lay in Slemp,
that he could combine their
votes with enough of tho Moos?
es to win. When, at 11:00
o'clock tonight it seemed to be
the fact that Slemp's name wus
to remain before the conven?
tion, there was no further
doubt what the result wus to
be and ouly one ballot was ne?
cessary. Slemp received on
this ballot, 408 of a total of 674
votes, while Dougherty received
IKi 1-2 votes. Slemp's nomina?
tion was then, upon motion of
Robert A. Anderson, of Smyth
county, made unanimous.
Dr. Dougherty was called |
upon for a speech and he re?
sponded promptly, pledging his
nearly support, personally, to I
Slemp, but at the same lime
saying that lie will cast his voto
for Roosevelt i u November.
His speech was received with
deafening cheers when be an?
nounced that he will support
Slemp ami with even a moro
noisy demoiibtratiou when he
declared for Roosevelt.
The following numuB wen?
placed before the convention as
candidates of counties, follow,
ing the wrangle over whether
Slemp's nuine should be with?
drawn: C. B. Slump, of Wise
county, Dr. S. M. Dougherty,
of Scott couuly. (JharleuS. Pen
dleton, of Scott county; Goorgo|
W. Litz, of Wise county: J.
Williamson McGuvock, o f
Wythe county, a u d former
State Senator Roland K. Chase,
of Dickinson county. Mr. Mc
Gavock's name was not voted
upon after he made his state?
ment on the Hoar: "1 would I
rather see Slemp nominated |
and re-elected than to go my
self to the United States senate I
or be elected presideut t o n |
thousand times."
Beautiftl Dance.
Mrs. 0. P. Blanton gavo a
very delightful dance on last
Wednesday night at Collier
Hall lti honor of her cousin,
Miss Fern Minor, of Birming?
ham, and Miss Kuth McCluen,
of Bristol.
Those dancing were: Misses
Margaret Bullitt, Carolyne
Uhouds, Ann MeCormiok, of
Etowah, Tenn., Lillian Lloyd,!
Anna Agee, Fern Minor, Vir-j
ginia Beverley, Josophino Kel?
ly, Emily Bullitt, of Louisville,
Sarah Cochran, Jessee McCor
kle, Ruth and Clara Rucker, of
Washington. Messrs. W. H.
Polley, J. A. Goodloe, J. W.
Gaut, Harry Price, Dr. Bowyer
and Mr.Finney.of Stonega.Sam
McCluen, R. R. CaBper, B. E.
Furgorson, Frank Gaut, of Bris?
tol, George Moore, Byron
Rhoads, Curtis Campbell, C.
Hollenbech, G. G. McPheron
and Vivion Mouser.
Between dances delicious
sandwiches and punch was
served.
Senator Martin
Defends Vir?
ginia
Tells the Senate She. could
Have Better Rosds if She
Could Collect What
the Government
Owes Her.
Criticisms of Virginia roads,
especially those from Washing?
ton to Arlington and Mount
Vernon, wore voiced by Seuu
tor McCumber in the senate to?
day in a speech in which ho
was attacking proposed amend?
ments to tho poBtoQico appro,
priation bill providing for fed?
eral and tlnuncial aid for build?
ing roads.
Senator McCumber admitted
the bad condition of the roads
in many states and expressed
the opinion that tho states
themselves ought to get busy
and make highway improve?
ments. Senator Martin, o f
Virginia, asked if Mr. McCum?
ber had any states in particu?
lar in mind.
"I Bhould liko," replied Mr.
McCumber, "to be able to ride
on u good road from hero to
Arlington national ocmotory.
To this slap at Virginia, Mr.
Martin retorted that tho United
States owed tho Old Dominion
money that had been contribute
ed to Uncle Sam to enable him
to establish tho seat of govern?
ment in the "Village" ofWashk
ington.
"If the United States owes
money to Virginia," Senator
McCumber recommentod, "I
hope it will he paid and that
Virginia will be allowed to do
with it whut the State pleases.
Hut 1 urn opposed to taxing tho
people of North Dakota for
building a road between Wash?
ington and Mount Vernon.
"I would like to be able some
time to drive to the home of
the Father of .His Country , but
there is no road available, I
menu no road lit to travel over
most of the year."
"Wo dedicated to tho purpose
the debt which the United
States owes to the Stale of Vir?
ginia," replied Senator .Mai tin
There are many miles of good,
macadam roads, continued Mr.
Martin, and much money is bo
iug spent annually by the State
for the inproveinent of its rouds.
In one county, lie said, a bond
issue of $2,000,000 has. been au?
thorized to improve the roads.
"We are simply asking, the
national government to help us
in the work which we are uow
doing," he concluded.?Wash?
ington Star.
Young Mr. Reeder Entertains
On Friday night Andrew
Heeder entertained u number
of the youngor set with a danc?
ing party at his beautiful home
on Poplar Hill.
Music was furnished by the
Taylor Orchestra and dancing
was enjoyed until u late, hour,
after which lunch, consisting
of sulad, ico cream, cake and
candy was served.
Among those jireaout were:
[Misses Huby kemper, Annu
! Agee, Huth 1'reBcott, Hellen
jDalv, of Terra Haute, Marga?
ret 1'ettitt Carolyne Rhonda,
.Jute Uullitt, Louise Good loo
and Josephine Kelly. Messrs.
Vivion Mouser, Creed Kelly,
John A. Qoodloe, George
Rhoads, Henry McCormick,
Carlisle Skeon, Byron Rhoads
and Rowland Kemper.
Owing to a alight delay in
getting in bridge steel the track
laying gang did not cross the
bridge at Lewis Hocks until
last Monday. The steel will
easily reach Mouth of Hock,
house and maybe cross the
bridge above that place this
week. Hurry up and get to
town. We need yo. ? Whiten
burg Kagle.
Miss. Janie Sletup, sister of
Congressman Slemp, was a vis
tor in Bristol Wednesday es
route from Chilhowie, Va.,
where she has been visiting
Miss Virginia Qreever, to her
[home at Big Stone Oap, Va.?
I Bristol Harald Courier.
"Debauching The Electorate."
One A. P. Strother, of Pear,
islmrg, is quoted iu Sunday's!
Roanoke Times as sayiug be?
fore a Republican mass-meet
ing in Giles county "that ho
regretted that Virginia should
bo dragged down iu slime and
tilth by a certain judge Doing
accused of contributing to tho
campaign fund to debauch the
manhood of his district anil
then afterwards persecuting tho
poor devils."
The reference is evidently to
Judge Skuen, whom, wo believo
has nover been "accused", but
has said openly and freely of
his own accord that he has con?
tributed to the campaign funds
of hin party, like hundreds of
otbor honorable ami rospecta
bio men have dono and uro do?
ing today. Judgo Skeon be?
lieves in Democratic principles
with an. ardor, that is almost
religious in its nature. So be?
lieving, cvepresumo that he has
contributed of his meuns for
years to the end that Democrat?
ic principles might triumph.
To say or to hint that ho has
ever contributed to such funds
for the purpose of intimidating
or bribing voters is to utter a
monstrous falsehood against a
sincere man and an able and
upright judgo.
According, to Mr. Btrothor's
view of tho matter, ovory man
who contributes to a campaign
fund does bo for the purpose of
debauching the electorate. Pro?
bably, that is Mr. Strother's foot?
ings and experience so far as
lie is individually concerned,
but hie accusatiou dues not lit
other men of moral discrimina?
tion and whose activities .are
not devoted entirely to peanut
politics.
Mr. Strother has a perfect
right to measure hia own corn
by his'own half-bushel, but ho
cannot apply.the same inoastire
to other men. especially to men
of Judge Bkoen'a character and
standing.?Wise Virginian.
Campbell And Irvine To
Canpaign For Aycrs.
Hon. Preston \V. Campbell,
of Abingdon, who wus tempo?
rary chairman of the conven?
tion held in Bristol iu March,
which nominate.I General R.
A. Ayers, of Big Stone Gap, us
tho Democratic candidate for
Congress, was a visitor iu Bris?
tol Thursday.
Mr. Campbell stated that bl?
and Hon. K. Tale Irvine, of
Big Stone Gap, would take the
stump for Wilson und Ayers
next week'and that they would
open in Leo county.
"Ayers is a winner in my
judgment," declared Mr. Camp?
bell. "There is great enthusi?
asm among tho Democrats ami
we will have the assistance of
many w h o have heretofore
VOted the Republican ticket.
but who are insurgents this
year. A spleudid organization
is being perfected and I believe
that General Ayers will be
elected to congress."
Mr. Campbell said that a
great crowd would he at Ab?
ingdon, September 2:t to grout
Henry C. Stuait, who speaks
thero on that day in behalf of
General Avers,?Bristol Herald
Courier.
Relic from Pound Gap.
Mr. Albert Jenkins sends us
a piece of timber from the
Pound Gap breast works, built
by<the Boys in Gray iu 1801.
He directs us to deliver tho relic
to Major S. P. McConnoll. In
his letter he says he thinks that
Ml JJ McConnell and George
C. Peters helped build the
breast works. The works are
on the Kentucky side somo
thirty steps from the Virginia
lino.?Gate Oity Herald.
I WANTED.
CZfYMINiCRS wanted by
Btonegap Colliery Com?
pany, Glamorgan, Va. Steady
work. Highest price pot ton
paid in the district. Healthy
camp. Excellent water. School
and church facilities.
Stonegap Colliery Co.
130. J. S. CHBVMEV, Qco'l Sup
The Bond Issue.
There is no question but that
Wise County will have to issue
more bonds to complete our
system of public roads. Tho
present money avnilable for
that purpose will not near ma?
cadamize ail the main roads
now graded, and it would be
folly to leave these ungraded
roads unmacadamizoa. In
spooking of this proposition the
Appalachia Progressive in its
last issue vory aptly says:
"The proposition for a furth?
er bond issuo to complete the
roads already provided for by
the Supervisors seems reasona?
ble, and should appeal to the
voter. What you do at all, do
well, is a good axiom, and the
big expenditure already voted
by the tax-payers should be re?
garded as an investment and
oo snfo guarded by every possi?
ble mcaus. It could not be
foreseon that the great sum
voted would be inadequate, but
now as it is demonstrated, tho
hotter policy is to conservo and
make servicablo to the people
tho ronds already began, and
which must remain unfinished
and at least partially useless
unless subvened by another ap?
propriation. That some of the
money has been wasted, goon
without saying, but you nave
been getting an education in
roads that you havo never had
beforo, and tho waste will be
more carefully guarded against
hereafter.
"Your neighboring counties
of Tazowoll, Kussel! ami Leo
uro in tho snmo situation, but
we hear nothing said about
"stooping" road building.
"Even with another boud is?
sue, tho interest and sinking
fund will bo as nothing com?
pared to the bontlts secured di?
rectly from the road and in the
increased value of your proper?
ties. To tho rich man the small
incroaso in tax will bo a bega
tolle, and to the very poor man
it will afford good employment
and opportunities which no has
never enjoyed. All should vote
for it bond issue sutliciont to
complete the schedule outlined
by the Supervisors."
Currier-Vicars.
Miss Hnzol Currier, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. \V. M. Ourrler,
of Ashville, IN. C .and Mr. Kd
wnrd Vicars, of Wise, sprang a
huge surprise on their many
friends in this section last weok
when it became known they
were mit-tly married at the
bride's home the previous week.
The young lady's father was
formerly located at (ilatnorgau
where he was interested in a
big lumber corporation, and the
groom is a sou of Mr. and Mrs.
O. M. Vicars, of Wise.
The Post joins u host of
friends in wishing them "bon
voyage."
Children's Home Society
Agent Here.
ltov. E. Vi Kuhle, of Abing
don, financial secretary of the
Children's Homo Society of
Virginia, was in town last week
in the interest of the society,
which was organized for and is
conducting a work meriting,
high praise and ? tho support of
evory true Virginian who feels
nit interest in the unfortunate
outcust and orphaned children
of this state. The Sooiety has
been in existence many years
and has placed many orphans
and children whose parent or
parents woro conducting im?
proper lives, into homes, where
they were adopted and brought
up under proper inthienceB
into true manhood and woman?
hood.Some nre now holding on
viablo positions of trust, even
to that of a governor of a
State.
Isaac Whittalter, a bad char?
acter in the Eastern Kentucky
Mountains was shot through I
the leg while trying to evade
arrest at the hands of deputy
i sheriff Ingrain, near Whites
jburg, Ky., last week. Whitta
ker had broken away from his
guard some time ago, and offi?
cer Ingram came upon him and
ho ran a short distance, turned
and commenced to throw rocks
1 when tho officer tired several
J shots, one taking effect in the
leg.
