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Show COAL IN SAN PETE. The S. V, V. Itoad Makes a Btf Strike in the Mines at Wales. The, No phi fchsi'jn snys : It has been re-ir! re-ir! d that the San Pole valley hns i truck it rich. It is said that a vein of coal has been discovered at the Wales mines which "knocks the socks off" any yet heard from, t is of the richest quality and resrmbles that, which has been mined at that place for some time, except it is free from the rocks and other foreign substunces which makes the other coal so disagreeable to use. The road will work up a large demand for this new fuel and expects to come out al o. k. in the end. It is to be hoped that everything will go all right. It has been supposed for some time that the deeper the miuers would goat the mines in Wale, San Pate county, the better the eoal would be. This has proven to be the ease as a ten foot vein of the linest eoal has just been discovered. The different strata of this useful article of fuel are fouud to be arranged as follows: The first is about one foot in thickness and is composed of rock and eual about equally mixed. The next layer is somewhat thicker and the. material here found contains less rock, The third stratum is the ona which has been furnish-ing furnish-ing all I lie coal which has been taken from the mine, and is about three feet through. Our readers kuow the kintl of fuel this coal makes. The ten foot vein of which we have spoken comes next and it produces a splendid splen-did quality of bituminous coal. |