Show 0 better betler COAL the pleasant valley coal has kept its place in the market although there have been two or three objections to it these thesa are its softness causing it to make much slack and a tendency to burn too rapidly and accumulate a great deal of boot soot the experienced miners minera tay esy this thib is be cause tho the coal is in a state of decay orin or in their language languages it la Is dead when whon mountains were thrown up it lett iett some bome parts of the cal oal oai more exposed than others and broke the veina veins in two in many places where thebe these veins have not been protected by en an immense a amount of earth they have lost their original virtue and become soft boft had and full of slips or brevic crevices ea where the coal 66 crops or protrudes protrude out cut of the side of the mountain it is of little value in driving what la is called no 0 o 1 tunnel a was tras struck this is a place where tho the earth by some same great convulsion has slipped ut up or down breaking the veins of coal slate rock mineral etc into and moving them from a few inches to hundreds of feat it is no trouble troubie e for the experienced miner to tell whether the coal has gone up or down when this fault was discovered mcwilliams Williams Mr operator of the mines said bald the coal was down but many others said it wagn p ho he drilled do domi wn the distance of about forty feet and and struck coa coal which pnovel proved to be of the same thich thansis th anees Anses us as tho the vein in nol ko noi 1 now v ho devised a echeme scheme to go down the canyon about one fourt fourth h of 0 a mile and drive a tunnel on a vein of coal about 18 inches thick which lower in the formation when this tunnel would strike the fault it would be in the vicinity of the vein 91 dropped down downs from no nol noi I 1 in this scheme mr williams was vigorously opp opposed bEed but being a man fall ef ambition ambitions energy and confidence he pushed the work ahead day and night for upwards of a year at ai nis his own expense wi with h the understanding that he should be repaid if it proved a sue suc ces cess 9 while the work was ja in operation tio tioma mr long an expert espert of the D R G Q B R 11 li was sent to examine it and he told mr williams that he would not strike the coal that such a project was wan the height of folly but this did not daunt tho the little min mn as aa the miners term him and he ha pushed the work for ward with extreme energy through many difficulties difficult les till the night shift brought him the glad tidings a fortnight ago that a vein of coal 10 feet thick lay lav before thommy thorny this coal Is of superior quality Is hard beav heavy V and free from dirt it la is thought to be ba as much better batter for all purposes than the present coal as a gab gan light Is better than a candle it has been better protected by the earth and should be superior in every ri le respect preparations are ore now being mado made to put this coal in the market as to boon ga aa poul possible ble bie it will ili ill be bome bame time bedore before this can be done but we may look for superior coal in the near future C H BLISS |