Show BLACK ROCKS A A story of tile early day days of the cm nelis ville coal ICe Ite clon A writer in forest and nud stream that elins elias blank one of tho the early fa 6 tiers of what is now tho great aei ville coal region in western pennsylvania was among the first americana americans to burn foft coal how the thing caino about ia is thus thins described oto ore night mr blank was aroused ay I 1 a rapping at ot bis his door opening it ho lie admitted a famous indian igner flat er lea lewis 13 and a companion compau lou gates commonly known as long arms u friend lewis eaid said blank where e have theo tho and our friend been and v abere bound 1 I want to get out of here at once said and long arms arius is cf the same some opinion this bewitched and arms and I 1 are nearly scared to death friend lewis thee must not tell such stories to roc me enid said old elias thee knows I 1 am thy friend aud I 1 have saved thee when a price was on an thy bead I 1 know thou thon art a man of courage aud and friend jonathan gatan hom hoin some call long anna fears nothing on cn earth and im fearful nothing anywhere auy alere else and yet thoa bellest me that ho and theo thee are scared even almost unto death shame on theo thee so to dellaro before thy friend who loves yo ye both as he be were thy father I 1 no no elias eling faid dropping P ing into the quaker speech 1 I tell thee no lie we are scared yesterday afternoon wo were in hiding a mile from duill dunkard ard creek and arid in the tho evening we built a fire under tho the bank very carefully and we ve got some black rocks to prop up a little kettle and put them beside abeare the fire rather than iu in it and the black rocks took firo and burned fiercely with a filthy 9 smoke moke and a and longares Lon gArma gArms said the devil would com come e it if we staid and wo we grabbed our dettlo and poured out the water and made rando our ou curvay way rvay here leaving the black rocks to burn elias blank was vas much interested he ile did not tell Wh etzelt what the black rocks were but lie found out exactly where the men hud had made their fire and when they went away he gave them each a new ezra eagle engle rifle a knife aud and a tomahawk with four pounds of powder and arid n supply of lead then bo be hunted up their camping ift gr ground found the blade black rocks and opened j coal bank into one of the river 1 hills bills and this coal bank is still in existence in a 13 12 foot coal coat that is absolutely free from elate slate and burna burns like pitch |