Coal Mines in the vicinity of Richmond, Va. 13 
* James River sells for a less price than that on the south side, be- 
ing considered net as 
ie Some four or five dite north: of these mines, lie those 
called the Deep Run pits, worked by John Barr, who at present 
. employs some forty hands, and raises some two hundred and fift ty 
. thousand bushels of coal; he uses steam power. This coal is 
fs of fair quality, as is alc that from Burton’s pits, now mined 
by Grubs & Co., who will probably raise about the same quan- 
tity as Barr, and employ as many hands. The coal from these 
a, mines: is transported to,Richmond by the Fredericksburg and 
: Richmond Railroad Company, a branch of their road having 
, been extended to the pits. The charge for coal on this road is 
_ four cents per bushel from the mines to Richmond. The charge 
for boating coal down the James River canal, including tolls, is 
about three cents from the mines,—that on cts passing the coal 
railroad in Chesterfield from the mines, to tide water, is five and 
‘ a half cents ;—for taking it from this road, at its junction with 
j the Petersburg and Richmond railroad, two cents per bushel 
_ to Richmond,—to Petersburg four cents, including yardage at 
rs either place ; and coal going by this road, to either Petersburg or 
R ond, is entitled to half a cent per bushel deduction from 
‘main coal road charge. The charge for transporting from the 
s on the south: s side of Chesterfield County to Petersburg, is 
to > branch, | at some featiine: day, from the main coal road to 
i out five miles below the pro Bees ios 
le. 
for transport coal on ‘dis Festa per Pattond is unusually 
high, but will soon be reduced. It being the first so of the 
kind in Virginia, it was deemed prudent to make the transporta- 
tion high, a dividend of six per cent. per annum, payable semi- 
~ annually being authorized in the charter; the surplus raised from 
a thesfive and a half cents per bushel, being pledged to the refund- 
an ing of the capital een; this application has been oe 
iii There is found in connection with the coal at Sallee’s and Burfoot’s pits i in 
= Chesterfield, and on the north side of James river at the mines generally, a sub- 
5 stance former a. called dead ner oy omens natural coke, that has lately been 
eleven cents per bushel, by waggons. It is in contempla~ _ 
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