Lesley.] 134 [June, 
of the Six-foot bed, containing the gross amount of. ..... .10,500,000 tons, 
and by tresseling May’s and Brown’s creeks at their 
upper parts where the bed is near their water level, mining 
might be carried forward into the Ramshérger and Krieger 
avea, andiadd.. 7.03.6... Bec Deri Ge alse tree ne ge - 1,500,000 tons, 
MU DEIN A res ds es eh ey eo 12,000,000 tons, 
commanded by this gangway. 
The gangway at the end of Hyatt’s hill, would command 2,250,000 tons, 
The gangway at the end of Youngkin’s hill would com- 
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The amount of coal to be reached in the easiest possible way, and con- 
centrated at one coal depot at the mouth of Brown’s ereek, is therefore 
evidently larger than the necessities of the largest collieries for an entire 
generation. 
When the main gangways become inconveniently long, their air-ways 
along the outcrop will afford the most convenient outlets for slack and 
waste ; and new gangways can enter any where, because the drainage of 
the mine will be perfect. 
A fine colliery can also be established at the forks of Minder’s Creek, 
a mile and a half above its junction with the North fork. Here the Six 
Foot bed strikes the water level of the run; gangways may be driven in 
horizontally west, northwest, north, northeast, and east, commanding an 
entire square mile of coal lands, or six million tons of coal. The tramroad 
for such a colliery will be, say 14 miles long, with a grade of 10, or be- 
tween 90 and 100 feet to the mile, which may be lessened by judicious 
arrangements. This point has another advantage : it will permit alJ the 
Sander’s Hill coal to come out, down grade. I never saw a more beauti- 
ful situation for a first class colliery on bituminous coal. Nor do I know 
of a better coal on which to establish a great coke trade. 
The Turkey-foot is likely to become a second Johnstown, in the way 
of iron works, occupying precisely the same position, geographical and 
geological, upon the Baltimore and Pittsburgh through railway line, which 
Johnstown occupies on the Philadelphia and Pittsburg through railway 
line, as the map on page 3 will show; and just as Blairsville and Con- 
nellsville occupy precisely analogous situations, geological and geograph- 
ical, to each other. At Ursina, the coal beds, iron ores, limestones- 
oceur in the hills in the same way that they do at Johnstown; the 
hills are of the same sbape; and the minerals lie at the same angles 
with the horizon, and at similar heights above water level. At 
both places the Pittsburgh and Green county coal beds are absent, swept 
from the tops of the highest hills. At both places the blue carbonate 
iron ore of No. XI. underlies the conglomerate on the flank of the moun- 
tain near the top. And as Johnstown gets brown hematite ores from the 
limestone valleys of the Juniata, and fossil ore from Frankstown, and 
Lake Superior ore from Cleveland, to mix with the ores under the coal 
beds in its hills, so Ursina can get fossil ore and brown hematite from 
