Excerpt from The Oil-Dorado of West Virginia: A Full Description of the Great Mineral Resources of West Virginia, the Kanawha Valley, and the Country Between the Ohio, the Hughes, and the Kanawha River
The Kanawha Valley alone contains inexhaustible mineral resources, large beds of anthracite being found beyond the great valley, while an inexhaustible supply of coal exists on the Kanawha and its tributaries. A great variety of mineral springs, sulphur, warm and chalybeate, are found in the valley district. Copious salt springs abound at the Kanawha and in the southwestern counties, while, now, Petroleum has been discovered at hundreds of points in West Virginia between the celebrated oil wells in Pennsylvania and those of Cumberland in Kentucky.
The deposit of bituminous, splint and cannel coal in this part of the State is also truly astonishing. All the high hills are full of it, some of them containing half a dozen seams, varying from four to as high as fifteen feet in thickness. Passing the valuable coal mines of Mason County, and its reputed oil districts, we ascend the Great Kanawha to the first high range bordeing the Pocotalico. It is understood that this range, consisting of 3,000 or 4,000 acres, has recently been purchased by a Mr. H. F. Averill, for parties in New York city, and that it will be developed at once, Prof. F. L. Vinton, of Columbia college, having been there for nearly three weeks, making a thorough examination of it for that purpose. This point is but thirty-eight miles up the Kanawha from the Ohio River, and is accessible by steamboats and barges at all seasons of the year. Mr. Alfred Edwards of New York has recently commenced to develope coal property on Cabin Creek, some twenty miles above Charleston, and eighty miles from the mouth of the Kanawha, and the Winefred Coal Company, on Fields Creek, near by, are now over two hundred yards into the main hill.
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