A hand book of Virginia . Tazewell county in 1883 andWise county in 1891, again restored Virginia to importance as acoal producer. The Virginia areas which have produced or are producingcoal are as follows: I.—The coal deposits of the Richmond Coal Basin, which coversparts of the following five-counties: Henrico, Chesterfield, Pow-hatan, Goochland, and Amelia. This is the only area of free-burning coal in the eastern portion of the United States that islocated immediately adjacent to tidewater. It contains large re-serves of coal and has not received in recent years the attentionwhich it merit
A hand book of Virginia . Tazewell county in 1883 andWise county in 1891, again restored Virginia to importance as acoal producer. The Virginia areas which have produced or are producingcoal are as follows: I.—The coal deposits of the Richmond Coal Basin, which coversparts of the following five-counties: Henrico, Chesterfield, Pow-hatan, Goochland, and Amelia. This is the only area of free-burning coal in the eastern portion of the United States that islocated immediately adjacent to tidewater. It contains large re-serves of coal and has not received in recent years the attentionwhich it merits. It will probably become an important producerin the near future, since development work is now well underway in portions of the area. II.—The coal deposits of the Mountain province, which in-clude a number of separate areas extending across the State ina southwesterly direction from Frederick county on the north tothe Tennessee boundary on the south. These are: (1) The Frederick County Area. Including the Mountain. 53 Falls district in the southwestern portion of the county and nearthe West Virginia line. (2) The Augusta County Area. Includes the North Riverdistrict in the northwest corner of Augusta county and the con-tiguous part of Rockingham county. (3) The Botetourt County Area. Includes the southwest cornerof Botetourt county. (4) The Montgomery-Pulaski Counties Area. Includes Priceand Brush mountains in Montgomery county, and Cloyd andLittle Walker mountains in Pulaski county. (5) The Bland-Wythe Counties Area. Includes a small area inthe southern part of Bland county and in the northern part ofWythe county. (6) The Southwest Virginia Area. Forms the southeasternportion of the Kanawha basin, and comprises the Pocahontasor Flat-Top and the Big Stone Gap coal fields of the followingcounties: Tazewell, Russell, Scott, Dickenson, Buchanan, Wise,and Lee. Of these, Wise and Tazewell counties are the most im-portant producers at present. It is due to the southwest Virgin
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