Resources of south-west Virginia, showing the mineral deposits of iron, coal, zinc, copper and lead . h adequatemeans of transportation, will develop mines of lasting andpermanent value, there can be no doubt; and that this countywill form one of the most considerable factors in the solutionof the problem of the States future prosperity, is beyond aquestion. It is able, by means of its vast hidden wealth, tobring lines of railway through the county, and will inevitablyincrease the tax-paying power of its own and surroundingcommunities to so great a degree as to render it a fit com-parison to s
Resources of south-west Virginia, showing the mineral deposits of iron, coal, zinc, copper and lead . h adequatemeans of transportation, will develop mines of lasting andpermanent value, there can be no doubt; and that this countywill form one of the most considerable factors in the solutionof the problem of the States future prosperity, is beyond aquestion. It is able, by means of its vast hidden wealth, tobring lines of railway through the county, and will inevitablyincrease the tax-paying power of its own and surroundingcommunities to so great a degree as to render it a fit com-parison to say, that that capacity will have improved a thou-sand fold. HOW BOUNDED. Carroll is separated from Wythe and Pulaski on the northby the Iron Mountain range, locally termed here the PoplarCamp Mountains; northeast by Floyd County; southeastand southward it is divided from the county of Patrick bythe main Blue Kidge; and touches the North Carolina it is bounded by Grayson County. 270 CAEEOLL COUUTY. 53 S> © 3 on or JFoplar Camp Mtn. or Copper Lode HillsvilUPeaeh Bottom Copper Io3e. CARROLL CO.—GEOLOGICAL. 271 HOW WATERED. Carroll is watered by New Kiver and some of its considera-ble tributaries, Big and Little Reed Island Creeks and theirhead-waters, Poplar Camp Creek, Crooked Creek, ChestnutCreek, and some minor streams. All of these being bold andregular in their flow throughout the year, give to the countya name for being well watered. GEOLOGICAL. The geological features of the county are nearly identicalwith those of Floyd and Grayson, except that Grayson hassuch an immense quantity of granite, which neither Carrollnor Floyd seem to have. The geology may, then, be said tobe comprised between the Laurentian gneissoid series, nearthe heart of the Blue Ridge, and the Huronian, dip of the rocks has that general appearance of beingmonoclinal southwardly, or rather southeastwardly, commonto most of the rocks of this region; but in places there were
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