The uplift [serial] . 2 x. <St o Mines whose coal helpedmelt bullet lead and castcannon for Confederatearmies during the Civilwar and that was pickedup from surface outcrop-ping by Negro slaves be-fore the American revo-lution will see the begin-ning of their largest-scaledevelopment this week asthe Raleigh Mining corpo-ration begins work in theDeep River field on Wed-nesday . The field, lying on bothsides of Deep River whichtwists its way through thecorners of Lee, Moore andChatham counties, has inrecent months been prov-en to have almost twice thereserves of coal that pre-vious estimates
The uplift [serial] . 2 x. <St o Mines whose coal helpedmelt bullet lead and castcannon for Confederatearmies during the Civilwar and that was pickedup from surface outcrop-ping by Negro slaves be-fore the American revo-lution will see the begin-ning of their largest-scaledevelopment this week asthe Raleigh Mining corpo-ration begins work in theDeep River field on Wed-nesday . The field, lying on bothsides of Deep River whichtwists its way through thecorners of Lee, Moore andChatham counties, has inrecent months been prov-en to have almost twice thereserves of coal that pre-vious estimates report made in 1943 bythe H. A. Brassert com-pany and C. C. Morfit coalconsultant engineers ofNew York showed an in-dicated reserve tonnage of46,000,000 tons. This quant-ity, never dreamed of bythe slaves who picked upcoal outcroppings and haul-ed it in carts to Hillsboro,Durham and Raleigh forblacksmiths to use a cen-tury and half ago, may nowbe approximately doubled,according to recent sur-veys. 12 THE UPLIFT
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