Raleigh, May 24—Representative Hammer is much encouraged with reports that come of the progress of survey and plans for mapping of coal fields of North Carolina in countless comprising the Deep River basin, and keeps in touch with Dr. M.R. Campbell, head of the survey section of the Bureau of Mines. K.K. Kimball, an expert of the bureau, is now in the Deep River section at work in Moore, Lee and Chatham counties. Dr. Campbell, who recently visited the section, says he was surprised at the quantity and quality of coal in the Cumnock mines. He is planning to make a return visit and hopes to be able to go in June.
At old Farmville village, in Chatham county across the river from Cumnock, the Carolina Coal Company has coal at the surface, the supply being close to the top of the ground at the Cumnock mine, while there is said to be a large supply at the Egypt mine. The plan is to have the whole coal region in the state mapped, there being no map at the present time.
In this matter Representative Hammer has just received a letter from F.P. Covington of Mt. Gilead, secretary of chamber of commerce at that place, which sets out that there is coal in Richmond and Montgomery counties, which have not heretofore been heard from. Mr. Covington writes that there is a vein 12 feet thick with outcroppings for several miles in both Richmond and Montgomery counties, that wells drilled for water show that over a considerable territory there is coal in abundance., The claim is that this is an extension of the Deep River vein, and it will be investigated.
From the front page of The Harnett County News, Lillington, N.C., May 25, 1922. The photo is from NCpedia, www.ncpedia.org/coal.
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