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t point. I have ever believed it would be of inestimable value to the Southern Confederacy. It should not be a road only of transportation across the States, but located with an eye to the immense mineral wealth deposited in the valley of Dan river and Town Fork. Here, we have inexhaustible beds of coal, iron are, marble, white, blue, and gray limestone, serpentine and porcelain clay, &c. Besides, the Buffalo Wallow, three miles south of Germantown, in Stokes county, derived its naalt water. With all these things before us, it does seem that thirty minutes time would be but a bubble in the Southern Confederacy in comparison to the great wealth it will develops to the States. Do not these things at least entitle the Dan River Coalfield Railroad to a reasonable inspection before the final connexion is ordered? The road is willing to submit its minerals and prospects to the best geologists South, and abide their decision for the general good of all. We hope