Excerpt from Resources of South-West Virginia Showing the Mineral Deposits of Iron, Coal, Zinc, Copper and Lead: Also, the Staples of the Various Counties, Methods of Transportation, Access, Etc
IT is hoped by the writer that the matter contained in this book will be a sufficient apology for its appearance. Not that he is, by this means, trying to forestall criticism upon the manner in which the subjects are handled. N O doubt a much more beautiful structure could be built of the same materials by more skillful hands, but now is the time when the general public desire to be informed about these most lavish and bountiful resources of this section of Virginia; and if the more competent heads and hands will not under take a work which, if even tolerably well done, would be alike gratefully received by a progressive public and a needy State, why some one must do it who may barely have nothing more than a love of his country to urge him to the task.
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