 Liberty; also one some 2^ miles west of New London. Continuing in the same direction the bed is seen at the meadows of Goose Creek, where it has been quarried to some extent. Parallel ranges of soapstone appear near the Pigg River in Franklin County....  Report of the United States National Museum ... - Seite 357von United States National Museum - 1889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Perkins Merrill - 1889 - 416 Seiten
...slope of Grassy TTill. The material from near Franklin Court-House is stated to be the best of auy of the above. About 30 miles southwest from Richmond,...is now in the market. Specimens of the stone in the Musenm collection are by no means pure talc, but carry abundant long brownish fibers of some amphibolic... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1889 - 908 Seiten
...Court-Houso is stated to be the best of any of the above. About 30 miles southwest from Richmond, at Chnla, in Amelia County, there are outcrops of soap-stone said to be of flue quality, and which in former times were quite extensively operated by the Indians. They have been... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1901 - 884 Seiten
...quarried to some extent. Parallel ranges of soapstone appear near the Pigg River in Franklin County. About 30 miles southwest from Richmond, at Chula,...County, there are outcrops of soapstone said to be of tine quality, and which in former times were quite extensively operated by the Indians. They have been... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - 1891 - 506 Seiten
...material from near Franklin Court-house is stated to be the best of any of the above. About thirty miles southwest from Richmond, at Chula, in Amelia...material is now in the market. Specimens of the stone examined by the writer are by no means pure talc, but carry abundant long brownish fibers of some amphibolic... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - 1891 - 502 Seiten
...from Richmond, at Chula, * Geology of Vermont, Vol. n., p. 783-91. f Geology of the Virginias, p. 79. in Amelia County, there are outcrops of soapstone...material is now in the market. Specimens of the stone examined by the writer are by no means pure talc, but carry abundant long brownish fibers of some amphibolic... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1901 - 874 Seiten
...Parallel ranges of soapstone appear near the Pigg River in Franklin County. About 30 miles southwest froui Richmond, at Chula, in Amelia County, there are outcrops of soapstone said to be of tine quality, and which in former times were quite extensively operated by the Indians. They have been... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - 1904 - 522 Seiten
...quarried to some extent. Parallel ranges of soapstone appear near the Pigg River in Franklin County. About 30 miles southwest from Richmond, at Chula,...reopened within a few years and the material is now on the market. North Carolina contains, in addition to an abundance of the finest grades of talc and... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - 1910 - 530 Seiten
...Chula, in Amelia County, there are outcrops of soapstone said to be of fine quality, and in former times quite extensively operated by the Indians. They have...reopened within a few years and the material is now on the market. North Carolina contains, in addition to an abundance of the finest grades of talc and... | |
 | 1889 - 606 Seiten
...some extent. Parallel ranges of soapstone appear near the Pigg river in Fra'nklin county. About thirty miles southwest from Richmond, at Chula, in Amelia...reopened within a few years and the material is now on the market. North Carolina contains an abundance of the finest grades of talc and steatite, and... | |
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