Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee, Appointed to Visit the Line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, West of Dam No. 6The Lonaconing mine has a vein of fourteen feet is a beautiful I y planed mine, with a railway to its several chambers, in distance exceeding one mile. At the Lonaconing is also to be found iron ore of superior quality. These works have been erected at a cost of 311300, 000, and are under the care of Mr. Graham, a scientific gentleman, who has been very successful ln his operations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.