M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-04-13


TIMBER can be made ponthe ground
for 81 per NJ, Of oak and poplar.
RED Back can be made for $3.50
per Nj, OF best quality, and all bulld>
lngs should be OF this material. Hous.
es Tor workmen can be built, four tene>
ments in block, Tor $1,000 per block,
which would rent Tor $50 per mum,
per tenement.
LIME Stone is in abundance for the
best quality, and lime can be made for
10 cents per bushei.
FIEE Back OF two qualities can be
made. Those made OF clay would
cost So per Nj those made OF whet
stone, SIS per NJ. This is a business
which may be carried or very exten.
slyely, and with large profit Fire
BRICK, OF good quality, aIe now all
made in Bolivar, about Gu miles east
OF Pittsburgh; and are transported from
there through Ohio aud Kentucky, and
supply most OF the furnaces and iron
WORKS ol that part OF the West
MANUFACTURE OF IRON.
The richness OF the ores, requiring
only q tous to make ton OF pig, and
the putty oil the coal, will produce
pig iron OF the best qualIty,lo 81 per
ton; second quality, Sl3 per ton. A
ready market is alwas found at Ports
mouth, on the OHIO River, or at differ
ent places OH the lake, but TO give full
detail OF the manufacture OF iron it
would be necessary to have complete
drawings and specifications made.
In oIder to make the coal fields avail
able the Scloto and Hooking Valley
Railroad must be fnished as far as
Strallsvllle.
From what we saw and could learn,
we think that the two Railroads, San
duSky, Mansfield and Newark, and
Scloto and Hooking VaIley,) connect.
ing Lake Erie at Sandusky, with the
ONO River at Portsmouth, must be
good pay ing roads, they run through so
rich a country in mineral and agrlcul.
lural wealth. These two roads cross
several others running East and West
winch are particularly mentioned in
the report oT Mr.. Lincoln, aud are the
only ones running north aud south in
that part ol the Sta'e. The great amour,
ot coal which will be transported over
lie Sciolo aud Hooking Valley Rail,
road, as soon as 1t is completed, will
Je sure business Tor every day. The
parties who own the mineral lands
should be the principal proprielors OF
Tie roads, and thereby control the trans.
ponallon ol Goals. We think that a
Company vino may own these coal
fields, and who can control the trans.
portatIon, cannot Iail 10 make it very
valuable plopeltl, the quality OF these
Goals being such as would always COM
mand a ready sale, aud al a higher
price than any other coal brings. Jno.
Il. Robinson, Esq, Superintendent Of
the Sandusky, Mapsield anu Newark
Railroad, informed us that he could not
agree to freight over that road more
tnan 1900, ,OUO tons yearly, with sim
gle track, aud do The ordinary and reg
har business OF the road. This amount
would supply the demand but short
time; Ior the increase OF the consump.
uOn OF coal tor railroads, STEAMSHIPS
navigation, various manufacturing pur-
pose, aud house uses, is SO great that a
uoubIe track would soon be needed -
England, Ireland, Scotland aud Wales
contain ii ,S59 square miles oi Goa
bands; ONO contains 1900 square
miles. The Camel Coai OF the Tun.
mel Tract, before referred to, is super.
lor TO the English Camel usually ship
ped to this country; and the Bltumin
Gus Coal oil SlrItsvlle is equal to the
Splint Coal oil Scotland, or to the Goa
oil England, both OF which are uset
now IN the manufacture OF pig metal
| / he coal trade OF Great Britain il
1858 was as iollows:-
Capital invested, s50,OO0,OOO.
Annual produttlon,37 ,OOO,OOU tons
| Value at pits mouth, 500, 100000
Value at place oil conSumptIon,SlOO
coo, 600.
London alone consumed 5000, ,OOI
tons.
In 1850, $50, ,439 tons OF coal wei,
shipped to TINS country from England
and the British Provinces; in 1853
23l ,50S tons; in 1904 the demand coplt
not be supplied. Manufacturing ha
made this great demand Tor bitumluou
coal; railroads, steam engines and Steaa
vessels, will rapidly increase the enor
nous consumption.
Iron Trade Of the United Kingdom
Total Exports from the United
Kingdom in lS52:-
| Tons.
Pig iron, 24O,49l
Bars and Rails, 5iS,996
| Rods, 1856
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