The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1855-04-27
From the Hokeville Express.
Answer toe E" StOckhOlder."
LINcoLNToN, n. c., April 6


AZ, EDITOR Should no one more competent
Undertake TO answer the inquiries OF Stock
bn9der." which appeared in your last paper,
nIease insert the following:
The territory OF "Old Lincoln" embraces
CASTOR, Ca;nwba, a portion Of Cleareand. and
he present county Of Lincoln. Lncoluton occu-
MES the centre Of The old county.
The first inquiry is as to The iron works in said
county. To this reply that there are, within
said boundary, fourteen Bloomeries or FORCES,
four smelling Furnaces, three Foundries, two
Rolling Mills, and Nail Factory, most of
ubich are now in successful operation.
The Iron ore beds are inexhaustible extending
n distance Of fifty miles, from the South. beast
rer Of cleveland to the Northwest corner OF Ca
,awba county, passing near the town Of Lincoln
ton The veins Of Iron are generally from one
to ten feet in width; and the depth Of any one Of
Them has never been ascerlaned. The ores are
various, including several species, and among
them Magnetic, Oxide, CoIumnar, and Red ard
Brown Hemarite. For full description. refer
YOUR correspondent to Prof. OImsted's second &C.
o!ogicaI report made in 1925, alter an examina-
ton of the Graham ore. beds.
Though the Iron ore in this belt is nexhausti-
be- yet il abOunds in many other valuable mine
rails embracing gold, silver, lead. copper, Pumba-
go manganese limestone, marble Of various col
ors, and cobalt; and besides these there por-
ceiain clay, crystazcd sand stone, &C., &c.
The Iron ore and Gold have been worked TO
considerable extent; and 1t is upon this belt that
The Hon. G. c. Bronson, Con-. Stockton and 9th
now operating extensively.
There is an abundance 0! lime stone and mar
bic, of which the block sent by Lincoln county
to the Washington monument, is a sprcim"n.
There within the bounds of Old Lincoln"
about one hundred FIGURING Mills, three Paper
Mills, and eight Cotton Factories, which annually
ship the greater portion OF their MANUFACTURES To
the northern market by the way of Charleston
5. C.. Three Cotton Factories and two Paper
Mills are in the vicinity Of the town of Lin
colnton. In the town of Lncolnton two
large Steam TannPries, capable of manufacturing
$4,000 worth Of Leather annually, made chiefly
from Spanish hides; and besides these larger
ADJUSTMENTS, there are great many smaller en-
trrp:ises, IA almost every department OF mechan-
ism.
The water power for driving all kinds of
rhncry is very abundant and constant, not sub
i"ct TO stOppage by anything but occasional
frc>hel. The soil is not Cxcrllcd by any part of
the State, producing grain of all kinds, cotton, to-
bacco, and fruits aud vegetables in great album
dance: wheat, from thirty to forty bushels per
acre; corn from forty 10 SKY bushels; COTTON
frcm eight hundred 10 n thousand pounds; and
tobacco well anywhere.
Clover, herds grass, orchard grass, timothy and
Bluegrass. which is the natural production OF the
suii. may be easily produced.
The climate is one of The most saluhr"us in lie
world; NJ" purer water can be found on the
face Of the earth; and the country abounds
with mineral springs not surpassed BY the ccle-
b: lied White Sulphur in Virginia.
10 cnnn"ctnn with the Iron works. d" Stock
h..ier" desires to be informed of the I" bearing
The distance from the cOntcmPlitcd route from
Your place "a Charlotte"
The distance from Charlotte to Lincuntnn in
a direct line, is rhlrty-two miles, BY the Plank
R'rd 1t is thirty -four passing wuh,n miles of
Grthams forg" and furnace; directly bS Bre-
wards furnace; within TWO miles at his f"rg" !;
~Ihn one mile uf J .hnsnn's forgr; four from his
furnace and within four miles 81 the High Shoals.
Tn So works capable OF producing any amount
"l pig metal that may lie required and with Rail
Road facilities any demand, how ever great, wii
be- promptly supplied.
Any furrh~r lmlnrmnton desired by "Stock-
hid' r." or any other inquirer will h" ch""riiIIIy
gwen. "OLD LINCOLN."
WHY THE Romans WENT TO BED EARLY.-Tn
one OF the late London papers we find the follow
l"g reason why, by DE Quincy: {" They went to
bed early in those ages, simply because their
Thy mother earth could not afford them canlles.
She good old lady. good young lady (lor &C.
h"r progress which corresponds to gray hairs, or
I" infancy, or to a CERTAIN age she. good lady.
would have shudd"rrd to hear any Of her nations
uquirng for candles. Candles, indeed - she
would have said, who ever heard of such a
thIng and with so much excellent daylight run
nlng TO waste as | have provided gratis What
will The wretches want nex?' The Romans.
] therefore, who saw joke sitting around n
table in The dark, went off TO bed the darkness
. hon, IL L. ID
us himself obliged 10 trundle in The dusk.
IarquiniuS may have been a very superb fellow.
but doubt whether he a farthng rush
light. And though il may be thought that plots
and conspirlrOrs would flourish in such city Of
darkness it Is to he considered that the conspira
tors themselves had more candles than honest
men /; both parties were in the dark"
Among the curioses at the Fair, Washington
City, are the following: Two bricks from Egyrt
made of black loan mixed with straw and baked
III the sun. One is modern, picked I'd on The