Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-10
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States Tor the tanning OF Morocco leather ana the
lighter skins.
But when tbe railroads have so cheapened fuel
that Nashville become, as it ought to be,
great manufacturing city, many articles now sent
off will meet market at home
Although we cannot speak definitely yet regard
ing the proximity OF salt it would be an omission
not to mention that, judging from bOTIngs which
have been made in adjoining counties, as Hender-
son and N uhlenburg which have reached brine. as
well from the numerous ticks (pldces resorted to
by cattle for their saline deposs) issuing from the
ground, il is rendered not improbable that by Dor
ing a sufficient depth salt might be manufactured
| from this water.
Another item worthy of mention is the excel
! lent sandstone, readily worked for building
materials, which you could send along the various
lines Of railroad into portins of Indiana and Illinois,
almost unsuPpied with rocks. There are alsosep-
taria apparently somewhat abundant, which, cal
cined, would probably furnish good hydraulic c.
ment.
There yet remain to be considered the two most
important subjects of all, Iron and Coal, in their
commercial relations.
Here under the head OF iron the report fur
nishes analysis of the ores found &C., which
omit. These ores contain ALA per cent. and &C.
81 per cent. of iron.
VI. COAL TRADE.
Under this head we may examine, first, the IA
! cilities you have for mining and shipping this in
large quantities. then the quality of the COAL and
! lastly the chief sources of consumption.
The aggregate thickness of the coal seams on the
| company's lands being, as already mentioned, at
| least % feet, wherever it extends of a uniform
! thickness, under the 90, 900 acres owned by the
company, which is the in the high land, there
would be over one million of cubic feet, or about
the same number of bushels, of coal (which is more
than 40 900 tOns,) under every such acre OF land.
The lowest price paid for coal, in Nashville, is
! about 81 rs per ton, and it IL often double that
price, Reduce the price to 81 so per ton, or about
ten per bushel and you still have gross re-
ctipt Of 800, 900 for each OF coal mined, Of
| which, at a low estimate, more than one-halt would
be net profit, as the actual labor of getting out is
| now only one cent per bushel, and the total cost
including transit some eighty miles per railroad,
| about four cents more; making each acre OF land
thus underlad, when worked out, equal to over
$50 600. In these calculations, 1t is true many OF
the data somewhat uncertain; yet the assump-
tions are placed so much lower than appearances
would to justify that the differences drawn are
comparatively safe.
Even under the former imperfect management
| individuals on your lands have been making fair
profit by hauling coal several miles, and selling
! for five cents. When wagOned to HOpkinsvllle,
some twenty-five miles, it usually sells for fifteen
cents per bushel
From the fact hat most of your purchase In
cludes seams which lie above the railrord, you
easily your coal cars on inclined plains TO the
! railroad station, then to be readily unoaded into
! the large cars beneath. Another most important
! point is, that your adits always be made SELF
! draining, without the expense OF pumping.
As the mining for many years, will consist only
| of drifting into the hill Sides without any necessity
of sinking shafts, the expense and danger of pro-
! viding agaiuJ bad ventilation is unnecessary.
The following extract from the same valuable
work of which have already avalled ourselves,
will show that these dangers are of great impOr-
! lance, at least in Great Britain: "1he PeriLS Of
! HjHia0 az EnqLaHd.-A petition has been ad-
dressed co the House of Commons from the 'pitmen,
| or miners, working in the cOliirTies of Durham and
Northumberland. Upwards Of 5000 OF these poor
people subscribed their names or their marks TO es
| tablish it's character. About thousand per-
sons it is said, ARE killed annually in the mines
of this country The London times adds: "A good
deal used to be said, and with great reason, about
the terrible mortality in squalrons on the Airi-
can station 'One year aud a halt destroys
motives in our coal mines than we're destroyed in
twenty-one years by the climate of Africa and the
| casualties of sea-service.'"
These accidents are chiefly due to the difficulties
| encountered by deep mining-a necessity which
will probably rise in this country tor many CEN
| turtles.
One great advantage, which your coal possesses,
is that it can be used in hUt-bast furnaces without
| the necessity Of cooking.
| The camel coal passing into bituminOus slate,
which occurs in the upper part Of the am as mem
! toned in Secuo H., when speaking of the "Bbo"
mine, appears to belong 20 the series ''C' of Tay-
| lor, with reference TO which he says: "Iu regard
10 the manufacture of Illuminating gas the type of
perfection in the series &C" is the Scotch camel"
"With this class would place the
camel Goals of Kentucky Indians, illinois, and
| Missouri"
Time has not permitted US to make a thorou gh
chemical analysis of your camel coal and bitumn-
| Gus slate but to the eye some specimens have pre-
csey the character of the Breckenridge coal US d
extensively at the CloverpOrt Mandatory, for al
fording certain oils, bnzole, paratine etc. the biz
I H. - la fk he EfaF
Geologist of KY, found by analysis that this coal
] contained "about sixty two per cent OF volatile
I combustibie matter, and about twenty-eight per
cent of fixed carbon, an amount of volatile matter
exceeding that of the "HillsbOrO coal in Nova SEQ
/ tia or the Cuba asphaltum," aud reaching within
! fraction of a per cent. the yield of the "Boghead
coal in Scotland, hitherto considered the most pro-
! ductive in oily aud waxy products" The amount
! obtained in his laboratory was at the rate Of 100
! gallons of oil to the ton e 900 pouBds) of coal.
| Your camel coai-seAms being among the lowest
workable veins OF this coal basin, which is also the
/ case with the Breckenridge coal, and being only
distant from these beds some 6ity-hve SIXTY miles
/ in an air line, and being similar in character, all
this renders il not improbable that your camel coal
will afford similar products, perhaps in equal guam
/ titles.
| On this subject the New York Journal Of CON-
merce says: "At Cioverport, KY, on the Ohio Fiv-
err are extensive works, running - retOrts,
night and day. consuming from TO 10 tons of coal
! every "a hours and producing 100 lions OF crude
| oil-Re-disred, this quantity yields 600 gallons
/ OF refined oils viz: 125 gallons of benzole, rs OF
naphtha 225 OF lubricating oil, and l75 for lilum
mating purposes. BeuzOlo readily sells at 81 50
/ per gallon; lubrieatng ct 81 % naphtha aud
/ burning, at so cents. Preparations are making at
Cloverport for the manufacture OF beautiful semi
transparent candle from the substance, called par.
/ afine, resembling spermaceu, aud which is formed
in peary crystals IN che dark oils of the last dist
/ latiOn, after they have cooled. The re-
/ sduum from the last distillatiOn makes the 6Tst
quality OF asphsltum-used for securing vaults ETC.
nov imported and sold at $50 per ton.
/ We proceed now, ia order 10 render prominent
/ the importance Of the coal trade, 70 give synop
| els of the amounts produced az different times from
various points also shoS the constantly increas.
| ing sources Of consumption; viii likewise give
few facts 10 enable persons estimate It's relative
value aud cost as fuel compared with wood aud
finally proceed 70 show where you can had an album
dauI Ead profitable market for many years 70 coufe
"The coal trade Of Great Britain 10 1889 was as
folloss; the capital invested Was $50, 00O GOO; an
nual production 81, 200 600 tons +; value al pits
mouth, 8 600 600 value a. the plaes of cOnsanp-
/ tiOn, SlOU, 000. UU0. London alone consumed 3
600 90. IL 1850, ls0. 4S9 of coal Hers ship
ped 30 this country from England and the British
Provinces; ia 1888, s3l, Sos tons in 1854, TIE d..
niand could not Dc supplied. Manufacturing has
usde Ihis great demand for bitulninous cosl raj.
roads, stea ul-eugnes, Apd steam vessels uul Pap
.ly increase the eoasump q
Professor DeBoN. Noveu.oer, 1855, makes tie
folio flag Staten. nt; "Caal Trade 81 lisfs5uge
According 20 a report read before Ihs Pitss0urg
Board OF Trade, Sue amount Of coal shipped iFon
that port darug ths year sHcing s pgembsr I, 1859
aas Il. l4o.04S bushels Goatea il boats aud asts
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