Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-23
PRODUCTION OF IRON By
ANTHRACITE FURNACES
Total tons 1856 20,

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There are ten principal centers of the iron
manufacture in the United States.
|. Northern New York, once including Yer
mont, and using the fine primitive ores of
the Adirondac mountains Here are forty
bloomerIes and three anthracite furnaces.
Z. Tnr Highlands a narrow belt extending
through Berkshire, Massachusetts, into south
ern Vermont, and through northern New Jer-
sey into Pennsylvania, containing forty-four
charcoal and twenty-five anthracite furnaces
and sixty FORCES, using hematite and magnet
ic ores.
3. Eastern Pennsylvania and northeastern
Maryland, with nnety-eight anthracite fur
naces one hundred and three charcoal furna-
ces and one hundred and seventeen FORCES;
none of which last, however produce iron
from the ore. This great iron region is itself
divsiblc into distinct smaller area. some of
them using magnetic, some hematite, and
some fossil ores.
4. Northwestern Virginia and southwest
ern Pennsylvania is a distinct region on the
eastern outcrop of the lower coal measures,
with forty-two charcoal furnaces and two
o, three lorges, and using carbonate of iron.
1t includes the Cambria iron works, which ac-
counts for its apparent growth.
8. Northwestern Pennsylvania and north
eastern Ohio, with siXty-six furnaces using
the ores of the northwestern outcrop of the
lower coal measures. The charcoal furnaces
Of this region are all going out and the coke
and raw bituminous furnaces are increasing
in number size and efficiency. All the forg-
ing of this region is done by the rolling mills
at Pittsburgh.
6. The Hanging Rock, or Ironton region,
crosses the Ohio River as IA belt OF charcoal
furnaces about fifteen miles widea one hun
dred long; forty-fye in number on the Ohio
side, and seventeen on the Kentucky side. Its
ores are all from the lower coal measures and
at its northern end il is beg inning 10 use stone
coal for fuel
T. The old manufacturing region of middle
and eastern Virginia is prolongation south
ward of the eastern Pennsylvania with the
same ores, but using charcoal exclusively AZ u
fuel East of the Blue Ridge are sixteen fur
naces, only one OF which remains IA blast, and
west of the Blue Ridge thirty. There are
thirty-iive FORCES.
{. Northeastern Tennessee and northwest
ern North Carolina have nine furnaces and
forty-one bloomery FORCES in a compact area.
Along the base of the Cumberland Mountains
five furnaces and fourteen FORCES use the Dye
stone, fossil, upper Silurian ore. In the south
western corner of North Carolina are five for
GEES, and through the middle of the State runs
a belt of five furnaces and twenty-seven for
ges. This whole country possesses iacalcula-
BILE resources for iron making, and must be-
come at some distant day one of the great
centers.
9. In western Tennessee and Kentucky,
around ClarkSviilS and Eddyyille, lies the
principal and, nj present, only important IRON
region of the far West. Ii contains forty-tive
furnaces and some FORCES.
10. La Missouri beginning has been made
with seven furnaces, which must develop into
a great iron-making region around the Iron
Mountain and Pilot Knob, when fed by Goals
from Western Missouri AMI Kansas.
The Lake Superior iron region has been
opened AS a mining region only within two or
three years, though it is worked with great
success ut various points near the copper
mines, IN Michigan, aud on the Western shore
in Minnesota. Most of the ore is shipped To
Detroit aud Cleveland. for the use OF the roll
ling mills of the West. The total prodlc-
ton OF these ore WIS probably $4,000 tons in
1857 This will, Mt 40 distant day. be prin-
cipal iron making region.
1abulating these regions on the scale OF