Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-12-27
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It is gratifying, says an exchange, to notice
the great sxertons now being made in the South
to develop its resources. This exhibition OF
Southern enterprise, thrift, industry and iaven-
tive fAculty, must satisfy the world that the
Southern people can speedily become, within
themselves, the most indep nation on the
face of the globe. About the time the war com
menced we knew nothing except to grow cot
ton, corn, tobacco, rice and sugar and it WAS
believed in the North that we would soon be
starved into submission by the embargo at Cairo
and along the coast. However the stern scheol
Of nscessity, instead of being of such vital in
jury to as, as the North predicted, has proved a
perfect blessing, It has shown US what we
were really worth and what we were capable of
doing and to-day we fnd eursslves encouraged
ss 10 the future by the indisputsbe fact that we
are able to manufacture almost everything in
quantities to support our armies and supply the
non-combatsIts st home. We are now man
ufscturing cannon, musketg, nhes, caps, swords,
bsyonets, powder, shot, shell, cotton and wool
en- goods, printing paper, type, ink, presses,
machinery, copper and iron, els, furniture,
so-n-sheIlers, snd-looms, spinning wheels, cot
ton cards, rops, twine, salt, candles, soap,
brooms, buckets, earEhsn ware, sewing silk,
and host of other articles, in such quantities
as to satisfy tbe NEST skepticsl that the South
can, in q short time, become selisustaining in
the numerous branches of industry which she
has heretofore neglected, and place herself on a
hrn industrial footing.
Ameng the recent enterprises, is one for the
manufacture of bar iron. The company has
been organized in taat thriving and g0aheal alative
STATE, Georgia, which has done more toward
making tSe South independent of Northern and
European markets than any other State in the
COnfsderacy. It was feared at one time thet
iron must como from the North or foreign coun
tries but whenever a necessity arises resource
is always found, and now we are satisfied that
the people Of the South can, in short time, pro-
ducs all the iron they need for the government
and home consumption. As little IS generally
known, even theoretically, of the manufacture
of iron, a few remarks on this subject, Cleaned
from the Richmond Examiner, will not be with
out interest, especially when attention is SO gen.
orally turned to our resources in this article IroI
enters into three FORMS pig iron, bar or maleablt
iron, and stoel. The two latter are usually made
from the former, by being remelted and con
Vertsd by labor, heat and the chemical changes
produced BY them, in conjunction with stmos
Phsric influences, ints msleable or bar iron, art
this again, mainly by heat, long continued snt
moderate, produced by charcoal, into stsel
Nearly sll ths bar iron manufactured in modern
times is done from pig iron, aRd this again into
steele when desired. The ancient or primitive
way Of making bar iren was direct from the ore
This mode is very simple, very cheap, and is th'
best for wssring purposes as in plOws, anC
other agricultural implements. By this process
iron, which is in the ore in the morning, may
be in ploW at work BY night. A forge will
two fires can be built at very near the cost of 4
good saw MILL provided it is a suitable site.