New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-04
COPPER MANUFACTURE IN THE SOUTH.

The South has needed Just such shmuiant as
the North has impaired to her by this war, in
order to show the world how inexhaustible is her
natural resources and how speedily, when neees-
sary, they can be developed. We have noticed IN
these columns the various manufacturing enter
prises as they successfully sprung up and now we |
are called upon to record one Of the most llnpor-
tant for the Southern Confederacy which has yet /
come to our knowledge. 1t is known to our bust |
ness community that some twelve or eighteen
months since Copper Company was organized in |
this city. for the purpose OF working some proper
ties in Ducktown, Tennessee, under charter
granted by that State. As usual in all under
takIngs of that nature in the South there were
grave doubts in the minds of many Of our shrewd
business men and capitalists to the ultimate
cess of the enterprise. Fortunately, however, a
few of the more energetic and less skeptcal inves
tigated the subject, visited and examined the
properties, invested their money and went to uo1k.
| Now mark the result! By the foresight good
Judgment and prompt action of few Of the leading
spirits interested in and entrusted with the man
agement of the New Orleans companies, all the
necessary machinery was secured for making pure
copper at the mines. At the time the Southern
ports were blockaded, not pound of pure copper
had ever been made in the South, and copper and
tin were selling at the same price, say about
twenty-five cents per pound. Now tin costs our
Government t,ro dollars per pound, and copper the
same price as before the blockade, viz: twenty
five cents. N.a Vs. a1--fsz
This shows what can be accomplished by deter
mined energy and perseverance, and we want our
Government and every citizen in the Confederacy
, to understand that this result has been brought
about by the Neg Orleans Conpanies, and it is to
them and their management that all the credit is
due. Instead of taking advantage of the neces
sites of the times, these companies, satisfied witt
fair profits, actually furnish the Government a
peace prices, thus exhibiting a commendablf
spirit Of patriotism. Since the early part of JUNE
u these mines have turned ont an average of 81,
y thousand pounds of pure copper daily, and in
. few weeks the capacity will lie doubled, when the.
. will produce twelve thousand pounds per day
=. . But this is not all. Under the auspices of thes
u | gentlemen, capitalists have come. forward, and
- rolling mill is being erected at Cleveland, Ter
- nessee; and within sixty days the South will b
- supplied with sheet and bolt copper, and thu
=, render us independent of all other nations TO
- = | these indispensable articles.
~ Thus it will be seen that the Confederacy is ir
- debted to the enterprise of few of the citizens {
this city for the supply of an article of prime nj
II cessity in time of war; and our Government, b
+. their promptness in making contract with th
a companies for two thousand tons of the metal, 81
n cured it at peace prices, and by so doing enable
~ the companies to induce Other capitalists to ere
rolling MILL (the only one in the south.) ar
thus supply the market with copper for mechal
% cal purposes