Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-03
The Manufacturing Interests OF Nash

a large city. The smoke and SCOT OF
hundred FORCES and foundries have made
Pittsburg the great iron city of the West
Lowell had no peculiar advantages over
other localities, but a concentration of CAPT
tai has given it the monopoly of the cotton
manufactures in the East. Pittsburg, To-
Gated in the heart of an iron and coal re-
gion, has but few advantages over Nash
vile. Coal is much cheaper there, but
! the quality Of iron there is far inferior
| to the Tennessee iron, and the difference
! in the value of the manufactured iron
| will equalize the price of coal. The high
| price of coal has always tended to dis
courage manufacturing in this city, but the
early completion of the Edgeheld and Ken
! lucky railroad, which taps one of the finest
coal fields in Kentucky, and the opening of
! the Tennessee and Pacific road to the in
/ exhaustible coal beds Of the Cumberland
range, will soon obviate this objection, and
capital will then seek investments in man
ufacturing enterprises here. Even at the
present high rates for labor and fuel, the
capital invested in manufacturing in Nash
vile has been much more remunerati7e
than if invested in stocks or bonds or any
kind Of mercantile business.
To give our readers some idea of the
manufacturing enterprises of the city, we
lay before them a brief summary of what
is being done in each establishment.
THE PHOENIX MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Samuel E. Jones & Co. are largely engaged
in the manufacture of all kinds of hollow
ware, stoves, steam engines, mill ma
chinery, pig metal and bloom iron. They
have, in connection with their foundry, IA
furnace in Dickson county, in which they
are able to make from sixty to eighty tons
of pig metal every week, which realizes
them $50 per ton. They have in their en-
ploy about one hundred and forty hands,
to whom they pay about $500 per month
They make a superior stove and can sell
them two dollars cheaper than can be laid
down here from any establishment from
Pittsburg or Cincinnati.
ROMANS MACHINE SHOP,
Situated on Cherry street, is manufacturing
all sorts of mill machinery, engines and
boilers, and keeps sixteen hands regularly
employed at remunerative wages. This
branch Of manufacture can be indefinitely
extended.
ANDERsoN's FOUNDRY
On Cherry street, makes all sorts of cast
ings, running gear for mills and hollow
ware, and keeps nine hands employed
THE NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA RAIL-
ROAD CAR SHOPS
Are the most extensive ones of the kind in |
the Southern country. The machine shop |
is an immense building, and is kept con-
stantly busy refitting engines, repairing |
boilers and keeping in good order the |
machinery of the railroad. They have one
hundred and thirty-fve hands employed |
The carpenter shop connected with the |
company does large business in manufac- |
turing new cars and repairing old ones
They are building some of the Pullman,
Kimball d Ramsay's Southern sleeping |
coaches, which are finished with more |
elaborate taste than any turned ont |
from any Northern shop. They are
also building street railroad cars,
some of which are running on the |
Church and Spruce Street railroad. They |
hayea spacious building and keep eighty |
eight operatives employed at good wages. |
THE NASHVILLE AND DECATUR RAILROAD
SHOPS
Are situated at the Junction near the old |
Cemetery, and keep constantly employed
eighteen carpenters, fifteen machinists, |
twenty blacksmiihs and two painters. |
They are engaged in re-titting and re-
building old old cars.
THE ROCK CITY PAPER MANUFACTURING |
COMPANY
Have erected their buildings on Browns |
Creek, near the corporate limits. They are
engaged exclusively in the manufacture of |
wrapping paper, and keep twenty hands |
employed. They use three tons OF |
wheat every day. This is a new branch of |
manufactures in this country, but promises
to be one which will yield good dividend |
on the capital invested The machinery of |
these mills cost forty thousand dollars.
THE TENNESSEE COAL OIL REFINERY COM
PANY
Have their refinery located on the Nolens- |
vile pike, two miles from the city, and |
have seventeen hands employed. They |
are prepared to refine sixty barrels a day, |
and intend to enlarge their refinery so as
to refine all the petroleum which their well |
in Overton county yields, which is three |
hundred barrels daily. This is the only |
oil refinery in Tennessee.
THE RESERVOIR MILLS,
Situated above the city limits, on the banks |
of the Cumberland, keep fourteen hands
employed, and are able to turn out $50 bar
rels of flour per day. These mills make one
Of the finest brands of -four ever sold |
in this market. There are three saw mills, |
adjoining the Reservoir Mills, which have
the capacity to saw thirty thousand feet of |
plank per day.
THE PENITENTIARY
Has been converted into a large manufac-
turing establishment, and if properly man |
aged, would pay an enormous dividend to
the lessees.
THE SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING |
HOUSE
Is located on the Public Square. 1t has |
a stereotype department in running order,
aud keeps fifty employees at work, 1t pub
fishes besides books, the Christian Aduocats
Home Monthly, Bonner Of Peace, Sabbath |
School Gem, and Ladies Pearl.
WHO CAN BEAT THIs-Charle Wad- |
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