Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-01-07

the thunder, of the great mill
wheels heard along her streams
With exhaustless fields Of The
finest coal within less than a hun
dred miles of them, the people Of
Nashville and Memphis burr
Pittsburg coal at forty cents 6
bushel! = --i ''" 'a1 ~
Think Of itl With coal enough
TO supply their every demand fol
a thousand years to come, lying al
their very doors, SO that with the
most ordinary mining facilities
and a few miles of railroad tc
transport IT,. endless fortunes
could be made by delivering it tc
them at ten cents a bnshel, YET
from sheer lack Of take.hold-ac.
tiveness they are going for II
twelve hundred miles, and paying
| four times as much! N4
Many cattle are killed in this
State. Her tanners annually dress
large quantities of leather, and
ship it clear across the continent
to Lynn, Massachusetts,, to have
it manufactured into shoes. And
then, after all the freights and
storages and commissions, and
manufacturers and merchants
profits are added on, Tennessee
people are compelled to buy back,
aud wear, the same Identical lea
theri Was there ever such mis-
management, such self.robbery?
A few thousand dollars would
establish boot and shoe factory,
right where the leather is made,
and the shoes worn; and while
the proprietor's fortune would
grow ike Jonah's squash, or a
''loyai" officials insolence, the
people of the State would get bet
ter shoes at a third less cost.
Near the little town of Cleve-
land in the southeastern part of
the State, the finest quality of
variegated marble, capable of
receiving as beautiful a polish
as any Egyptian or italian stone,
absolutely juts out like limestone
in less favored regions, precipice
of marble! And it is only worked
as some neighbor wants a tomb
stone! Fabulous riches almost
.unknownl l sr III 9tTes
be In the same neighborhood lie
the Duck-Town copper lands
Miles upon miles of territory un-
derlaid by copper ore which yields
from five to eight percent..of pure
copper, as fine as the boasted pro-
duct of the Lake Superior mines.
One company alone, under the
management ofaJohn Thomas,
Esq, formerly of New Orleans,
but now of this city, has under
taken to develop this vast deposi-
tory of wealth.
They have had to labor under
every disadvantage; listlessness
of the people of the State; timidi-
ty or stupidity of capitalists /; and
unprecedentedly low price of metal.
And yet, in three years since
the war, after expending immense
sums for machinery and in repair
ing the damages of war, they
find themselves owing about
hundred thousand dollars, with |
two hundrd thousand dollars worth
of copper on hand, and their mines |
producing about six thousand dol |
lars a month. !
With a few miles Of railroad, |
to bnild which they are now en-
deavoring to get aid from the
State, they will be able to supply /
themselves with the very best ar.
ticle of stone coal; this will re-
duce the cost of smelling five I
cents on every pound of copper; |
they will then be enabled to defy |
all competition; their facilities for /
production will be illimitable; and
Tennessee viii become the great
copper market Of the world. I
Such are few hastily collected |
instances of wondrous resources
1ndeveloped; rare opportunities
inimproved; unrivaled advanta-
yes unappreciated, almost I'M
znoWn.ui 25s ssrc5 a. .9tgU
But iher gra8dest item of all, |
hat which is of more Importance I
Lan any Others which holds out
greater inducements, would have
ess to tear from competition, and
Tculdz be as sure pay, as q gold l.
nine, ora patriotic government l.
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