Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-07-02

Doutd not, yet you did. You i'm
mediately compare my estimate on
STONE COAL iron with others estimate
on charcoal iron. Your committee
knew, from Commissioner Wells
statement, that my estimates were
made for stone coal iron; as they read
mining, loading and transportation of
eighty bushels of coal. Do you mine
charcoal at the Cambria Iron Works,
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Hon. Dan
iel j. Morrell?
You know what / meant, and yet,
willfully, cast a doubt upon the kind
of coal alluded to, when, too, you
had just said you would not do me that
injustice. l did not mean, and you
knew 1t, to create the impression that
charcoal pig-metal could be made at
$40 per ton on the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad, for L did not
allude to that kind of iron-but i do
conceive" and / do know that 1t is
possible to "make even stone-coa
iron,' not only on the line of the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad,
but on the lines of the Alabama and
Chattanooga, Cincinnati and Chatta-
nooga and other roads) at SIT per ton,
and state emphatically, for even
less than that sum-and defy you,
Hon. Daniel J. Morrell, of the Cam
bria Iron Works, Johnstown, Penn
sylvania, to prove the contrary.
The only stone-cOal furnace i'm op-
Grafton at present In the Southwest
Is that managed by General J. B.
Wilder, 1ate Major-general United
States Army who said in a public
address, In February, 1889, that one
ton OF iron ore, one of coal and one
ton of limestone, cost in Pittsburgh
Sl7, while In East Tennessee one ton
OF coal and one ton of limestone cost
only So. These materials as you,
Hon. Daniel J. Morrell, Cambria
Iron Works, JohnstOwn, Pennsylva-
MIA, know compose what produces,
after having been put through blast
furnace, pig-metal.
The Hon. Willard Warner, United
States Senator from Alabama, i'm q
note to the minority of your commit
tee, dated May 2, 1870, said Gener-
al Wilder, of Tennessee, told me to-
day that his iron cost him from SIS to
$22 per ton, and that with ample cap
itdt 1t could be made for Sl5 per tom"
But" you ask, "are his myl esti
mates, for they are nothing else, reli-
able T' and answer your own question
so innocently, SO fairly, so honorably,
by quoting the cost of cold-6idst
charcodl pig-metdt, made at the
works of Messrs. Woods, Yeatmen Il
Co., and Messrs. Hillman Brothers &
Sons, on the Cumberland river.
Andyou had said you Would not do
me the injustice to suppose that
meant to create the impression that
charcoal iron could be produced on
the line of the NdshuiUe and Chdtd-
noogd railroad at slipper ton. Then
why do you compare the cost of char
coal iron and stOne-rOal iron? You
should have asked Mr.. West, of the
Shelby Works, Alabama, what II
cost to make charcoal hot blast pig
!, iron at those works; he would have
answered you as he did me, last au-
tumn, in Colonel loves office, Vul-
can Iron Works, Chattanooga, "a
little over SO per ton" l suppose,
however, you only reported those
statements which best suited your oh.
ject.
My estimate was based upon the
production of furnace of 6,000 tons
capacity, costing 100000 in Septem-
ber, 1867. Now, u furnace can be
built in Tennessee, Georgia, or Ala
bama for that sum, which will pro
duce 10000 tons of metal per annum,
and now give an estimate of the
cost of ton of stone coal pig-metal,
and will premise the estimate by say
ing that | had proposition to mine
ON h.a. nj
dollar per ton, and to transport the
ore to the furnace at one dollar per
ton, and furnish the coal at two dol
lars and twenty-four cents per ton and
then transport the metal to Nashville
at two dollars per ton.
Estimate made June, 1870:
! Two tons iron ore at 81 per ton...Si 0O
Three tons stone coal at 81 "a. % ~
Limestone per ton of metal......... %
Repairs annually per ton'.."....,'.. ~ ~
Superintendence and labor per ton 8 0C
lncidentals per ton .....".. -......".. 81
Total .....................Sl6 i.
And there are ores in Alabama that
yield greater per cent. A ton OF
pig metal from these ores could be
made for less than $16 ~. j have
understood-J do not Assert it-that
since Mr.. West added to the height
of Shelby furnace stack-making IL
J sixty feet-and increased the number
of tryers that he makes one ton Of
) metal hot blast-with 100 bushels
Of charcoal, and that the ore to make
a ton of iron Is delivered to him fol
estimate to suit yourself
So far as the advantage of the thirty
, years organization, referred to in the
: letter of Messrs. Woods, Yeatman 4
, Co., written by the junior member, II
&. Geatman, Esq, is concerned,
will merely state that the Cumber
land Iron Works operations did no
net six per cent. profit on the invest
: ment for several years previous to my
administration. From 1853 to 1861
: under my management, the nettec
+ profit was over Is per cent. per an
{ mum; or, as before stated, S7i7, ,5S6 81
, in eight years. Mr.. Yeatman "pro
, tests that his [myl estimates shoult
, not receive currency" Why? Does
Mr.. Yeatman know any thing what
ever in regard TO the cost OF stone
. coal iron in Tennessee that he shoult
"protest my estimates should no
receive currency?
But you did not stop to inquire
, Hon. Daniel J. Morrell, whether Mr.
, featman knew any thing about stone
coal iron or any other kind of iron
r The tone of his letter coucurred to the
interest Of the Cambria Iron Com
pany--thdt was sufficient for you
However, Mr.. Yeatman Is my friend
) and between him and me, our differ
ence will be adjusted. But protests
{ honorable sir, from whatever source
they may emanate, nor unfail
aud untrue reports of committees
} can not undo nor set aside what ma
ture has so firmly established. Iror