The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-03-24
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that locations are opened for gravita-
tipc the iron ores and fuel to the fur
mace sites along the Reilroad and river.
Nor is this new and wide field of
productivp industry shadowed by a
single element of doubt, for sufficient
practical work has been done in it to
settle definitely and concluslvely all
considerations of oai, Coke, Iron Ores
and FIux. They have all been proved
10 he of excellent quality, and the fact
exhibited that superior pig iron can
be made in this region somewhat
cheaper than any other locality in the
State.
The outlying and detached position
of the Broad Top Coal Field, has fire.
quently led inquiriug minds to inves-
tigate the design OF its isolated post
ure, standing amongand surrounded
by the bold and frequent fiexures of
the Juniata District. The recent de-
velopments of immense deposits Of i
ran ore, the frequent concurrence of
their oufcrops as they rise and sink in
these wave fieXures, suggest the con-
Meeting link; and the answer is evil
dent: The Broad Top Mountain is
st0rehouse OF mineral fuel, set out in
region rich in iron ores lying at the
base Of the Coal Mountain. The
flames from one large furnace glare up
like ancient signal fires, announcing
that the design i'm the deposition Of the
ores and fuel is understood. Other
furnaces will rapidly rise up and an
swer this signal, until the wide valley
fIanking the Coal Field will glitter
with the fires of furnaces dotted along
its length, and resound with the din
of an industry so long neglected and
restrained"
The Kemble Coal and Iron Com
pany, by the erection Of furnace at
Riddlesburg, have solved the problem
whether iron can be manufactured in
this region at such cost as vii. justify
the investment of capital in the future
development of the ore deposits ly
ing adjacent to the coal measures of
Broad Top. Their venture hasproved
complete success. Whilst seventy 9TH
er furnaces in various parts Of the
State have gone out of blast during the
past year, that at Riddlesburg has re-
turned handsome profit to it's owners.
The manufacture of pig iron, like the
production of cotton or the collecting
of the precious metals, can flourish on
lv in localities where nature smiles up.
on the enterprise. High protective
tariffs fail 10 make furnaces remuner-
ative which are located at great dis
tances from the deposits of pre and to
which cheap fuel is not convenient
They are mere gratui.ies paid out Of
the pockets of the people TO keep life
in manufactures which are not self
sustaining and which must die in
spite of the highest protection, as wit
ness the seventy furnaces out of blast
in Pennsylvania at this day. But the
coal measures of Broad Top, the lime
stone Of the Juniata and its branches,
and the great seams of hematite and
fossiliferous ores lying adjacent, laugh
at Congressional uncertainty. for they
are a great certainty in themselves and
will add untold millions to the worlds
wealth in spite of the fluctuations of
the tariff. While those who insist on
wasting their means in an attempt to
make iron where God and Nature do
not intend it snail be made, depending
only on the crumbs that may fall from
the table of the general government,
wise capitalists will erect furnaces in
this favored region and by the unfail-
ing light of their ceaseless fires will
teach the lesson that the successful
manufacture of iron must become le-
gitimate business, ba7ei on judi
cious investment of clpital, and cam
not be dependent on protective legisla-
ton. For nature is reality, but Con-
gress is liumbug.