Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-19

pushed forward to completion under the
impetus of over $500, 900 subscribed CAPT.
tai, every dollar of which is as good and
collectable as though it was draft on the
Bank of England. Portions of the ma
chinery have already been purchased, and
will arrive here before long. The building
we have heretofore described. It will be
of enormous dimensions, and complete in
outline and detail. Here then viii open up
a cotton market, and here we will have a
home manufacture for our great staple. 1t
will be finished and put in operation next
season, and WILDE the precursor to the
erection of others.
We have a number of large and extern
sive Touring mills, capable of turning out
from three 20 five hundred barrels of flour
Of very superior quality daily. In this
regard we are surpassed by no city in
America.
The immense car and machine works at
the Nashville and Chattanooga depot are
among the most extensive in the country,
and the work turned out is not surpassed
anywhere.
Few persons who have not investigated
the subject have any idea of the extent to
which the manufacture of furniture has
been brought to in this city. This branch
of business is truly enormous, and hundreds
of hands are engaged daily at remunerative
wages. The article manufactured is better
and more durable than the imported, and
immense quantities are being shipped to
other States. .....--.-.. --..
In iron manufactures our progress has
been wonderful, numerous first class estab-
ishments that turn out boilers, engines,
s
tons having gone into operation
in comparatively brief space of time. Amy
one, by going into the establishment of
Messrs. Wood Il Simpson, will be convinced
of this. The mandatory of agricultural
implements is carried on to heavy extent,
and the articles made here cannot be sur
passed in material and finish by the most
famed and older Eastern establishments.
Cedar ware is also manufactured in vast
quantities, and the article made commands
better market than those of a similar
character from any part of the country.
The shipments of this class of our manu-
features, even to Northern and Eastern
cities, are very heavy. Broom factories on
an extended scale have been put in opera
ton, and thousands of dozens of our manu-
facture annually find their way to other
markets.
But recently the wheel, hub, handle and
spoke factory of Messrs French & Co.,
went into successful operation, which
marked an event in this line of business
At this establishment, all the wood gearing
of wagons, and vehicles of every discrip-
ton, including every species of handles,
etc., are turned outin numerous quantities
and of such material as similar establish
ments north of us do not possess, and can
not get Besides these, iron founderies
and other manufacturing establishments
are being started all round Us. Already
the subjects of sugar refinery, a glass
factory, nail establishment, and manu-
factory Of tools have been contemplated
and discussed. 1t requires no stretch of
the fancy to picture the period, when boat
building, and preparing ship tlmbers will
be practical enterprise of Nashville to
which the illimitable forests of the Upper
Cumberland will contribute. Fl
In this connection we must mention the
large Agricultural and Mechanical manu-
factory soon to be erected by Messrs. L.
II. Jones & Co. on the corner of the Muir
freesboro pike and Wharf Avenue in South
Nashville. The company has purchased
between seven and eight acres of land In
the most beautiful and eligible location for
the purpose that could have been selected
in the vicinity of Nashville. The location
is supplied with abundance Of water and is
convenient to railroad and river transpor-
tation. 1t is also healthful location for
employees, and easy of access to cheap and
plentiful provisions. The Decatur railroad
has the right of way through the grounds,
crossing the river about half mile below
and connecting with The Louisville and
Nashville road on the Edgefeld side.
Tracks will be built to the mandatory
from the Decatur depot, giving connec-
ton with all the railroads centering in the
city. Street cars will be run by the door
connecting from Cherry street by way of
the factory and Edgefeld branch of Col
lege street. .-.-s . ..r rF a.
The main building of the mandatory
viii be constructed of brick, three stories
high, with stone basement and for,nda-
ton. The building will be $50 feet long
and 80 feet wide, with fire proof roof and
flooring, and will have an elevator 10 by
10 feet in the center. The engine room
will be in the basement, all the shaftings,
pulleys and bolts will also be below, giving
more room above. There will be a fire
proof ''shavings room" in the shops above,
with an improved Mcclellan cluster, for
carrying shavings from the planes and ma
chinery out Of the building. From the
main building there will be a wing ex-
tending back $50 feet long and so feet
wide, for foundry and blacksmith shops.
with improved cupola and fan for foundry.
blasts and FORCES. This is to be built of
brick, with stone foundation, skylight,
yenhlators, etc. They will do all their
own casting and blacksmiths work. The
shops will be heated with steam. and
every department will be supplied with
the most improved machinery for the DUR
pose. They will manufacture tanning
mills, wheat fans, smut machines and seed
cleaners. They viii also manufacture
reapers and mowers, straw cutters, cider
mills, cultivators, harrows, plows, double
shoYels, churns, threshers, refrigerators
and other agricultural implements and
farm machinery. The building WILDE IN
der the supervision of Messrs. T. H. Jones
& Co., and Mr.. T. 81. Jones viii go North
in few days to select the machinery, all
OF which will be of the most improved pat
tern. Their opportunities win be such that
they will be enabled to extend such manu-
featuring facility as the trade may demand.
They expect to have the building ND early
in November, and to be in operation in
January. Next season they aim to turn
out machinery, etc, in vast quantities
This marks another event in our industrial
history And thus it is that our progress
and development as a great manufacturing
city is upward and onward.
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