Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-04-30
COMPOSITION OF TEN NEssEE COAL.

regret not being able to procure
analysis OF Goals from the Cahaw ba
and Warrior coalfields, but doubt not
they are equal tO,thOse of Tennessee
and Georgia for smelling ores. There
are some of our Goals which are too
rich in bitumen rs they come from
the mine for furnace use. They, how
ever, make good coke, and that, you
know, il excellent fuel for reducing
ores. It can not be disputed that pig
1 metal can be made in the section OF
country referred to at S12 per ton less
cost than in Western Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana. Then 1t follows
that railroad bars, every description
of iron and nails can be manufactured
Mt iees cost. The convention of pig
metal into railroad bars and other de-
scriptions of iron and nails will cost
no more in your city than In Pitts.
hurgh, Steubenville or Cincinnati
Railroad companies are paying SS5
per ton for bars for ronds now build
ing, when the iron can be made d.
rectly upon their line of road ut q
cost of $50 per ton.
Is II not patent to every one who
has looked into the subject that cot
| ton fabrics can be manufactured at q
lower cost in the cotton fields of the
South than in New England? And
Is II not equally clear that iron can be
made at less cost where the ore and
coal and limestone are in close prox-
unity, than Mt Pittsburgh aud other
points, where the ores and Goals are
separated by from five hundred to sew.
en- hundred miles?
1t is not necessary to speak of the
quality OF "stone coal - iron, as you
are aware that all the iron and nailt
sold in Nashville from the Ohio river
is the product of that kind of metal
Rest assured, sir, that the day /.
not far distant If we are true to our
selves and have erergy and the skill
to make use of the great advantages
the God Of Nature has conferred upon
us-when the iron men Of the South
west will compete successfully for eht
trade of the Ohio river.
The question naturally arises: Who
will be the first to penetrate thes'
lands, whose stones are in iron on
Of whose hills thou mayest dig BRASS
whose mountains are filled with fuel
loIIlltti III Ilutult . w EOtl
vert iron ores into metal essential t,
our prosperity? VIII Nashville oper
these mines of coal and iron, and II
connection with her cotton Factories
and other enterprises now contem
plated, become the great manufactur
, ing center Of the Southwest? Or will
she permit some future rival city t,
seize the glittering prize?
reaffirm, sir, every thing state'
in my letter to Mr.. Morgan as a tru
state of facts, which may he contra
dicted, but can not be disproved.
had examined with care the irol
and coal lands In the section referre'
to, and i'm comparing them with tn
iron districts of Pennsylvania, upol
Lehigh. Schuylkill and Juniata riv
ers in the east, and those upon tn
western slope of the Alleghanies, an,
the iron section of Ohio, Indiana an
Lake Superior, which l had befor
visited for information, the advan
tsges of the former over the latte
were 50 apparent that I" he who ran
could see.
The letter was written, sir, {
make known to capitalists and praC
) tical men the facts in regard to tn
rich deposits of coal an iron ore II
the States named, not to advertis
coal lands or theorize, as stated b.
+, Hon. John Scott, of Pennsylvania
in a speech before the Senate, nor 4
affect the tariff on iron, as in
! simulated by some; my views upQl
} that question, however, are thos
taught by Henry Clay, "a tariff 70
revenue, with incidental protection
: to American manufactures; bn
from the present aspect of affairs h
, that regard, fear the policy of "pro
lection " will be bfuken down by it
friends. ItVtkN V4stl
I had the iron ores and bitunnlnou
Goals now being used in Pennsylva
mia. Ohio and Indiana, and the ore
, and Goals of Tennessee and Georges
aualyized, the resultof which prove,
| that the Goals ndore of the latter wcr
equal To the former; and while II
one, these materials with an abun
dance of limestone, lie I'm close proy
0 unity, in the other they are separate,
by hundreds of miles. For instance
U the lockwood Furnace, In Roam
0 county, Tennessee, is supplied wit
Q ore, bituminous coal and limeston
a by a tramway not over one half mil
0 In length, and there are furnace site
: on the Nashville and Chattanooga
and Alabama and Chattanooga, othe
{ railroads, very nearly rs adpar
Q dangerously located. The Pittsburgh
. Youngstown, Steuhenville, Wheeling
: Cincinnati, Southern Indiana, an
5 pigiron producing districts are SUI
A piled with ore, principally from Nj
gaunee Point, Michigan. The ore
\ Transported thence Is miles b. MAJ
= quettS, Lake Superior or EscaDahs
= Er.rn nnN 20 nlilrs by I'll il,-n-