The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-12-07

extent, purity, ease of access, and
their surprising excellence for do
mestio use, steam, smithing, smeIt-
ing ores, and manufacturing iron.
In addition to the extended coal
fields in Ohio commanded by this
road, through the Chesapeake &
Ohio road, it will reach the superior
mines of Splint and Camel coal on
the Kanawha River in Virginia.
The iron ores of Southern Ohio
have been famous for years for their
quantity and quality. Over 1OO,-
900 tons per year Of pig-irOn are
now manufactured By the twenty
FIVE furnaces near which this road
passes, and its completion will great
Iy increase their production by Of
fering cheap transportation both for
the raw and manufactured article.
This line of road, in connection
with the Dayton & Michigan Rail-
road, whose maximum grade is less
than 40 feet, can bring the Lake Su-
perior ores from Toledo to the rich
smelling Goals of Southern Ohio,
and by proper mixtures with Ohio
ores, produce the best possible grades
of iron, and return to Toledo coal
and ore that will be invaluable to
their manufacturing interests, and
at any point along the line where
enterprise and skill, and capital can
be combined, manufactures can be
built up.
These ores and coal may meet at
Dayton, and pig iron, bar iron, wire,
nails, nuts, bolts, and railroad axles,
to the extent of consumption in a
circuit of fifty miles, can be success
fully manufactured. The command
ing of a larger circuit Of trade will
depend on the skill, energy aud cap
ital engaged in the manufacture.
Cheap coal, say $3.50 to $500 per
ton, will make cheap steam power,
and cause a thousand other manu-
factories to spring into life, and can
not fail to give new impetus to ev-
cry variety of manufactures. The
increase of manufactures is felt by
every class of business. Activity in
business gives value to real estate
the increase of which, in value, from
this cause alone, in five years, will
be ten times the entire sum assigned
to our county.
The through business which the
| Chesapeake & Ohio will be able t.
command, added to the traffic which
the diversified industry Of the one
half million population, and the
mineral wealth beyond computation
which this line of road will com
mand, cannot fail to make its stock
among the most valuable, and mus
become year by year increasingly so
Every citizen who subscribes tC
the amount assigned to our county
to raise, receives in return SURE
dividend-paying stock, intrinsically
and increasingly valuable, and the
stimulus given to manufactures anC
business of every kind by the intro
duCtion of cheap coal and iron, vii
Light up every fireside with thrill
of hope and joy and happiness.
E. E. BARNEY, ADAM PRITz,
THos. Brown, J. D. LOOMS,
S. MARSHALL, JOHN WIGGIM,
HENRY L. Pope, W. P. HUFFMAN
Is. F. WoODsUM, r. w. STEELE.
During the reading of the repor
Mr.. Barney made explanations il
regard to certain statements it cOu
tained, for the purpose of furnishing
more complete and satisfactory in
formation.
Referring to the words "limitles
quantities" of coal, he said he mean
by that more than enough to las
five hundred years, allowing for thr
natural increase of population dur
ing that period. He said he neve
knew anything about that Jackson
county coal region until he wen
there, and never was so much sur
prised in his life with what he saw
when he did go. Referring to thr
vast deposits of coal, he said sOmu
gentleman who owned a hill full o
coal, inquired of another what wOulC
be the increase in the value of hi
coal hill when the railway was con
3 5tructed? The reply was, "abou
one cent an acre, for coal is so abun
dant about here that it will take ont
hundred years to get enough of i
away to increase the value Of wha
remains"
Referring to the quality of the
! coal, as mentioned in the report, Mr.
| Barney said that if any one coulC
mention another good trait in it;
character which had not been in
cluded in the report, he would be
glad to know, and appropriate it, fol-
the coal deserved it. 1t was entire
ly free from sulphurOus gas, which
was so offensive in some other Ohio
varieties, and made so little smoke
that in the town of Jackson, in
which this coal was used exclusive
! ly, there was no sign from the usual
/ jdiscolOratiOn or SCOT, that coal was
used there at all. For blacksmith
purposes it was equal to charcoal.
Mr.. Barney then made some very
interesting statements in reference to
the quality and quantity of the iron
ore-in supply it was inexhaustible,
and in quality first-class. Lake Su-
( perior ore, which requires to be mix