The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-05
JACKSON COUNTY.
WHAT A MEMPHIAN sOJOURNER
SAYS ABOUT 1T.
COAL RESOURCES, IRON FURN.
ACES, RAILROADS, CROPS,
&C.
From the Memphis Public Ledger.]
CARBoNDALE, JACKSON COUNTY, |
August u, 1872.

lands. Hemmed in between two great
rivers--the Ohio and Mississippi-it Is in.
deed region Of beauty and fertility.
There are no towering mountains nor ex-
tensive ranges Of rocky hills in this Eden
| Of A merica, nor vast caverns, except those
from which are extracted the tons of coal
that are yearly sent down the Mississippi
to Cairo, Memphis, and other ports on that
grand tributary. In this delightful Sec
ton Of Illinois cotton and tobacco are
cultivated proHtably, and all the cereals of
the North and South produced, and the
vines Of the grape, and trees Of the apple,
pear peach and ounce, yield bounteously
| In their season.
Near Murphysboro containing two
thousand inhabitants and the county seat
| of Jackson, are the extensive Mount
Carbon Coal Compsnys Works, employ
ing three hundred and Atty miners, and
shipping daily over one thousand tons Of
coal. Besides this company's works are
other shafts worked on small scale.
j. Harris, of Missouri, A. G. Dryden
and A. Conner, Of Carbondale recently
pure hssed nine hundred acres Of the the
most valuable coal lands near Murphys-
boro II 10 the intention of this company
to bring the ores Of the Iron Mountain in
direct communication with the vast coal
fields Of the county. In view Of this, q
company has been organized and road
will be built from the Iron Mountains 10
Grand Tower.
II. Gartside, of st. Louis, has purchased
FIVE hundred acres of coal land, and will
sink four shaft and William Lewis four
hundred acres, who will sink two shafts.
The ranges Of hills in jackson county
are penetrated with rich strata Of focal, from
which much profit will be gained by those
who, in the future, develop their hidden
wealth and since the completion of the
Cairo and st. Louis railroad has become a
| fixed fact lands contiguous TO it are fast
increasing in value.
IRON FURNACES.
The Grand Tower Conpany's furnaces
| are situated below the Devils Oven, on
| the face OF the bluff known as the Devil ;
Backbone, aud are strung along the Missis-
| sppi river several hundred yards. heir
main motive power is obtained from two
! low-presure horizontal engines, twelve
! hundred horse power. The iron turned
out Of these furnaces is considered the best
in the United States. II. V. ELEPHANT is
superintendent of the works, the capacity
of which is seventy tons, and employs two
! hundred operatives.
The Big Muddy furnaces capacity ffty
tons) are one mile south Of Grand Tower,
and are superin,ended by Jas. E. Mills.
Their power is a low.presure ay.wheel
beam engine, the walking beam weighing
fity-,bree thousand pounds cylinder,
three feet in diameter, with seven feet
stroke air-cylinder, eight feet in diameter
and nine feet stroke, throwing eight hum
bred and forty-two cubic feet Of air at every
revolution, or seven to ten thousand cubic
feet in q minute. The Ay-wheel weighs
| ffty-six thousand pounds.
These furnaces are among the best on
| this Continent, and elicit much attention
| from iron capitalists throughout the
country.
RAILROADS.
The Cairo and ST. Louis narrow-guage
railroad, passing through this county, Is
being pushed forward with rapidly. Its
iron rails will weigh forty pounds to the
yard, over which will run twenty-six
engines and the corresponding amount OF
rolling stock. 1t will run through sixty
miles OF coal fields, the whole distance Of
the road being only one hundred and fifty
| miles, and Will cost $4,000 per mile-con-
structing, ironing and equipping. In this
| railroad can be seen the commencement Of
u system Of narrow-guage roads that will
extend from St. Louis through Memphis
and Vicksbu-g to the Gulf of Mexico.
| The first locomotive is now on the rails,
and is named rip Van Winkle.
Work on the Cairo and Vincennes rail-
road is progressing rapidly. Twelve hum
dred tons OF iron rail are ut Mound City.
Cars will be running by the first Of No
vember.
The Grand Tower road extending from
Grand Tower to Carbondale, is doing u
heavy business. Sias Adsit, for man y
years its Superintendent, resigned that
| position, and Jasper Decker has been APP
pointed road master vice Archer Nc
Donald.
The Carbondale and Shawneetown rail-
road is being advanced with speed, and
when completed will open up direct CON-
municaton between the Ohio and Missis-
sippi across the productive peninsula.
A road is contemplated from Terra
Hsute, Indiana, to Grand Tower, SO as to
tap the riches of the Iron Mountain, to be
called the Terra Haute and Carbondale
railroad.
POLITICAL.
Hon. William A. Lemma, of Carbon
dale, and John II. Oberly, of Cairo, recei-
we'd the nomination by Liberal Republicans
and Democrats for Representatives.
Jackson county has been vibrating be-
tween Democracy and Radicalism for years
past, the last election going Democratic by
only seven votes. Under the influence of the
Liberal movement the majority will range
| among the hundreds, as all the Germans of
Murphysboro' and the county, under the
lead Of Peter Molter, formerly strong
Radical, are now Greeley men and enthu-
siastic in the cause.
In Carbonate, the former home OF
John A. Logan, a place fanatically Radi-
cal, over thirty Republicans are now in
| the Greeley harness-Dan Brush, a
wealthy and prominent citizen and sue
cessful lawyer, being in the lead. Every
where along the route, from Carbonate to
Grand Tower, tho political revolution has
| done its work, and men whose passions
have been kept in flame by Logan and
Munn's war-and-widow speeches, and who
have been taught by them heretofore to
look upon Greeley as the apostle of human
liberty, will not change their opinions as
these political mountsbanks attempt to
unravel the Chalo,t web they conjured
up.
Logan will speak in Carbonate to-
morrow, at the bidding of his master at
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