Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-28

daily, which sells for SIS, to $50 per ton.
Dover Furnace, owned by Woods, Yeat-
man & Co, is cold blast Furnaces and has
the capacity of making from ten to twelve
tons of metal per day. Connected with
their Furnaces Is an ex tensive farm where
nearly ali TIE necessary supplies are made.
This firm hires by the year and employs ne
groes to q large extent Is (
Rough and Ready, Clark, and Lagrange
are all hot blast, and make each about ff-
teen tons of pig metal daily. The proprie-
tors are Northern men and employ white
labor by the Job. At Lagrange and Clark
there are two or three hundred white fami-
lies, who have immigrated to the country
since the war, many of them engaged in
farming, but by far the larger number en-
ployed at the furnaces. The furnaces sup
ply ready markets for all the hay, corn, veg
etables and provisions grown in the county
on the south side of the river. They are
all prospering at present. Charcoal s the
only fuel used in these furnaces, and the
timber to supply this demand has been cut
from thousands of acres in the county. A
great deal of this coaling land, moderately
productive, may be bought for two or three
dollars per acre.
The people of the county feel a decided in
terestin schools, and will doubtless take steps
10 short time to inaugurste good system
ofcommon schools. The influx of industri-
GUS and intelligent Immigrants will compel
the landholders TO see the advantages which
would accrue to themselves by such a sys-
tenn, and your correspondent is happy to
state that be saw not prominent citizen
but was favorably inclined 10 a GOOD gys-
tenn Of free schools. Stewart county needs
but such system, with increased facilities
for transportation, to become one of the
wealthiest in the State. Arailroad from
Hopkinsville, through Lafayette, by Big
Rock, down Dyer Greek Valley, crossing
near Dover, interSecting the Memphis,
ClarKsville and Louisville railroad some
where between Stewart Station and Ten
nessee river, then passing through the coun-
ties of Humphreys, Perry and Wayne down
to Florence, Ala, would open up one Of the
richest sections, whether viewed in an ag-
ricultural or mineral point of view, to be
found on the continent. II would be the
most direct route from Chicago to Mo-
BILE, connecting, as it would, by
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad with
the North and South road at Decatur.
With such railroad passing through the
county form northeast to southwest;
another traversing the southern limits of the
county, and the placid Cumberland sweep
ing diagenally from southeast to northwest,
Stewart county would be abundantly sup
Piled with commercial facilities and rush
forward on the course of material prosper
ity at speed that would astonish her own
citizens. Nature has done much for the
county. Her citizens have but to will it to
be wealthy. Some sacrifices will be de-
manded at the outset, prejudice viii have
to be broken down; new ideas will have to
be propagated; fresher activities win have
| to be brought into play. Stewart county is
fortunate in having the minds Of her lead
ing men full of progressive thought. Let
the truth be realized that ''Old things have
have passed way" and new energy will
nerve the hearts and fill the minds of her
people. They will enter upon a new life,
bright with fresh hopes, instinct with intel
Hgence and arched by the rainbow of
bright prospects, that viii induct them in
to the paths of pleasantness, peace and
prosperity. YOUR CORRESPONDENT.