The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
W awe County/

WAYNEsBoRoUGH, Tenn, Sept. s, 1873.
This county (Wayne) u, next to Hicks
man, the richest county in Middle Tens
nessee IN iron ore, and some think it
equal 90 Hickman. The Wayne furnace,
FIVE miles from this place, has nineteen
Thousand acres of land, not al of it.
however, ore land, but Astounding with
timber, and it does not contain more than
one tenth of the ore of the county.
Twenty tons of iron ara made there
each day, and it costs thirty Thousand
dollars per annum to transport this me-
tai to the Tennessee river, a distance of
twenty miles, and TO bring back supplies
for the furnace. With a railroad, it
might be dOre for eight thousand dollars
per anRum, making difference Of TWEEN
tyNtWO thousand dollars each year. Iron
ore is not the only Valua BILE mineral here.
| Marble is so abundant near the Tenues ;
see river, that, actually, they used it Nc
| Adamizing a turnpike road near Clifton,
| 10 this county, without knowing at the
| time that it was marble. Bluffs of stone,
| for making hydraulic cement, are num-
! erOus near the river about Clifton. Seven
miles south of this place, there is a res
| gion of country, twenty miles in length,
! and ten miles wide, where there never
| has boen a failure in the fruit crop, and
this year they have an abundance Of
excellent peaches and apples, though
they are very scarce in other places.
Laurel Hill factory, twenty miles from
this place, consumes six hundred bales
Of cotton each year, has eighteen hum
dred spidles, fifty six looms, and makes
twentYNfour hundred yards of cloth each
day. They have to haul in wagons thirty
| al raTIAa unn khATr k4nnaSn=foRipE. q a
heavy item of expense. The factory is
now worth one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars, and, with a railroad
near it, would be worth at least two
hundred thousand dollars. It is owned
and operated by Willis Jones & Son
Lawrence and Wayne counties, on Shoai,
Indian and Buffalo creeks, have enough
water power, never failing to manufac~
ture all the cotton raised in Tennessee
but they cannot do so on account of res
moteRess from market The Memphis
and Knoxville road will remedy this,
v hen it is built. Memphis, with little
energy and enterprise, could command
the trade Of all this country, of which
she now gets none. Col J. NJ s. Ridley
living near Mount Pleasant. in Maury
county, one Of tie most intelligent, en-,
terprisinc and public spirited men 10
/ NJ ddle Tennessee, and one Of the best
and most successful farmers, assured me
that although he found mule raising much
more Pre- Stable than cotton plating, ye
if he had q direct road to Memphis be
would not raise another mule for market
hut raise only hay and ship it to Mem,
phis and West Tennessee generally
! Memphis can get the trade Of Middle
Tennessee. Will she do it Hon. Jona-
than Morris, of this county, owns forty,
, eight thousand acres of land, much of i
iron land, and says he is willing not only
) To paw bis part Of the county subscrip
) ton, bot to give half Of his land to &c
a road to Memphis Win not your peo
pie respond to this noble and liberia
: spirit ? Nothing would so mach benh
t West Tennessee as direct connection
with this region, which has what you 81
much neod. Gaylord will double hi
: force at the Wayne furnace and maxi
= forty tons Of iron a day when this TOat
is Luilt, and this will only be the com
mencsneLS of the iron development il
this county. They now employ tire
y hundred operatives at good wages. Col
> G. w. Boyd, the superintendent, is on
Of the best iron mcn IL the whole country