Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-22


apprsnensise especially Wis., our 70 000.-
600 Of people S. and Fissa-yis with the repre-
sehtadyess ofltbe world. In men, women,
lnsnutactufes, arts, produces, science and,
everything that IS practicable, America will /
4 not be surpassed. Entering upoa The his
tory of the country, the speaker said we
had butt more railroads than all the gcrld. /
BE gave beautiful description of
This continent. He referred : to. the
Inventions of the American people
during the present century naming among
them the telegraph, cotton gins, 'treshers,
4 navigation by steam, etc. The greatest
invention however, Of American genius was
the Constitution of our country, and al
though its authors had not obtained copy-
right and this invention had not been used
4 as greatly as others, still it was becoming
1 popular and destined to be adopted through
out the world. But the question was should
Tennessee take MEASURES to be represented
in the Centennial Exhibition He thought
she should be, because she had the greatest
resources which are the least known.
| Men were not prone to believe all they |
heard or read of ia newspaper. We must |
| let people see our resources in order to con- |
| vince them of our wealth and greatness as I
a people. he once went to California and |
saw beet which was of unusual size. |
This beet be saw three years afterwards |
when he returned there. 1t looked like a |
red forked stump and weighed 1873 pounds. |
| We must "show our hands" in order to LEI |
| the people Of the world see what we have, |
and then the Inducements to immigration |
will not be unheeded. He illustrated the |
folly of thinking Tennessee a pauoer
State by referring to the vast amount,
of undeveloped minerals, the coal itself |
being sufficient to make her rich and /
prosperous State. The State must show its
| assets, so that the capitalists will know how
much to advance us 10 money. We should |
be represented in the Centennial EXPOSE
| ton at Philadelphia, so as to let the world
and capitalists know what are our natraI /
resources, which knowledge would amount !
to guarantee when our people wanted to
have money invested by men from other
States in Tennessee S There is iron
in twenty-eight counties in Tennessee.
Yet this is not known outside of our State
which has equal manufacturing advantages
with PennsylVania, the only difference
being that the people Of the above State
expend millions annually for its manufae-
ture. Tennessee iron first became known
in 1881, when it was tested at the Frank
lin Institute and pronounced equal in duct
Utility and durability to the Swedish iron.
The Louisiana sugar planters formerly
used kettles made in Scotland. In 1926 the
Messrs. Stacker commenced the MAUI /
facture of sugar kettles at their furnace in
Robertson county, Tennessee. Since then
Tennessee kettles have supplanted the use
of Pennsylvania and Scotland kettles on
Louisiana sugar plantations.
Since steam was introduced on the Mis-
sssippi in 1872, there have been 800 boiler
explosions. Not one, however, made of
Tennessee iron has ever been known to
have exploded. The speaker paid high
compliment to Col. Geo. T. Lewis, former.
IL Of GAINESVILLE, but now of McMinnville.
This gentleman having been engaged in
the iron busin ess for % years prior to the
war, knew all about the merits and essen
tial qualities Of the Tennessee iron. Ex-
cept the iron mined on her western noun I,
tain ranges, Pennsylvania had to bring all
of her iron manufactured from Michigan,
Tennessee and other distant States. Ten
nessee has her own iron in exhaustless
quantities. r
Gen. j. T. Wilder, an Eastern gen.
tleman and a Major General in the
late war, was so well pleased with our State
that he located here, and is now operating !
the Roane Iron Works at Rock Wood. He
makes no conceslment of the fact and ,
writes it to the papers In Pittsburg. He
states that often times there is found in one
hill, coal, iron and limestone, materials from :
which iron is manufactured. All of these
are together, making, as il were a kind !
of mineral sandwich, 8 streak ofiean and
streak of fat, realty for use at pleasure. {
Tennessee Of all States in this Union
ought to be at this exhibition. She owes
it to her posterity, to her interest, to her adj
Yantages, and she should be represented J
under the most favorable circum-
stances. The iron ore of various
States are to be represented there; they are
to be tested, labelled and preserved, This a
will determine the value Of ore in the !,
S la.es and be the index of their mineral
wealth. Up to this time England has man g
ufactured one half of the iron used in the =
world; making annually 10000 tons. The !
subject is commanding attention il Egg Y
land, an elaborate report being made by a /,
committee (Soil CommissiOn) composed of +
engineers and scientific men. The coal
mines have been worked 369 feet below the
surface. This fact has alarmed Parliament,
for in England coal has long been
king. While We have heard Of "Old
King Coal" it seems that this old v
black monarch is about 10 aodicate.
The committee think the mines can be fl
worked 1000 feet below the surface, q
statement not relied on as to its practical a
utility, because there is no means yet
known for ventilsting the mines at that d
depth. This work of mining will either go
to Russia or TO the United States. Russia et
had no coal and did not use it for tie man
ufacture of iron. They had no trial by Jury, jU
and spoke different language from that of
England, where the practical miners aud b,
skilled artisans must come. In America
the language was the same, religious belief n
and the people free. In
but few inducements N
could be offered for skilled ii
artists to locate there, because
in that State there is not the iron ore ne in
cessary, though abundance of coal. Ten
nessee has both coal aud iron ore, and al y(
ready Gen. Wilder, man from beyond the
0hio is manufacturing various kinds OF b
iron, among it railroad iron in Tennessee. til
The inducements in Tennessee for the man as
lfactuTe of iron are great. As soon as the Gu
advantages of this State become known fc
Norehern capitalists will be attracted TO fr,
Tennessee. The speaker referred to the m
money capitalists have already made in m
iron in several counties in
bis State since the war. English agents were
low prospecting for eligible sites for furnaces
n East Tennessee. He had seen where -
lily American Locomotives had been order y
ID beyond the ocean. 1t seems that il spite u
If the want Of atteDtiou being given our
State, its mineral resources and natural ad- 7.
7antsges ARG becoming known and attracts ~
ng sttention. The marble OF Tennessee vi
q quantity and quality are unsurpassed. I"
The Tennessee marble he thought in its
beauty was Git TO build templ3 for David, u
md in quantity sufficient to construct an &
'Appian Way from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean. We Should have map
howing our mineral deposits, streams and D.
Our ores, etc, should be ex- =
libited at fairs and expositioas. "a
t is well known fact that
more q cranes and wild geese fly over
than any other State in the T.
Union; Why? Because these aerial naviga- i,
ors al ways take the s'shortest cut, !" and Sc Il.
eet the most direct route. The railroad
ngineers are taking the hint from the birds, "a
nd because of the central geographical WI
osition of Tennessee you can hardly pass J"
EN,ok to lonk