The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-07-23
AMUSING.


If you want to know all about home
matters, take a city paper. In it you
will find the exact truth, furnished by
anonymous correspondents. For in
stance, the Cincinnati Commercial of last
Friday contained letter headed Letter
from Jackson county" but it is dated at
Chillicothe. 1t contains vast number
of news items which are really new in
this locality. For instance, it says:
The development of the iron interests
was commenced in the town of Jackson
fourteen years ago by the construction of
a furnace known as the Orange The
three gentlemen engaged in it, Messrs.
Davis, Kyle and Robbins, were unfortu-
nate in not having money enough to car
ry forward the business after the furnace
was completed They quarreled-the
house fell and Kyle, without a cent in
his pocket, bought it in at ten thousand
dollars, and eight months afterward sold
it for cash at twenty thousand dollars.
This furnace, we are told, has since that
time made dozen fortunes, and is in
full blast to-day Here was the COM
mencement, and to-day we have, in addi-
ton to the above, which use nothing but
coal in its native state for the smelling of
ore, the Globe, Fulton, Star, Tropic,
Huron, Milton and Wellston, all within
radius of seven miles. The average
daily yield of these furnaces is twelve
tons per day, and, we believe, without
exception they are all in full operation.
Beside the above named furnaces there
are several which use only charcoal.
But timber is so scarce, and the quality
of iron so little superior to that made
| ,~,R Ia oil
that they are fast disappearing, and in a
very short time what is known here as
charcoal iron will only be thing of the
past.
We could scarcely have conceived it
possible to have crowded that many mis-
takes in that number of lines. Kyle new
er owned cents worth Of stock in Or
ange Furnace. Capt. Davis and Alanson
Robbins never lacked money to carry on
any business in which they engaged
They and Mr.. Kyle never quarreled, and
that wonderful purchase and sale by
Kyle is all mistake. Mr.. Kyle, instead
of not having cent in his pocket, has
always been in comfortable circumstan
ces.
l 4AOA AOeE b41S 4AuACAduoSA tClA GAd
eight furnaces are all in full operation
and averaging twelve tons per day. The
truth is, only four of them are in blast
while Huron is not yet finished, ane
Wellston has scarcely been commenced
And then the statement that the char
coal furnaces are fast disappearing, will
; be news in this county, where only on
has yet disappeared, and that severa
years ago, and its place has recently 5eel
more than supplied by the erection o
Ophir Furnace.
, This wonderful correspondent close
as follows:
: II. L. Chapman, President of the Firs
J National Bank of Jackson, is one of ou
most enterprising men, and has don
{ more to make our natural wealth know
abroad than all others put together. II
! is largely interested in the iron trade
More anon. FRANKNESS.
Mr.. Chapman is an enterprising citizen
and has done his share in making know
abroad our natural wealth; but he will
t hardly claim that during the few year
that he has been in jackson he has don
! more in this direction than has beel
done by all others combined.