Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-01-22
IRON ORES

and other ores. The three great class
es of iron ore are exhibited by great
er number of specimens than will be
found in any other collection-gather-
ed up to fully illustrate all the shades
and sub varieties existing under each
variety, varying In richness and value,
but chiefly made so large to present
the numerous localities where they are
found. The Hematites are found
dyestone or fossil, on the eastern side
of the Cumberland Mountains, crop
ping out, however, on the eastern side
of Sequatchie Valley, other varieties
in the Alleghanies, or contiguous to
them, as in McMinn. The fossil ores
are royal purple with metallic lustre,
filled with small fossils. The hema-
tites of the lower silurian occurring in
McMinn are a dull Spanish-brown
color, without metallic lustre. These
are the chief characteristics, and Of
these there are numerous specimens
representing almost every locality in
Tennessee where it is found.
The magnettes are found in two
counties-Carter and Johnson-but in
large quantities = immense deposits.
There are some very fine specimens of
this ore, contrasted with the Iron
Mountain ore, to which they are supe-
rior and superior to the Lake Superior
ores. These are said to be the best ores
in the world for making steel.
The limonite ore someties, errone-
ously, called brown hematites, are
found in all iron counties, chiefly how
ever In the Alleghanies, or Unacas, and
in the Middle Tennessee iron belt.
These occur in great variety. There
is the shot ore of Carter county so cell
ebrated for making car wheels, the
rich, bog ore of johnson, which has
been a iavorite with blacksm;ths for
fifty years, on account of its tenacity
and strength, and long before the build
| ing of roads was carried out on horses
| In bent bars-the compact ore of Cooke
county. which accompany Of Engllshmen
are now preparing TO work, occurring IN
immense deposits around Kingston,
which will in time be second Pitts
| hure Then crossing to the western
| iron belt. we find the plate ore of Law
renee. SO long and successfully worked
by VanIeer, a pioneer in iron; the
honeycomb, the pot, pipe, needle, black
lack and kidney ores of Montgomery,
Stewart, Dickson, Hickman, Perry,
Humphreys, Lewis, Morgan and De-
catur. from which the celebrated Ten
nessee boiler iron has been made for
60 many years, and which surpassed
the Scotch iron in making sugar ket-
ties. and unequalled for wagon tires.
There are fine specimens OF all these
ores. There is fragment OF large
pot-an immense iron boulder of two
or three feet In diameter, which con-
tains large fossil coral, called in geo.
| logical jargon, htsostrotioB ooaadense,
of the variety Of fossil found on the
| Cumberland hills, telling Of ages ago
when the iron enclosed the already fos-
sill and silicifed coral, and ages beyond
that when the coral was living ami
NAL frame. There is another pot en-
closing silicious boulders, held Moose
congIomerate by ferreginous clay
There is an ore which occurs in Greene
county largely mixed with oxide q
manganese from which spiegeleiseg i.
made. the base Of BesseIner steel
This GRE fuxes itself without the use
of lime. There is also the curious
needle ore which breaks into spienLoe
J There Is black band which is used IL