The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-02-28
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Mr.. EditOr.-l have written you a
letter or two relative to Georgetown
and its value as o farming country.
NO" propose te speak OF the mineral
r%es'urce1, which viii in the future add
TO the wealth Of our particular section.
The Whitenak Mountain VIC will say
'huts' against our town q miles from
The public square) and where is south
ern terminus is cannot tell. Though
l nm told that somewhere below Grays-
vile, Ca, said mountain tapers down
TO u good si>ed ridge, and IA called the
BLACK Oak or some other kind of an
OAK ridge. BE that as IL may, this
mountain runs (making Georgetown
The standpoinD south 20 degrees west,
ana is quite a mountain from here 10
Ooliewall. Up here there are us many
rs three main ridges that make up the
major part of the mountain. The ton
of the most prominent one Is the line
Between the counties of Bradley and
james. Our sectional lines were run
by the course Of this ridge am told.
Mr.. D. {. Upton knows If this l. so, as
he was the surveyor who run thcsr
lines am Informed. B,n the subject
now is the mineral in these mountains.
Each of these main ridges and all the
lIttls hills composing the Whitcoak
Mountain from G%raySville to George
town Is as full of iron ore Us Jennie
WAS of good ~~thoughts-and she was
perfectly full of 'em. In sight of our
town is ledge or strata upon strata of
fossilifcrous iron ore from one TO six
feet thick. In the ridges between
Georgetown and Candas creek are
Il great many streaks or strata of dye
stone orc. West of Georgetown in
what is called the sRlver Ridges are
many deposits of 4 very fine 'hcmititc
orc.sNTlIesc ores must be worked, their
location will soon demand it; they will
be smclted here into...claarcoai pigs or
they will be transported.by lail or tram
roads to chattanooga where they will
meet the coal from the Cumberland Ia
bic lands and be converted into pig
and bar IRON there. VIII most likely
be taken to Chattanooga, though char
coal pigs can be made here for about
sixteen dollars per ton, of the very best
quality made in this country. This ore
will be used before long, too, for the
bulk VI accessible iron ore to Cllatta-
noosa is In this mountain and adjacent
hills. The vast beds CT orc that were
bought and. sold west Of Tennessee riy-
er turned out not to bc there. | know
what am talking about-Chattanoo-
~ isbound to be the Pittsburg of the
South, and this is hound to he an iron
manufacturing district, and the cheap
est and most accessible ole il in the
Whitcoak Mountain. 81,
There are fine beds OF ore in Polk,
McMirn and other counties skirting the
mountain but they are inaccessible for
want of transportation. They are finer
oars than our3, for the nearer you APP
proach the primitive formation the f.
ncr the metals, but they are too far
from market. If lIiwassce river was
naNigallo for steam boats then Polk
county might talk. In addition to the
iron ore there is 4 fine bed of plumbago
in Whitcoak Mountain in three miles
of Georgetown !. also there ia enough
oil in the shale beds of said mountain
to give lights to the State for a thous-
sand years if it WAS extracted, which
is rs easily d%one..as coking coal, for this
ia the process byswhich the oil is ex-
tractcd.
Mr.. Editor, If We had the g~rcenbacks
to back Us and go before us, VIC would
stretch out our Imagination and send
you a picture ofthis country for thirty
miles around that would beat all the
chromas you ever saw. But we will
leave of thinking about what might be
and ought to be and will some time be
and tell what has been.
Last week two negroes attempted to
bore into Mr.. McGill's store at Smiths
y Roads. They were discovered ond
fired into with a doublc-barrclled shot
gun. One load of buck-Shot took effect
in the abdomen of Saml. Mcdonald,
aud the other load (bird or duck shot
hit the other keith by name) in the
legs. Both are caught, and the one
wounded in the abdomen IL likely to
die. ] have been predicting that same
gentleman would lose his life at this
foolishness. Yours, &C., ID.