The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-02-14
Az INTERESTING LETTER FROM
DTCKTONN.

IOnkln) are working with economy
and prudence that reflects great cred
it upon the management Of the diff
terent mines.
The ore from the many mines is Of
q superior quality compared to any
thing from the same nine in any
quantities heretofore mined for sew
eral years past,
Ever department seems inspired
with more energy, than even before
: evinced and vigorous exertions are
being made by the Supt. Mr.. Duyall
to reduce all departments of the Co.'S.
works to the best and most practice
basis of operation. lie personally
inspects all the different processes
that the ores undergo from the time
they are dclved from the bowels OF
the earth, until they are converted into
refined copper ready for market, and
he knows the exact amount that each
and every process which it passes
through cost in dollars and cents, ut
the end OF the week, month, year &c.
The Ducktown Of 1873, little rescm-
bles tie same place in 1867 0 and II,
any person not acquainted with the
mining interests of Ducktown can
hardly conceive the amount of capital
invested in this great industry that
furnishes employment either directly
or indirectly to something like eight
hundred or a thousand employees at
as fair wages as any other industry or
corporation pay for the same different
kinds of employment.
The ore smelling department un
der the supervision Of Mr.. w. j..
Witt, is smelling more ore than usual
and producing sufficient quantities of
first matte to keep the matte furna-
ces in constant operation, a thing
that has never been done previous to
the last few weeks. (Guess hr. RAJ
neg wiH hare to put another new cyl
inder in his refner.)
If some you Clevelandites wishe
to learn how to refine copper, just pay
Ducktown a visit and take lessons
under Mr.. Rainey he can teach you
the business thoroughly. 1t will not
take you more than twenty years to
become u first class reiner &c. From
the amount of refined copper you can
see made daily at the Isabella smelt
ing works a stranger upon bis first.
visit to the refinery would imagine he
had discovered "a little Lake Supe-
rior) as far as manufacturing of cop
per &c. is concerned.
The Co. experienced considerable
difficulty and annoyance last winter
upon the account of not receiving
charcoal in sufficient amounts to con-
tinue their smelling operations all
winter on as large a scale as was de-
sired. No such troubles have existed
this winter, although we have had an
unusually wet, rainy and muddy sea-
son, and the consumption of charcoals
have been greater than that of any
previous winter IL tie history of
Ducktown.
Some parties took a lease upon
Mr.. Erby Boyd's mining property
adjoining the lands OF j. E.. Raht
but after drawing water several
days became discouraged and
abandoned the enterprise owing
TO the amount Of time, labor, &c,
it would take to put the mine on
a paying basis.
Our notice has been called to
an article published in the Cleve-
land Banner from the pen ofDel-
ia, its Ducktown correspondent.
He accuses us OF havingno sense.
We can't help that, but would
not feel at any disadvantage to
have our Uranium compared to
Delta's before a board Of phrenol
ogists. We lay no claims to the
scholarly achievements, qualifi-
cations, &c, that is possessed by
Delta. lie speaks, according to
his own statement, Greek, Latin,
Hebrew, and perhaps a little Irish;
is a graduate of Oxford. Cam,
bridge or Eaton; was once secre-
tary Of Her Majesty Queen Vic
toria's), Governor-G General Of In.
dia. In the name Of Jupiters and
Gods, was it not a hard gear ~ Sec
r%etarieS when such material was in de-
mand Now when we attempted
to criticise his article in the Ban
ner, little did we suspect
that we were challenging
a man of patriarchian ancestry, one
who had associated with the high
Dignitaries of the British Empire
and the mighty potentates of the
earth-who upon account Of his
lluency in speaking the dead Ian
guages was solicited to go with
DR.. Scheilman to Pompeii to
translate the inscriptions upon
the great monolith discovered
there in their scientific eXcava-
tons after the lapse Of several
hundred years. No one ever
thought that there was a man Of
such wonderful notoriety and en-
inent attainments up here, cut
off from the haunts Of patriach-
ianism, a man whose smile was
coveted and sought for, a face
and form that never had an equal
since the days of ADoN1s. How
he must sigh for the companion.
ship and splendor of the days Of
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