Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-03-28

han Knoxville? Georgia, In all her
vast territory, has not single or
series of beds or veins Of ore In
sufficient quantity and of good enough
quality upon which to base the erec-
ton of a furnace for making Bessemer
pig; and the coal she must get from or
Tennessee. Neither has
Alabama such ores. Their proudly |
named city of the future, Birming-
ham, may make foundry iron
cheaply, but the railroads of the state
will ever be laid with steel made from
ores beyond her borders. North Caro-
lima, Astounding in the best of Bessemsr
ores, has not the coal, while West VIZ
glnia, teeming with coal, has not the
ore. East Tennessee has both, for
large body of magnetic is In her own
territory, and the famous Cranberry
mines, as well as Gen. Wilders,
are lust over the boundary line.
She has the fine iron ore,
n Ut containing trace OF phosphorus,
she has the best of coking coal, and
Knoxville is the center of the region
producing these requisites, and she
has climate to which the workman
may come, feeling sure that the deadly
M laria will never unnerve his
strength or carry his family to the
graveyard.
While the world is running wild on
Bessemer steel and iron for its produc-
ton, other irons form the great bulk
of commercial transactions, and Knox.
Vile has the best OF advantages for
their manufacture. At Coal Greek
and at Careyville easy access is had to
the vein of fossiiferous red hematite at
the foot of the mountain, and up Pow
ellis valley for many miles it would be
available. At almost all points in that
region it is five feet thick. When the
Knoxville and Ohio road is completed
to the Kentucky line, down Elk Fork,
the immense vein of red fossil ore OF
that section will be reached; we say
immense, for it equals in quantity and
surpasses In quality the much pulled
Red mountain vein, near Birming-
ham, Ala. This ore ia Lot more than
so miles from Knoxville. Coming to-
wards Knoxville, just this side of
Clinton the Knoxville and Ohio road
crosses the ridge called White Oak
mountain; on each side or the road is
the vein of iron ore, and by wagon
and tram ways 1t can be made availa-
BILE for many miles. Nearer still to
Knoxville in Chestnut, Copper, and
Black Oak ridges are deposits of limo
mite of great extent-all, however,
can be drawn to this point. Copper
ridge derived its name from this fact.
| When Ducktown was discovered thr
| surface Of the ground on the lines OF
the veins was covered with character
of limoDite. So In the great copper
excitement wherever that ore of iron
showed people thought they had cop>
| pei LuOuSh AiOdCS A6o uCCh . p III
on Copper ridge in searching for cop
per to build good macsdmized ROAD
from Knoxville to Cumberland Gap.
On the Emery Gap line, at the fooJ
-.iiee will pass ! In f9ss rafah far hYs y
that vein of ore, which at some points
reaches its creates development, being
seven feet thick; pari of this twelve
miles, however, belongs to the DIRK
dale company, and q great part to the
Emery or Wilcox mining lands
Leaving the mountain another vein is
crossed, hardly over two to three
feet thick, but for this charac
ter OF one Of exceptional rich,
uess, then comes the Whit,
Oak mountoin vein, which ia equal
iy as accessible as at Clinton, anC
where the Emery Gap aud Knox
vile road will cross forms two OF
more veins, as it does on the Welckel
lands near KingstOn and at Ooltewah
Coming towards Knoxville, the beds
of limonite in the Copper and Black
Oak ridges become available.
Again, on the liue of the East Ten.
nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
all the way from Bristol to Chatta.
nooga, are beds of limonite of greater
or less extent; some few miles from
he road, but all capable of being
cheaply used in the working OF blast
furnacs for making foundry and mill
nr forge irons at this place. Nesr
0oltewsh, on this road, the While Oak
mountain ia crossed, and why not ship
it here as easily ss to South Pntsburg,
on branch of the Nashville and
Chattanooga. TO South Pitisburg il
IL about sc miles; to Knoxville ga; but
he former is over two roads; 10 the
latter point it would be building up g
own line and city.
Near the city Of Knoxville, adjacent
TO the banks OF Holston river, are large
beds of iron ore, of such extent that
they attracted the attention of capi..
tsIists twenty years ago. They are
easily accessible by boats and the ore
can be delivered at this city
very cheaply. This ore belongs
to the fossiIif1rous red hem
elite family. 1t exists in a
great deposit, at some points over
twenty feet wide, in its general line
olrryiDg the charac ,eristics of vein