The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-20

render Chattanooga a great and prosperous
CITY; but when We look at the facilities she
po- -sesses for becoming a vast hive of man
ufacturing industry for supplying the
iimmense region of which she is, in fact.
the focus, by nature of her matchless sys-
| tenn of railroads. we are not assuredly
wrong in predicting that she will become.
| in fact, the Pittsburg of the South that she
| assumes to be.
The hills about her that are too broken
| for successful cultivation for purposes OF
agriculture are mines of mineral wealth.
Wit in such easy reach of Chattanooga
| that they may be delivered here at from
| 81 rs to r2 % per ton, are inexhaustible
deposits of fossiliferous hematic iron ore,
| which usually yield an average of near
| fifty per cent of pig iron in the blast furn-
aces of this city. From this ore is made
| the excellent car-wheel iron of Alabama,
East Tennessee and Georgia smelted i'm cold
blast furnaces with charcoal for fuel.
Brown hematite or limonite iron ore in
quantities t. last until doomsday, may be
had delivered at this point for So 30 per
ton.
Limestone containing SO per cent of
pure carbonate of lime is delivered at the
furnace at SO cents per ton. Some of the
limestone beds are fine dolom1te with Is
to 27 per cent. of carbonate of magnesia and
suited for use in the Thomas & Gilchrist
process OF dephosphorizing iron.
Gen. Wilder, who. in the geology and
mineralogy of this State and section, is
doubtless the best informed man in Ten
nessee if not in the United States in an
address delivered last February before the
Iron, Coal and Manufacturers Associa-
ton OF Chattanooga, says with reference TO
the above resources: "All these great
combinations Of good and cheap materials
for the successful manufacture of iron at
Chattanooga, combined with the ia
cilities for collection and distribution,
insure to the CHATTANOOGA mineral
district a prosperous future. and furnishes
the reason why merchantable pig iron has
been made as low as So per ton. From
him We obtain the following table of the
yield of the various ores at the Chattanooga
Blast Furnace:
Oltewah red ore, So per cent; half moon |
or Tennessee River ore, 40 to 30 per cent;
gansviile. GA. red ore, 33a per cent. j.
Rising Fawn hard red ore 33L per cent; |
Rising Fawn soft red ore, so per cent; |
Woodstock, Ala, brown ore, 4S per cent. /; |
Pryors Station. Ala, brown ore, 4s to 80 |
per cent; lockwood red ore, 48 to so per
cent. Coal is abundant within easy reach /
of this place and of excellent qualify but |
needs development in the opening of ad-
ditional mines. A semi-cannel coal that
p ssesses much the quality of the Indiana
and like it burns with a bright |
flame leaving little residuum is obtained in
the adjacent ridges but the variety that is
most abundant is bituminous coal SINH
lar to the Ohio and Pittsburg richer in
carbon than those generally offered in Gin
cinnati, unless possibly the YougEiogheny
excepted.
1t has less sulphur than the Camel coal
mined here, although somewhat more
mixed with slate than the latter. It cokes
we'll and appears to possess every advantage
for manufacturing purposes that the best
does. II is sold at the mills, we
are informed, at about 81 per hundred
bushels. although its price. screened and de-
ivered to families, is about 15 cents per
oushel.