The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-11-03
IN THE COUNTRY
BY D. MACKLEY.

had promised my old friend Ambrose Scott Esq.
that would go with him at some convenient time,
where he lived, take dinner with him, and have
pleasant time generally.
On last Thursday morning he came for me, with his
buggy The day was most beautiful clear, still, fall
day.
When got to the bridge over Salt Greek, at the
of the hill of the Court House. noticed that
there was a cuvert being put in the bridge
where the extenton of the Ohio Southern road cross
es the NJ. & G.. road. This extension will soon be
completed to the Erie SHAFT, now owned by Mr. Pick
rel. Then large amounts of coal will be shipped from
Erie, and from the Eureka shaft now operated by j.
A. Long, VIM. Vaughn and others. Large quantities
OF coal being hauled from this shaft to Fulton
Furnace.
We next stopped at Star Furnace. Thomas NJ
Jones, the manager, was there. 1 noticed a large
quantity of native, Jackson county on hand and
pile of Lake This looks like gray sand stone,
with shining sparkling specks In H. Mr.. Jones says
it will yield from 65 TO per of iron, but they do
it for Its rich YIELD but because it toughens
the ron and makes 1T of much better quality. They
about fourth of this to three fourths ma
tive ore. They also had a pile of mill cinder from
Portsmouth This is nearly all iron.
noticed considerable improvement going on in
jamestown. One man was putting a new roof upon
his house. and Scott remarked that he was widower
and fixing up his house, &C. will not tell who
the man
just after we had passed the residence ofWilliam
Kessinger, Scott pointed out to the domicile of
old John Levi. 1t rail pen about three feet bigh
covered with kind of fiat roof and the openings
between the rails stopped with leaves and old
rags. Levi is between seventy and eighty years of
age, and has perhaps not been sober week at time
for fifty years. Sometimes he to the Infrmary
for few days. but they compel him TO wash his face
and put clean shirt, and he cannot stand this
He is the most disgusting and filthy man who ever
lived in this county.
We arrived at Scots half past ten. and had an eX-
cellent dinner at twelve. Then went to VIM. II.
Stephensons sale, where we found large number OF
people, There were many old citizens there, and
among them noticed VIM. Austin, Henry Phillips
Newell Braley, and others.
noticed man with black side whskers and pierre
ing eyes, looking at had not him for more
than thirty years, but recognized him at once
went to him and said "Your name is Alexander"
Eyes," said he, land your name is Mackey.'' He is
brother Caleb Alexander. We had met about forty
years ago at debates at Cross Roads when teach
ing at Cackey's old school house. We talked about
| old times when we had met at these debates, and
where we then met the Westlake boys G. W. Barlow,
| Capt. Bill Evans, and others. Mr. Alexander has
been residing in Kentucky.
saw large kettle filled with boiling soap, stand
ing three stones. inquired for the ash-hopper,
and there it in the old style, the clapboards all
with their ends centering in trough, and the lye
dripping from the end of the trough. Miss Ophelia
Stephenson there, and she introduced me to
| several other young women a Miss Lackey, Miss
Stewart, &C. They said the soap not doing WELL
and asked what allied 1T. told them if the grease
top, to put in lye and continue to boil
1t until the all If too strong, put in
| more grease, &C.
The coal has been tested in several places between
Erie shaft and the new railroad, the Stephenson
farm. hole bored just across the road from the
residence of MI. Scott and the COAL four and halt
feet thick reached at depth 100 feet the
surface. Then mile or more east of that place,
| Samuel McGhee had hole bored and reached the
| same COAL at nearly the same depth. There can be
little doubt that this jackson is continuous from
Star Furnace east. to the Toledo DeIphos and Bur-
lington road five miles in extent This is right
along the old grade of the Hilsborough and Parkers
burgh road, where much work done nearly thirty
wears ago. A railroad from Erie shaft along this
route TO GallpOlls road, would be the best
paying the world. This entire region is as
rich in it is in coal. There dozens of
| teams to be met, going each way loaded with ore
coming to town, and empty going back. Esq. Scott
has been hauling his farm. 1t is alttle over
two miles from Star Furnace, and he can easily make
three loads day. He gets $3.50 per ton for it, and
pays cents per ton for digging it, Large quantities
Star. block lies the tops of the hills
and is easily stripped and raised
Ihad very pleasant day with Scott. He and
have been acquainted for thirty and have all
that time been warm personal friends. He is man
of very good sense, shrewd and sharp, but in some