Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-13
MORNING. 49, 1882

and fire-boxes. For many other purposes
1t is also accepted as superior to any grade
OF steel, and the capacity of the works is
tested to meet the demand
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia will pro-
duce IN 1888, from present indications, not
less than 100000 tons of pig iron. How
much of this is consumed in the three
States AT least two-thirds is shipped
elsewhere. Suppose the whole of it were
worked up at home into merchantabIe iron
goods, how would the account stand
Seven hundred thousand tons pig at $40,
$l4, 000, 600; 700, 900 tons manufactured
goods at $50, $40, 900, 600; balance in our
favor, $2S, 100000.
The Dahlonega Mountain Signal says of
the mining interests of that section: 'All
the mines in the vicinity of Dahlonega are
dong as well as when last reported. The
general outlook was never better. The
monthly yield of bullion is constantly in
ereasing, and will as long as new companies
continue to erect new quartz mills. We
now have in this district $50 stamps run
ming day and night, and the probabilities
are that the next year will add as many
| more. Capitalists are now convinced that
there is money for them in the Georgia
gold fields, and that it can be taken from
| the ground at a smaller expense here than
in any section of the Union"
According to census bulletin No 3O1
there are l, 943 establishments in the United
States engaged in the manufacture of agri-
cultural implements, representing a total in
vested capital of $62, 100, 663. The total
number of hands employed is IS, $50, to
whom wages are paid aggregating SIS, 359,-
$40 per annum. The value of the materials
used is given at $31, 531, ITO, of which
amount $1S, O83, SOP represents the value of
iron and steel consumed. The value of the
manufactured product is estimated at 1858, :
$40, 486.
P. Byrne, elevator manufacturer, Nash
vile, says that business in his line has been
brisk: Il put up two steam elevators late
ly for the National Manufacturing Cotton
Mills; one steam passenger elevator for
the Nashville Warehouse and Elevator Com
pany, and gas engine passenger elevator
for Dick q Cummins, of this city. The gas
engine, as motive power for elevators, is
the latest novelty; can be put up in any
store that has gas, and runs an elevator to
perfection at less expense than any other
power you can apply to it."
The Georgia Pine Oil and Turpentine
Works, is one of the growing industries of
huRu5ld, va. Lie UU5luC6SS VI ILLS 06ldD-
ishment is to utalize the products of the
pitch-pine which grows in that vicinity in
abundance. The following is the product
of one cord of good pitch pine: Turpen-
tine, fifteen gallons; pine oil, eighty gal
Ions; pyrolgneous acid, $50 gallons; veget-
able asphaltum, forty-fve pounds; charcoal,
fifty bushels, and finally, infamable gas,
5000 to 1000 feet These materials are all
produced by recently patented process.
It is said that capital of So, 900 is suffi-
cient to start mill that will produce $4,000
worth of these materials a year, with one
man to run the machinery.
Gen. A. Hickenlooper, in his annual adj
dress before the American Gaslight Associ-
alton, particularly urged that efforts should
be made in business-like way to increase
the consumption of gas by bringing into
notice its great culinary and manufacturing
purposes. Every gas stove and every gas
engine in use helps the consumption of gas,
and by the increased convenience aids the
consumption of coal in some form. To
show what great prospects this application
of gas has, he cited the case OF Cincinnati
In that city last year 40, 900, 900 bushels of
coking Goals were consumed, of which
quantity 21,000,000 bushels were used for
steam and manufacturing PURPOSES IL, $780,
600 bushels for household use, and l, $780,,
600 bushels for making gas. 1t will thus
be seen that only four and quarter per
cent. was carburized, while forty-three
per cent. was used for various domestic
purposes.
1t would seem as if the cotton plant will
never have done yielding up its long
concealed elements, capable of being trans
muted into articles of prime value. For
long time only the lint was thought worthy
of special attention then the seed revealed
its untold wealth, and now the stalk is be-
ginning to be sought after for the making of
a cloth, or bagging, which it is said to far
excel that manufactured from jute. AS an
earnest of this we may note the receipt re-
Gently of an order for 1000 pounds of cot
ton stalks. sent to Col Miller Owen by the
Sanford University Fiber Company, of New
of Messrs Ober q Co., through their agents
in Tensas Parish. La. The stalks are
packed in bales, and shipped per steamer.
The New York company is the owner of
patents for extracting fiber from all hbrous
plants, and said to cover not only this coun
try, but most of the South American States
and Europe as we'll The use of the cotton
stalk for manufacturing purposes opens up
possibilities in the cultivation of the great
staple which can scarcely be estimated at
the moment; particularly as it is stated that
the fiber from the stalk can be SO mixed
with other fbers as to produc the most
wonderful results.