Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-31

souo miuSIdis 1Tue, one line Oh
railway has penetrated one of our
coal fields, but what is this field to
the many operators, if there is no
deyelopa ent of the iron ore beds of
our vast territory
! The completion Of the Knoxville
and Ohio railroad will encourage the
opening of an innumerable number
of new coal mines. There will be a
demand for this increased supply.
Where will it find market ?
Pittsburg, the iron C ntre of the
United States, in the infancy of her
great in dustrial thrift, had no greater
facilities-excepting the Ohio River
than the city of Knoxville has at
the present. Every mandatory,
though small, established now, is
gain of two in the future This, in
consequence, will bring skilled and
experienced labor, which will be
available at all times.
| The capitalist as well as the me-
chanic takes into consideration the,
health of a section. The workman
considers the health of his family of
first Importance. The loss of income
by sickness or by increased demand
upon his earning, is seriously felt
! IN, fhn- of onrpfnrtQ
education. &c. The manufacturer
profits depends upon the skill and
uubroken labor OF set of hands, or
the continuous running of his ma
chinery.
We have for the advantages of
our city the following points:
LIST. Cheapness - that is cheap
fuel, in time having three points to
draw from, Coal Greek, Winters and
Cumberland Gaps. Material, such
as timber, iron ore, zinc, lead, copper
and a variety of mineral paints
and of wing There is no section
where this Is any cheaper than at
| Knoxville.
End. Position and location-that
is of receiving and distribution-and
of eligible manufacturing sites.
3rd. Health and educa ion, unbro-
| ken labor, lessened expenses, with
an increased bank account, equality
and social standing in the struggles
of life s abilities
Capital under such circumstances
would be remunerated, and labor
will be skiIlful, cheap and abundant.
1t is estimated thai Tennessee has
a coal area equal to that of England,
Scotland, WI and Ireland combin-
ed, and as for quality no section can
equal it.
Tue amount Of coal consumed in
the immediate vicinity of Pitts
burr amounts to over five mil
lion tons annually, and the produc-
ton Of the Pittsburg mining region
is over twelve million tons.
Great Britain produces annually
twenty five million tons. All the
coal mined in the Johnstown district,
Pennsylvania, aggrega,ing $4,000
tons annually, is used at home In the
manufacture of iron, the generation
of steam, and domestic purposes.
The coal and iron district of Ohio
will nearly equal that of Eastern
Tennessee.
During the past year $4,000 tons
of native ores were mined in that
State, valued at $4,000, and that
received from other States, 5000, 314
tons, valued at $685. 26, and the
amount received from other coun-
tries, IA, 1854 tons-making a total
used in that State for smelling pur-
poses, 1856 tons.
There was received at Cleveland
and Ashtabula, Ohio, during the
year 1880, of Lake Superior ores,
l,057,527 tons. These ores bring
from nine to twelve dollars per ton
at these lake ports.
The native ores in Eastern Ohio
yield from five to eight thousand
tons per acre, and royalty ranging
for the same from 80 to 40 cents per
ton.
There are 300 furnaces in Penn>
sylvania, 106 in Ohio, and in Ten
nessee q. In Lawrence and Jack
son Counties, Ohio, there are 35
furnaces.
The annual production of iron and
steel during the past decade has
been doubled. Pennsylvania and
OHIO are the leaders in iron indush
tries. Tennessee ranked fourteenth
in the list of States producing 81, 305
tons in 1870, and IN 1880, 77,1O0,
and still holding her own in the
standing of the States. The greats
est increase has been in Illinois. In
1870 her annual production was
25,761 tons and ranked fifteenth,
now she ranks fourth, with pros
duction of All, 1867 tons.
These figures have been given to
show what has been done in other
sections, and what can be accom-
pllshed In the iron districts of the
South East Tennessee, having a
wider extent of mineral deposit than
the district in Eastern OHIO, where
lO6 blast furnaces, producing, in
1880, CAT ,G6S tons of pig metal,
equal to 5000 full car loads of pig
iron, shows only very small pro
duction of iron. With her vast coal
fields in the Cumberland Mountains,
tue innumerable iron ore veins OF
different varieties, stretching out
from the foot of the Cumberland to
that and into the Smoky range,
aud reaching far into Alabama
and Southwest Virginia, should,
by every possible means, be made
to have record in 1890, equal to
that now presented by the State of
Illinois, where the minera! deposits
are limited and greatly Inferior to
those of East Tennessee.