The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-01
.uHf4ENE uTa .rFkbt II
Primitive Character of the Iron
Works ofNoRth Carolina -
aa.E TENN esSpeI eGj 10

Il. and having -tOund-it-theiF -sma
Cd charcoal furnaces. aud bioomari,
Is Is soon followed, 10 States in til
Union, have Blown i in their earl
is history more intelligent apprecf:
: ton Of the valHo-of aEirehIhdustr
he than North CagoIinaapd Tennessee,
!. : and mono have Been>rnoto prompt t
; establish it. It IS true thet their air
p has been mainlylt9 slPpIy, their ow
= wants, but this 5 praiseworth,
motive, and people are not to b
a found fault WITH II 4 lack 0fCcapita
d and Of means Of 'tr4an1sportation pre-
T vents them from cultivatirg a com
mereial spirit.A II TFA Tr1C
The enterpli4Iof tic carly iron
workers ofwestcru North, Caroline
and East Tennessee assumes a pic.
turesque aspa2sMhca-z -ziewed in con.
nection with tie primitive methods
Of fmangi3c,qfe5 which employ,
ed by hem 2g5 whisrJthek haze
continued TO Use gatiil- the, present
day. Thor charcoal farnaees we're
blown through one tuyere with
wooden "tubs" adjusted to Elttaeh-
meuts which were slow ink motion,
and which di! not make the best
use OF the water power that-lFas
often iusulacio..'y applied BY noun
tain streams OF limited volume. A
ton or two OF iron o days in the
shape Of pigs or castings, was a GOOD
yield. The llejnaEes, with scarce
" an exec L d, were furnished
with the trompe, q Ratcr-bIast1a
smalIstrea,n it's ! itabIdfausgp-
plying both Tie Blast for The fires
and the power which tumed he
y 5F... .-.. t| .FJ.ffF.$se@ se?:sG:: @:st:: /:
two t'ry5rOlN abA4otbor--iils,fi il,f
PTove4ea.s .t-,4e charcoaEiryn M
dustrY thess-pac3. o knew bnt little. |
and that .i.,,e Eas mainly hcSrsay. |
They wc@- pioneers and foqti9s-
men IN every scass from theigreat |
world OF Invention and prosress |
they were shut cut by nouHtains |
and streams aaG hundreds of miles
Of uusubJuel forest Is isto fthch. |
credit, and it should not bs fergot |
ten, that they diligently sought to
utilize the resources which they |
found under tl1eif-f,ect; .andthat they 4
werenot fdiscoprageAt fromFunder-
taking q di'&sfl 5sstsls4beeause the
only means for its accomplishment
of which they had any knowledge
were crude IN conception and,goffen
difficult to.obtain. % i
1t is a curious fact that the daring
men who pushed their way into tho
wilds of western North Carolina and
East Tennessee in the last country |
and who sci mp their srhall furnaces /
and bloomarics whom forts yet took
the place Of hamlets, founded aa iron
industry which stil, retaips many of
the primitive faatares t6at at first
characterized it. There-sre to-day
in Tennessee about Two Dozen
bloomaries, and ih.North- Carolina a
dozen or more which are in ali lire-
spects tho. caunroEfarts ii constrtc-
of those WHICH tho piofieers estab-
ished. Nearly evgry one of these
DIoomarie4 is to-ds.y blown with the
-rompe, ana in aH other RESPECTS
hey arc Us barrea- Of modern APP
,lianccs as-H the worlds iron in-
lustry anttho uerid itsSIf had dstood j.
till for hundred years:9 They are
itfully operatet-aas tic wants of !
he neishboGng 15rmeTs-Spd black
miths REQUIRE, orsss the supply. of
water for the troF5Eos and hammers
viii permit They furnished their
nei gh0mhoods- with iron 8
)r horsoshoas, swagohstires, and +
teeth. ArsJ. b. Killebrew =
fNashviile,informs Us that Though :
ut the COUNTIES Of Johrsen and Car
En-, in Tennessee, where many of :
hese bloomaries are located, bar y
'On is used as currency He says \
Iron is taken in exehanE for I
hoes, coffee, sugar, calico, sail, and :
and 7ether articles used by :
be people oGthe country. 1t IS con =
.dered a legaL1ondeE5n the settle 2
ient Of alfdees aag giabilities THIS q
ar iron, afleE.being collected by the D
s ent eat and sold in p
knoxville, Bristol, and other points a
a;pafltet s.sslaatE r
Fac oSplanation af ahesurEiyal,in Is
his day and in tliis ehnhtryof priln- +
i've methedsrof making iron which ~
ave long been abandoned by pro- isl
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