Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-08-11
MAEUfAcrURER's ASSOCIATION.
Pcomneat c,t.zea fayocs the pcoieet.

4 Prominent Citizen Fayors the PROJECT.
To the CHRONICLE:
When completed, our second rail-
road will open up to the mercantile
trade of our town, sections of coun-
try which we have hitherto never
reached, and which our wid-awake
business men will be sure to avail
themselves of. But the addition to
trade, which is expected to accrue
from these sources, cannot materi-
ally increase our population or our
capital, since the men and money
already employed in trade here, is
quite sufficient to supply any new
demands which the railroad will
bring about. 1t is therefore, to sec
ond your movement, advising the
immediate organization of a
MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION,
and to urge its importance upon the
consideration of our people, that
this communication is written.
Our immediate vicinity has not
proven very attractive to the skill
and capital from abroad, seeking Il
new location for agricultural pur-
suits, and were it even practicable
to convert the hills and valleys of
Montgomery county into bluegrass
pastures, equal to those of Ken
tuckys' most famous parts, we still
could not hope 10 'surpass, in size
and importance, her most charm
ing interior towns. AS it is, tobac-
co has been and will continue for a
while yet, to be the basis of the
| trade of
OLD GAINESVILLE,
and she has well nigh reached the
height of prosperity derivable from
that source, whilst the best lands
for this product, naturally tributary
to us, belong to Kentucky; and
whether foolish or not, it Is none
the less true, that State jealousy has
prevented us from reaping the full
benefit of that neighborhOod. This
jealousy will yield to nothing short
of superior facilities for reaching a
superior market, both of which con-
ditiOns will be fulfilled by the COM
pletion of the railroad now under
construction. But this will be by
no means sufficient. 1t is to factO-
ries, and to factories alone, that w G
must look for a commercial new
birth, and the rapid development
of the elements of wealth lying Il II
around us, when sturdy aud stall
wart
NEW CLARKSVILLE
shall make the hills of the old town
echo the thud of trip-hammers, and
glow with the heat of furnaces,
foundries, machine shops, etc. To
build and operate factories, anoth err
condition is required of the railroa d +,
and it is this, that it lay fuel down
here as cheap as it is placed else
where. Upon the two items Coal
and Coke, all who have given the
subject serious thought, are con-
WINGED that the future of GAINESVILLE
depend. These acquired, an illimi-
table field is here open to enterprise
however varied, and to capital how
ever large. That this railroad will
place within our reach both coal
and coax, cheap and plenty, is firm
ly believed by those who have care
fully Investigated the subject, and
before the contractors shall have
reached Hopkins county with their
line of rails, it will be Il demOnstra
ted fact, that the Goals No. and
No. II, are coking Goals nearly
equal to the Connelsville, Pa, STAN
dard. With these materials avail
able on the one side of us, and the
almost countless mountains of iron
ores Immediately on the other, to-
gether with vast forests of valuable
timber yet unused to the sound of
the wOOdman's axe, and containing
several varieties of oak, hickory,
ash, maple, walnut, beech, cherry,
poplar and others, from which all
kinds of vehicles, agricultural inn
plements, household furniture, rail-
road cars, steamboats,, ETC., may be
constructed. Kentucky's coal and
coke, meeting right here, the unsur-
passed iron ore and timbers of Ten
nessee, on stream navigable by
large steamers the greater portion
of the year, it is quite apparent
that the
MANUFACTURING CAPACITY
of GAINESVILLE is far beyond the
power of any man to compute. Vir-
ginia has her Richmond, Kentucky
her Louisville, Tennessee her Chat
anOoga and Alabama her Birming-
ham, but not one of them has an
advantage as manufacturing cen
ter, that GAINESVILLE may not equal,
whenever the Indiana, Alabama &
Texas railroad shall have been fin
ished to point fifty miles north,
and to like distance south of it.
We may be sure that the vast
wealth rapidly coming within our
reach cannot be realized without
effort, and that such opportunities
as we will not or cannot seize upon,
will be gladly taken by others.
Many are seeking to invest their
capital in just such ventures, as this
locality, IA few months hence, will
make so desirable, and since we
have neither capital nor skill sutli-
cient to operate our entire field, let
us inform others that we have
enough and to spare for all the
means and intelligent labor they
may be able to command. We
ought to show to the distant capt.
talist and artisan that here on the
banks of thu Cumberland river any
commodity may be made of iron,
from the smallest nail tG the largest
steam engine-of wood, anything
from a shOe-peg to a seven-boiler