Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-03

for 70 anufaclurlDg soaps, axle grease, cam
dies, and all articles Of manufacture Of which
cotton. seed oil may enter az an Ingredient.
The capital stock ia SIS, 900.
THE woods most priced for furniture-
Common: beach, birch, cedar, cherry, pine
and wildwood. The best: amboyna, black
ebony, cherry, mahogany, maple, oak, rose
wood, satinWood, sandslwood, chestnut, cedar,
tulip, walnut, zebrawood, ebony and ash.
A BED Of coal six and a half feet thick,
two and half miles long and half mile
wide has been opened on Peaks creek, Pd-
laski county, Va, about two and a hall miles |
from the Norfolk and Western railroad. |
Fossil iron ore is found on the same tract.
A NUMBER of Euglish iron and steel man |
ufscturers have written that they will visit |
1enDessee during the latter part of the pres |
ept month with view to investigating the |
natural advantages of the State for the man |
ufacture of iron and steel and cotton goods |
The stockholders of the Adams Cotton
Factory, OF Montgomery, Ala, have Just de-
cIded to increase their capital siock from
sec, 900 to 100000, the $4,000 thus raised
to be expended in putting in looms for man
ufscturlng duck, osnaburgs, checks, sheet
ings, etc.
The Daisy Coal Company own 5000 acres
of coal land on Walden's Ridge, Tenn.
6OSN
is intended to develope the property more
extensively. They are on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad, only seventeen miles from
Chattanooga.
The lumber trade OF the South never be-
fore hss been 80 prosperous. The consump-
ton of lumber, timber, ETC., for building
purposes has fully quadrupled In the last
two years. Great tracks Of timber lands are
being bought up and developed by Northern
skill and capital.
ATLANTA, Ga, has attracted considerable
attention of late by the rapidity with which
Its manufactures have grown and the sue
cess that has attended all The efforts put forth
| in thi, line. During the past year the real
property OF the city has increased more than
$4,000, 600 in value.
A SYNDICATE has obtained control of some
| l5o 600 acres of land near Covington, Va,
| on which there are immense beds OF iron ore,
\ said to be exhaustless, and arrangements are
being completed for reaching the tract by 8
| stand ard. gauge railroad 10 connect with the
| Chesapeake and Ohio.
| ECONOMY has led to tree planting on an
| extensive scale in the far North and North
west. Belts of timber are taking the places
| Of pine fences along the portions OF the rail-
| roads where some barriers must, OF necessity,
be maintained ag ainst snow-drifts. The new
| forest does its work well.
The new sugar refining company at New
| Orleans have purchased q large square of
/ ground in the rear of the United States Gus.
| tomhouse TO erect their buildings on. The
plans are being m'de and will be ready for
delivery in few days, and can be had from
J. w. Wallis, the president.
THE wood most priced for mschiney and
| mill-work-Frames: ash, beech, birch, pine,
elm, mahogany and OAK. Rollers, ETC.: box,
lignum viie, mahogony and service tree.
Teeth OF wheels: drab tree, horn beam, locust
and service tree. Foundry patterns: alder,
pipe, poplar, walnut and mahogany.
| A COTTON SEED oil mill is successful en-
terprise at Selma, Ala. 1t is known as the
Central Oil Mills and Fertiliser Company
| The fertilizer m ade by the concern is a good
one, consis ing principally OF cotton seed
| meal, Scid Of phosphate, coitou-seed hull
asheT, etc. 1t is sold at s28 per ton there.
THE first shipment of Southern grain in
| bulk ever cent from South Atlantic port to
| Europe, was made on Tuesday OF last week
! from Savannah, Ga, where new elevator OF
the Georgia Central railroad put 10000
bushels of Tennessee corn on the British
| steamer Msrec, which cleared the same day
for Liverpool.
| THE hub and spoke factory at Shelbyville,
| Tenn, will shortly go into operation. Mr..
| B. P. Wrathmore, its president, though re-
siding in Manchester, Tenn, contemp a!es
consolidating the hub and spoks factory i'll
| that town with the above, and carrying %
the business extensively, The company has
a capital of $4,000.
WEssoN 4 PERSONS, of Bogue Chito, Miss,
are erecting new saw. mill near that place,
| TO have a capacity of 5000 feet day.
They are also extending an iron track two
miles and a half to reach the new mill.
They will have six miles and half of iron
track running from the Illineis Central FAIL
road at Bogue Chito to their Two mills.
IT Is claimed that New Orleans formerly
took $2,000,000 of Pittsburg coal annually.
Now she receives lees than half that amount,
the remainder coming from the coal fialds
continue to demand four cents, and one OF
the large operators has made up his mind to
go 10 the mountain. He has already taken
up 5000 acres in Alabama.
THE Chattanooga Tenn Saw Works have
m ade hfty-three-inch twelve-gauge circular
saw for Georgia firm, to run on two-inc.i
feed. Hughes & Marquet are using one oil
the same firms make, sixty.eight inches,
No. s gauge, which is giving entire saiisfac-
tioD. These are among the largest sizes
made, and their success speaks we'll for the
saw-making enterprise in that city.
THE country around about Talladega
Ala, is finely timbered, and its forests fur.
nsh a variety OF growth. Yellow pine is
abundant, which supplies the best quality Of
lumber. Oak of almo.t every known variety
is TO be found, also hIcko. ) and OCCASIONAL
. groups of yellow poplar and black walnut
red cedar. ash, elm, beech, locust and cherry
, are found, but not in such ABUNDANCE.
Tr- Art;s1., e TO- h.
statement that there is an iron furnace il
Tennessee, with an ofiioe at Nashville, repre-
senting an investment of $134 600, which
will divide as net pref for 1852 over 500,
, 600. This is about seventy -five per cent. OF
: capital invested, and is q very good shown:
: we presume, even in a Safe possessing III,
natural advantages of Tennessee, for tn,
cheap manufacture OF iron.
THE American Mochinist says that one O
l the best means OF reducing the consumption
> OF coal under or in a steam boiler is thu
keeping of a complete daily record Of thu
amount burned. This does not imply tina
the saving is made by p oviding check oil
. the firem an, but rather that it enables him Il
, gauge different manipulation by the exsc
7 results obtained; in other words, it afford
!, him a reference OF the utmost use in edu
eating himself in his duties.
A NUMBER OF nanus are al work on MI
B. PitzsI's mountain place, near Selma, Ala.
looking for iron ore. They are finding it, anC
| we learn that Mr.. Pitzer has been Offered
S25, 900 for a half interest. We also leaf
that Mr.. Henry Stevens has been offere,
$780, 900 for his iron farm, and that Mr.. Z
3 E. Trout has refused $3.50 an acre for hi
farm. Things are moving around Selms
ana it looks as if there is 10 be real boon
there during the coming year.
: The novelty of the week is the shipping O
some three trains Of pine lumber from tn
: Pratt saw-mill at Verbena, Ala, TO Mich
gan. This is 8 peculiar operation, but is be
coming necessary. The Michigan millmel
r have thoroughly recognized that they mus
) seek supplies outside of Michigan, and ar
, coming South in numbers. A Michigan firm
consisting of E. B McGuiness and V. Lay
have taken the Lyles mill, on the Mobile an,
Ohio road just above Mobile and will m ak
, many Improvements and do big business
The Lawrence Suit.
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