The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-29
Richmond { Dauvllle R. R. Exhibit.
Colorilo National Mining Iai Industrial
Exposition.
Office Of JNO. K. HALLOwELI,
eEoIoeIST.
DENVER, Colo, Sept. l, 1883
CAPT. @. c. MCPHAIL,


CoNMIsaloSKR IN CHARGE oF rHE RICHMOND
tD,SvuLE R.IIRoAB EXHIBIT. F"
DENVER, CoLoRADo,
Dear Sir:
You have asked me, as a Color
sdosn, to give you an idea how |
consider your representation of
the mineral wealth Of the South
ern States through which the
Richmond and Danville railroad
system passes, compares with our
mutual products of similar wealth
and to give it to you from a Color
ado standpoint.
Will you be kind enough to
allow me to express myself in
writing, and to add, l highly appre-
ciate the honor you have done me.
To commence-You have tables
covered with masses of iron ores
each pile representing o different
mine or locality of the great Bir.
mingham and Admission iron fields
of Alabama, illustrating an enor.
nous area, of the United States.
From personal work done in
Colorado during the past eight.
cen months, | have made
public boast that within Ger.
tain areas Of this state | had found
mere merchantable iron ore than
is now known in either of the
states of Missouri or Pennsylya.
mia. This Birmingham and Annis-
ton section alone, from tho evi-
dence you set before me, as shown
by your specimens-your personal
statements and the authorities you
give me, some of the most eminent
geologists, far surpass that. Again
in another point, a large iron com
pany has been organized in this
state upon an examination and
written report | made of certain
territory. The principal men of
this company have told me they
could if my data was correct, lay,
down IN the state of Missouri, pig
iron from Colorado for five dollars
per ton less than the Missouri fur
naces could produce it for; but be-
fore meeting you had learned
tn osc figures could be discounted
in Alabama by three dollars pei
ton, thus making for Alabama iron
o profit of eight dollars per ton
against the cost of Missouri iron
With these irons, you show me
pile after pilo Of bituminous Goals
each one representing a Different
seam or widely different locality
from the same great basin, viz: the
Birmingham iron and coal section
of Alabama, and proved to me
both of these elements of wealtl
occur in close proximity. You
experts record analyses of these
Goals, which are only surpassed
in very exceptional cases, an,
such exceptions are known to oc
cur within quite limited areas
Further, that all of the Goals yol
exhibit, make most excellent coke
Take these two items alone 0
your exhibit and We at ono,
take o back seat, for from M
section in the great State of Col
orado can your Birmingham sec
ton of Alabama be duplicated to
day.
That YOU mar not think / am in
clined to do my own State ;
wrong | must state some of ou
advantages. First, we are
mining people and our whole CT
ergy, capital and knowledge ar
bent on that business; second, an
it is the basis of Colorado's pres
ent development. The poores
prospector, who can handle picl
and shovel, has the opportunit
to become a millionaire owing t
the simplicity of our mining law
and the fact that our mineral land
belong to- the United States il
stead of enormous areas, as wit
You, owned by individuals. Thi
last is what gives Colorado he
!. supremacy to-day in the produt
, of precious metals and she wi
4 maintain it for many years t
Q come; but | can also see that |
8 time, as our State gets fully d.
veloped and the profits of sue
f work begins to seek new fields (
:, enterprise, much oft is likely t
!, go to your part of the countr.
Q there to purchase these larg
!. tracts of individual property an
8 with sthe money and knowledg
Q acquired here, attempt to do I'll
0 business ON q vast scale. The
!. will your section outstrip all sim
: lar products of other localities {
J. the United States.
J. --Ns-c-en-
0 Senator Logan says tho ma
Q object of his talk with Sttir
: Bnl was to "make him understau
| that he WASN'T such n hi of q