The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-09-26
ANOTHER STRAW.


The St. Louis Steel Age says that
an important loss in about to occur
to the iron interests of st. Louis by
the removal Of the furnaces Of the
Missouri Furnace Company from
Carondelet to SEINE point in Ten
nessee or Alabama. Let them como.
They will be welcomed by the
Southern people, and no doubt prove
a profitable move. The Steel Age
says: ~
The observer can see that the South
Il learning the value Of its mineral and
farsst wealth that IL fully appreciates
ff,e advantages o. diversified Industries;
rhst il has abandoned its cid, Loose and
careless system of agriculture. Take
the exhibit OF Alabama aa an illustrA-
ten. Her display of wheat, eats, nillel,
grasses, corn and forage plants Wouio
do credit 10 any Northern system OF
agriculture. II has been emily within
the last ten years that the coal and lron
| fields OF Ala5ana have been utilized.
| In 1880 the pir-irvn product Of Alabama
was only 90 $50 tors In 1882 this had
increased 10 225, 600 tons. This year
the Birmingham district will produce
/ 100 coo tons, and the rrst " tAe StAle
.bsut as much more, ahve-fola Increase
| ia Three wears. The total iron produced
| in Alabamrna was 19l ZOO tSus IN 1851,
while il will be close upon 600 ,UOO tons
| this wear. The showing AZ TO coal rs
| eveH more remarkable. In 1872 tho
| fetal csal product of The State was only
10. 600 tons; in 1882. COS, 600 tons; and
tbe past year ,2Oi, 0OO tsns-an increase
of 1900 per cent. in eleven years.
Before selecting their new loca-
ton. it is hoped the Missouri Fur
mace Company will carefully exam
inc the mineral districts of East
Tennessee. The iron ores of Sulli-
van, Carter, Unicoi and johnson
counties are said to constitute the
richest iron-ore districts in the
United States. At the request of
the Board of Trade of Knoxville,
Tenn, Gen. John ID. Imboden has
written a book on the resorces OF
East Tennessee, and he reports the
mineral resorces inexhaustible, su-
perior to that of any other locality
in the United States. The removal
of tho Missouri Furnace Company
to the South will be followed by
other industries. A new era is GER
tainly dswning upon the South.
The furnace companies are remov-
ing to the ore, instead of transport
ing the iron-ore to inaccessible fur
naces, and it will not be long before
the cotton-mills OF the North will be
removed to the cottoR-fields, instead
of transporting the raw cotton tc
the Northern mills. Everything
indicates greater industry, renewed
and growing confidence in the bust
ness industry of the South. 1t vii
not be long before immense furnaces
will be going up in East TENNESSEE
to utilize the exhaustless stone anC
mineral deposits which abound il
that region of the State. Foreign
capital will soon be invested ia en-
terprises designed to develope th'
resources of the South. When thu
capital commences developing th'
iron ores of this State East Tennes
see will glide into unbonded pros
perity, and when the cotton-manu
featuring establishments of tn,
North are removed to the South ant
the cotton crop is made into fabric
near the spot on which it was grown
West Tennessee will rejoice witt
East Tennessee in unbounded pros
perity.