Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-05-17

foauS IN commercial fFaff1c. The
Louisville & Memphis railroad IS in
active operation, its trains passing
day and night through the city.
Besides these, the Indiana, Ala
bama & Texas railroad is in process
of construction, passing through the
city from north to south at right
angles with the Louisville a Mem
phis road. With these ample means
for the transportation of material.
for manufacture, and for prompt
ly placing the product In any mar
ket desired, the
MATERIALS FOR MANUFACTURING
will next claim attention.. These
are abundant for a variety of pur-
poses. The forests all around are
still teeming with poplar, the very
best white-oak, hickory. ash, beech,
cherry, walnut, red-gum, maple,
sycamore, and red, black and post
oak. So that parties desiring to en-
gage in the manufacture of wagons,
plows and every other implement
used in agriculture, moved by
steam or horsepower, or of house
furniture of the finest and the cheap
est kinds, or of carriages for pleas
ure and business, or handles for all
kinds of implements, tools, &C.,
may here command the very best
material in any quantity desired.
Cotton and wool are obtainabIe here
and as cheap as elsewhere.
IRON ORE
pot and pipe OF thelimonite variety,
in inexhaustible quantities, exist
in the numberless hills of this and
adjoining counties. The metal made
and sent from this field, is that
which has given to Tennessee iron
its unequaled reputation for tough
ness and strength. At a distance
of nine miles on the L. & NJ. rail-
road, some of the richest mines in
this or any other State are reached.
In one of these shaft has been
made to penetrate the deposit of ore
to over twenty-three feet without
reaching its bottom. This ore yields
one ton of metal for les than tive
tons of ore. Limestone for fiuxing
may be had for the mere breaking
almost anywhere about here.
In sight of the town, a high ridge
abuts upon the Cumberland river,
and runs Southwark some thirty
miles without break, and is filed
with iron-ore. Upon this ridge or
very near along its entire length
the /. A. & T., railroad will be
built, and so bring about the de.
velopment of vast mines which
have only awaited the means oil
transportation.
With the incalculable wealth Of
material shown tn be procurable
here, it now remains to be seen how
1t Is to be utilized. Where is the
| STEAM OR WATER POWER.
by which this great variety of raw
material is to be wrought into the
hundreds of commodities to be pro
duced from it. The country al
around the town is watered by
streams affording power sufficient
to move the machinery of a thous.
and factories. But for the average
American, who was born in a hurry
lives in hurry, and dies in a hurry
often by steam too-fossiI coal is
laid down here now for steam ma
king at six cents a bushel. 1t is
thought by the contractors in charge
of the work, that the I. A. & IT,
railroad will be ready for the cars
to reach the great western coal field
of Kentucky. by the LIST of October
next. When this enterprise is ac-
complished, coal will be placed here
rs cheaply as at any point in the
South. Not only will coal equal to
that Of PIttsburg be thus assured but
COKE.
also which has been proven by Mr..
Fulton the mining engineer oil
JOhnstown, Pa, to be nearly equal
to that OF COnnelsville, which seems
to be the standard by which all
cokes are estimated. Here is re-
produced the table prepared by Mr..
Fulton, showing the comparative
physical and chemical properties OF
coke made from the Crabtree coal,
along side of that of ConnelsvIlIe