The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-09-02
AN IRON MILL, AND WHAT FOL
LOWED.

| AN IRON MILL AND WtAi fcL-
| LOWED.
| A short timo since, we took occasion
to refer to the possibilities OF furnaces
established in Eastern Texas. We
have insisted that rs good iron could
be made In this State as in Alabama,
Tennessee, Ohio, or even Ponnsyl-
vania, and with as great or greater
profit. The eros exist in the greatest
prOiusion, and OF the very finest quail
ity. Fuel can be easily had, and labor
Is as plentiful, or soon would DO forth
coming upon demand, as in any OF the
Southern States. The furnace at
Rusk IL turning cut aplohdid work
and doing woll in over respect. d.
mand, whether for fuel or labor, brings
the supply, and II Eastern Texas were
nightly lit with the cheering glare OF
iron furnaces, every mill could run
the year round and more than supply
tho demands of trade for the great
Southwest and Northern Mexico.
In confederation of these views and
statements, an article in Nashville,
Tennessee, paper, giving the history OF
a turnancs in East Tennessee, is
worthy of reproduction. The difficult.
les originally in the way OF the Roam
Iron company were far greater than
any that would be encountered in
Eastern OF Northeru Texas, both as
regards tho acquisition OF labor or
fuel and the transportation TO mar
ket. 1t was literally an experiment
In tho wilderness, but 1t waa success
full. II proved to bo tho pioneer OF u
dozen other mills in that section, until
now the region is rivalling Western
Pennsylvania, and Chattanooga and
become city OF 80, 900 people, is known
~ the Plttsburg OF the South. The
more directly pertinent and salient
features of tbs ar!icie referred to are
as follows:
"At no time since FIRST blowing
In have both furnaces been out OF blast,
and they have invariably, since first
commenced, made money. Prior To
building the furnace, land there was
worth from 81 toS7 an acre, county
very sparsely settled, bat little raising
of crops or cultivation Of fruit. The
only market was Chattanooga and the
country south oil there; the only means
OF transportation WAS by river--thc
Cherokee, steamboat of 90 tons,
making two trips a week during tho
season OF high water. being the
- oh Nhut 40
SEES tho change made by this one plant.
Now land is worth $50 to 500 en- acre.
The business dono caused the location
OF the Cincinnati Southern railroad;
then there arc three loaded trains each
day, of metal, supplies and material.
A village of 5000 people has been butt
up, all of whom have TO be furnished
with food and supplies from the coun.
try adjoining. There 10 q homo mar
ket for everything that is raised, and
every farm product, at prices as good
as were obtained at the distant mar
ket, when most OF tho price was con
sumed in transportation"
The chief dependencies OF the farm
era Of Eastern Texas are, Of course,
the products OF the soil and the timber.
1t Ia q magnificent section for fruit
and all kinds Of vegetables, now not
so closely attended to, for tho want of
, market. An agricultural section, i,
} needs nothing so much as home
market, and that Is furnished only by
) large towns, and particularly by man
utscturing centers. Ii East Texas
/ would but awake to its vast possibili.
ties and dig up the buried treasure
!, ying In the earth a waiting the scar Oh
, OF enterprise, the growth, almoat as II
by magic, in both population and
trade aud wealth, would sstonish the
most sanguine well-wisher Of that
section. 1t needs but little capital
from abroad. East Texas is rich
, enough to build its own furnaces anc
! carve out its own fortune, but such
, assistance AZ was needed, upon ,
proper showing by representative
mon, could doubtless be easily OBJ
, tained In tho East. The history snt
/. results Of the establishment Of tn,
, Roam Iron company ought to prov,
4 sufficiently clear and encouraging OK
I amples.
But In this matter II an additions
D resson for the speedy completion Q
l the Dallas Trunk road to Sabine Pssl
!, The road will stimulate the lumbe
. and iron manufactures OF the lsng o.
i tent Of country through which 1t Is I
. pass, and these, in turn, will give th
0 road its business, and a heavy an
q profitable one. With line direct I
. Dallas and TO Sabine Pass, Il will
as impossible to keep iron mills fr0I
, East Texas and busy manufacturin
70 towns from springing up, as 1t IL to sto
+ the seed from sprounng which
} placed in the ground. These, in turl
r, nuss look to Dallas ~ their chief mat
ket, and materially swell the constant
Of ly.gro sing trade Of this city. II 10 q
Dr. advantage that will be generousl
III two.fold and two sided. To push gu
q, railway connections, aud secur
10 around Us an era tfindustriAl develop
10 mont, ought 70 b. tue daily meat an
OF drink Of the businsss energy Of thi
10 city, and this Ess. Texas flsld IL read
J. and anxious 70 BE- cultivated. such II
y alanoss n NE growth Il manufaolu
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