The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-23
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fifteen coke and thirteen charcoal FUR
naces, with a capacity for 1888 OF 420,-
600 tons OF coke iron and 100000 tons
Of charcoal iron. The Sheffield dis
tfid hrs Ave large coke furT aces now
building with q capacity for 1888 OF
200,0t0 tons OF coke iron, and four
charcoal furnaces that will produce
annually as, COO ions Of iron. The total
estimated product Of iron In the three
States OF Alahams, Tennessee and
Georgia for 1883 will be l,5i5 900 gross
tons, Of which Alabama will produce
1,040 COO tons, Tennessee $4,000 ard
George so, 600 tons. All the coke fur
nsoes except one ale supplied with
brick stoves and are OF the best mod
ern type"
now THE INDUSTRY HAS GROWN.
"Osn ySu give in brief history oil
the development of the cos and iron
industry Ia the Southwestf
Gen. Warner could, with the asait
ance oi his Two friends, Mr. Shook
and PROF. Killebrew. And here it is:
"Tbe pioneer 10 the manufacture OF
coke.iron In the South wan Gen. j.
T. Wider. OF Chattanooga, formrly
of Indiana, WHO built the first coke
fura al lockwood, Tenn, in 1857,
and the second in 1872, for t1e Rosns
Iron Company. These furnaces have
been successfully and probably Iun
ever aiuco, the Roane Iron Company
paying regular Q per cent. dividends
on 8 capital Of 100000. TIE most
Important eingle factor in the iron
trade OF this section il the Tenressee
Goal, Iron aud Railroad Company,
which lately absorbed the Pratt Coal
and Iron Company OF Birmingham.
Ala. The capital of this company is
100000, and il now has in opera
ton Eve large furnaces-two ct Biz
mingham, Ala, two at South Pitts.
bug, and one at Cowan, Tenn.-and
ia building four large new furnaces at
Ensley Uty, near Birmingham, and
one al South Plttsburg. IL owns 3OO,-
900 acres OF ore and coal lands in Ala
bama and Tennessee. including the
famous Pratt and sewanee seams.
This company in 1888 will mako 1900
tons OF pig iron q day. Enoch EDsiey
is president, T. I. Hillman vice-pres-
ident, and Mr.. Shook here is the gen.
ersl manager.
"The Alabama and Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company, OF which A. s.
OoIyer, OF Nashville, ia president and
am vice president, owns 10000
acres Of valuable coal and iron lands
la Alabama, and has contracted for
three coke furnaces at Sheffield, with
daily capacity for each of l25 tons.
Metsra, Bnsley, Parish, Shook and
their associates are also building one
| large furnace Of Sheffield, and the
, Sheffield Company tho fifth. The
Souh Pittsburg Coal and Iron Com
paDy ia also preparing to build two
large coke furnaces at South Pitts
burg, with q daily capacity OF lzO tons
each.
ga. @. West and his associates, OF
Hartford, o., bought the Shelby fur.
mace, in Alabama, In 1867 or 1868, and
moderniNed IL; and their successors,
with Walter Crafts, Of Massachusetts,
as general manager, built second
furnace in 1873. This furnace is
fourteen feat by sixty fleet, and ia the
largest charcoal furnace in the world,
the second largest being the Tecumseh
furnace, which Is twelve feet by sixty
feet. The Rising Fawn furnace was
built in 1876 by Mossrs. Jarvis, Dit
mus & Wright, who lost a large
amount Of money In the enterprise
The property parsed into the hands Of
Senator Joseph IL. Brown, OF Georgia
| w. O. Morrill,, of Atlanta, and Mr.
Sewer, OF Boston, who have operated
IL with great success.
ga stfong English company bought
como 10000 acres of coal and iron
lands in Tennessee and built the two
furnaces AZ South Pittsburg. This
company also had bad fortune and
aold out TO the Tennessee Goal, Iron
aud Railroad Company in 1882, which
ia now successfully operating the
furnaces. This latter company was
organized In 1866, and built the Oowsr
furnace, which has been success
! this year it has amalgamsted with the
Pratt Goal and Iron Company.
ain 1885 Sir Titus Salt and his En-
alish associates completed tive larg,
furnaces at Dayton, Tenn, on the lin,
Of the Cincinnati Southern railroad
aud arc now running one Of them
The frat furuecs was built at Blrm'ng
ham by L. Il. Hillman in 1879-l8SO
/ cav the site of Birmingham in 1856
ne cotton field, and could hav
bought the land for sloan acre. Nov
the city has q population OF 5000
and lots ere selling at $1,000 a from
foot. Dol. J. W. Sloss built two lsrg
furnaces at Birmingham in l8Sl-S2
Messrs. DeBardeleben ard Under
, wood built the Mary Pratt furnace Il
1889, and the Messrs, Woodward tn
/ Wheeling furnace, near Birmingham
in 1899. The Eureka Company, {
which ]. d. Farris, OF Cincinnati,
, president, built the two furnaces Q
: 0xmoor, elk miles from Birmingham
, in 1s76-77.
! BEGINNING TO MAKE BEssRMRR STEEL
"Otico Furnace, Chattanooga, wa
I built by the Oitico Furnace Company
II. 8. Chamberlain president, in 1877
} This furnace and the two RoCkwoo
} furnaces ara now making Besseme
pig iron from the Cranberry ore o
s tbs line Of the Bast Tennessee, Vii
. Rinia and Georgia railroad. This iro
will he used by the Rosne Iron Con
9 pauy at its mill in Chattanooga 70
= making Btssemer steel rails, beginniu
in February. This will be the inceT
I ton Of the manufacturer OF steel raj
D in tho South. Capt. II. S. Chamber
Q lain is also president Of this company
4 "There are now building in thi
0 region eighteen new furnaces of larE
:. 8 re end best modern type, as follows
4 Nine a. or near Birmingham, five {
Shtflleld, three at South Pittsburg an
: ono at Chattanooga. In 1888 thel
d will ba f1rty.one coke aud ssventee
charcoal furnaces In the region, nj
y counting some small charcoal furnace
e which may b. regarded as abandoned
0 with a total assured production, as
. have already told you, OF 10000
i gross tons.
q "rhe prominent and most aoliv
d men In this rapid development of I'll
8 coal end iron industry OF the Sopt
|. ara Enooh Bnsley, I. L. Hillman,
9 W, 6loee, II. f. DeBarde'eben, Samu
!, | Noble and Willard Warner, of AL