The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-15

lightfully cool and pleasant. 1t is q re-
markable fact that workingmen endure
this climate far better than a northern
latitude with its constant fuctuating
changes in temperature. The elevation is
high and the country has always been free
from any epidemics. No section of the
south produces finer fruits and vegetables
or in greater abundance than Cherokee
county.
Mr.. John Birkinbine, the eminent iron
expert and engineer, has nearly finished
the plans for the erection by the company
of a fifty-ton charcoal iron furnace,
which will be located in the mauufactur-
ing district of the town, in close prox-
unity TO the ore lands and the railroad.
! Contracts for the erection of this furnace
are rapidly being made and work upon it
will be pushed forward with the
utmost dispatch. The building stone
on the property of the company is now
| being quarried and contracts have been
made for other material, so that work will
| be well under way. by the middle of Octo-
| Der. Several prominent eastern furnace
men will visit the property within the
next thirty days with view of locating
their furnaces there, this company Offering
| liberal inducements and terms to all
parties Wishing 10 locate.
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.
Work will be CONNIE need upon wagon
| factory and planning mill within the next
! few weeks, and before the first of the
coming year these will be in full opera
ton. 1t is confidently believed, from
negotiations now pending, that rolling
mill from Ohio, wire mill from Pitts
burg, Pa, and several other enterprises of
! like nature will be established within the
next few months. To all of these under
takirgs it is the. policy of the company to
offer the most liberal inducements and
advantages. All business men know the
immense market Texas affords for manu-
featuring goods of all kinds, and that
some northern and eastern towns are
supported entirely by the Texas trade
yet Texas has but few manufactures OF
its own, and there is no reason why New
Birmingham, with its immense ore helds
coal and timber facilities, should not be-
come, at no distant date, the great manu-
featuring and industrial point of Texa:
and the southwest. With the maDufac-
turing growth anticipated must come {
corresponding growth in population, al
the statistics show that every workman
engaged in an industry represents fam
lily of five persons.
The great basis and reason for prom
ineut industrial town are the enormous
iIon ore deposits underlying about 14,OO(
acres of land of the company. The ore i
pronounced by experts one Of the best IL
qualify and most extensive of any depos
known i'll the United States. 1t is classeC
as "blanket deposit and varies from ont
to seven feet III thickness, and is found a
an average depth of from two to three fee
below the surface. The character Of tn,
ore is q solid brown hematite," [
"crumbly brown hematite' and "blacl
lamin ated." These ores when roasted
will be practically free from sulphur an(
contain about 53 per cent of metalli,
iron and will melt very readily in tn,
furnace. The ores being found near tn,
Surface and in such quantity that it i
only necessary to scrape off the sand.
soil covering them when the ore can bt
taken out at cost not greater than 81
cents per ton. The quantity of the ore i;
beyond measurement and is sufficient Il
supply any number of furnaces TO
hundreds of years.