Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-10
Bound to Win.
For the Evening News.

For the Evening News.
1t was in 1868 that the writer, who
was then on visit to Rusk, in Chero.
kee county and Henderson, in Rusk
county, had his attention called to
some hardware that was then being
manufactured out of iron ore obtained
in each Of these counties. The quail
ty Of this hardware led him to inquire
into the matter. He was informed by
the late Judge Morris, of Henderson,
that there was vein of iron ore run
ming through the above named coun-
ties, which afforded an inexhaustible
supply, and which was as pure as any
ever discovered in any country. "In
fact" said the Judge, much Of it is 80
per cent. pure iron, and l have seen
horseshoe nails hammered out of this
ore in its native state"
At the close of the war John Kel-
ley established furnaces for the manu-
facture of pig iron, in this same vein,
in Marion county, near Jefferson, and
when Col. Foruey and Col. Tom
Scott visited this state with an expert,
a few years afterwards, they went to
those furnaces, and after investiga.
ton the expert said it was the purest
ore he had ever seen, and in his opin-
ion carwheel could be manufactured
from it without the admixture Of any
ether iron, which up to that time had
never been done in America. This
report attracted the attention of Ma
jor John F. Dickson, who was then
superintendent of the Texas and Paci-
fic railway from Marshall as far as it
ran west, and he at once commenced
experimenting with this ore. Having
satisfied himself that this iron would
do all the Philadelphia expert claimed
foor it, he, Dickson, secured capital
and established carwheel manufacto.
ry at Marshall, where he met with un-
bounded success. OF late he has
built another foundry in Houston,
where he is now manufacturing car
wheels from this iron there and meet
ing with wonderful success.
These facts are given to show the |
quality of the ore which at last has at
tracted the attention of the capitalists |
who arc now planting the town Of
New Birmingham near Rusk, in Cher
okee county, a town that is bound to
become the leading manufacturing
city in the great southwest; for with
an abundance Of capital to work an in
exhaustible supply Of the finest ore in
the world, the enterprise is bound to
succeed. There is no question what
ever but what town Of fifteen or
twenty thousand inhabitants will
spring up there in less than three
years from date. Business men who
have been there and looked into the
matter all express this opinion, and
those who have money to spare are in
vesting in real estate within the limits
Of this new FL dorado, which en-
braces $4,000 acres, that is that num-
Der Of acres have been secured and
paid for by this new company. IRON
workers Of every kind and description
are turning their attention in that d.
rection from the north and east and
millions Of dollars will soon be invest.
ed in machinery there. Nearly every
day some new site is secured for
mill or . factory, or foundry on an
extensive scale, and New York St.
Louis and other manufacturing and
commercial centres are shaking at
New Birmingham all the capita. need
cd. At present, however, the compa-
ny has all the capital required. AL
the prices now asked for lots, there is
no risk in purchasing them, for the
capital already invested there Is bound
to be protected. If capitalists can af-
ford to risk their millions there, 9TH
ers can afford to risk the prices asked |
for few lots. If you cannot risk |
your own judgement act upon theirs. |
If they have made more money than
you have, they are more apt 70 know
what they are doing. Business men
in these days are apt TO look long
way before they make even short
leap.
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