The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1890-04-16
CARDIFF
Great Land Sale April ga, and Following
Dsys-BxeHrsiOH Trains from
New England.

AANhAoaNn ALaAnc AVN
New England.
The Cardiff properties are not expe-
rimentaL The coal and iron have been
probably mined more than twenty
years. The location Is In the midst OF
already developed properties. The com
pany owns $4,000 acres of coal aud iron
mines and timber lands. situated in
the Tennessee counties Of Roane, Cum
berlahd and Morgan. It's city of Cardiff
contains over 5000 acres. There is
scarcely any industry which cannot
fluid a favorable chance at Cardiff for
successful establishment and profit
The development is in charge OF men
of approved judgment and experience.
Excursions to Cardiff for the sale will
be arranged from principal cities of Tie
North and West.
THE TOWN OF CABDIFF.
With these preliminary considera-
tions, the President and Directors of the
CARDIFF COAL AND IRON COMPANY
have organized a corporation under the
laws of the State of Tennessee, aud Sc
lected town site adjoining some of the
richest mineral deposits in the great
Allegheny belt, two hundred miles
nearer than Birmingham to Northern
and Western markets, with the advant-
age Of the good will aud hearty cO-Ope-
ration Of the resident and neighboring
population, combined with the expert
ence Of successful managers of similar
enterprises in the South. as the guar
antee for its steady development into a
Furnishing centre of industry.
They have been Influenced in the
choice both by local merits, and also by
reference to all other enterprises of de-
vcloPment that are in progress else
where in the Allegheny belt.
The spot they accordingly have Sc
lected is in the valley Of the Tennessee
river as near as may be in the geograph-
ical center Of the belt, and in the midst
of already developed properties, at the
foot Of Walden's Ridge, the great coal
reservoir of East Tennessee, and at a
point about seYenty-tive miles north of
the prosperous and pOpulous City of
Chattanooga, and about one hundred
and twenty-five miles southwest Of the
growing district of Gum berland Gap.
The Great Kentucky Bluegrass region
lies directly to the north on the main
route TO Cincinnati. The mildness of
the climate, enabling work in open air
all the year round, is indicated by the
averages of the weather bureau at Chat
tanOOga, which report 59.7 degrees
Fahrenheit as the mean annual tenn
perature at that place.
The proceeds of sales will be applied
to the improvements of the property by
the erection Of iron furnaces, coke
ovens, hotel, waterwOrks, motor line,
electric lights, manufacturing plants
and public buildings. A plan will be
offered which will enable purchasers to
secore lots at reasonable and not spec
ulative prices, the intention being to
give patrons of the sale to make a
profit, as well as the company.
IRON ORE.
The Red Fossil or Clinton Iron Ore,
is the foundation Of the iron industry
at Cardiff This deposit has been tested
by more than twenty years OF success
ful mining. The mines give us an ex-
cellent opportunity of estimating the
quantity of ore. Tie size of the veins
is very regular, averaging in Cardiff
from four to four and a half feet, and
on the Riley's Creek property, miles
distant, fully six feet. There is enough
iron ore within ten miles of the town to
supply ten 1UO-ton furnaces a hundred
years.
The quality Of the ore will be more
fully discussed in connection with the
analyses. Though samples containing
fifty-six to fifty eight per cent. of me-
talic iron could easily be chosen, it
seems more fair and more satisfactory
to rely on less highly colOred but more
solid facts.
Mines now owned by the CARDIFF
COAL & IRON Co., are to day furnishing
ore to furnaces at lockwood, Dayton,
Chattanooga and South Pittsburg. The
quality OF the ore needs no more con-
vinciDg recommendation.
LOCATION.
The unusual proximity Of the factors
of iron production, ore, fuel and flux,
is a marked natural feature the South,
especially in Tennessee and Alabama.
Successful furnaces at lockwood,
Dayton, South Pittsburg. Chattanooga
and Birmingham have demonstrated
the practical advantage of such situ-
alton, while the recent flow of capital
to MiddeIsbOrough, Fort Payne, and
elsewhere in the great Allegheny min
eral belt, shows the continued conf
denee Of business men. In general, the
location of Cardiff is the same. In de-
tail, we invite companion.
A lemon grown by Mrs. John Shelby,
Of this county, was brought to our Office