Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-18
TENNESSEE IRON.
It Equals Life Insurance Policy
in Boilers.
The Iron Ore That Could be Brought to
GAINESVILLE and Manufactured into
Merchantable Goods.

Merchantable Goods.
j. B. Killebrew delivered an adj
dress Thursday night in Nashville,
under the auspices of the CONNER
cial Club, which has been pronounced
a success by students of the subject.
The address was on "The Western
Iron Belt in its Relations to the
Growth and Prosperity of Nash
ville." This iron ore could be
brought to GAINESVILLE just as well as
to Nashville. Geographically it be-
longs here, and the city should re-
ceive its benefits. The address is
lengthy, covering all the ground.
In dwelling upon the deposits con-
tigu0us to GAINESVILLE he said
''The most noted banks in this
belt in Tennessee, beginning at the
north are those of Cumberland Iron
Works and the LAGRANGE Furnace in
Stewart county the Steele banks in
Montgomery the Cumberland Fur
mace and Morley banks in Dickson
county; the Nunnelly, Iron Hills,
Aetna, Jerry Branch and Hurricane
in Hickman; the Cedar Creek and
Rock House in Perry; the Napier in
Lewis; the Nixon ore banks in
Maury the Smithdale, Shapes and
the Lawrence Iron Company's banks
in Lawrence; the banks of Wayne
Furnace, Aliens Creek and Clifton
in Wayne county; and the Browns
port Furnace banks in Decatur.
OF what Importance is this great
iron belt to Nashville? How much
has it contributed in the past to the
prosperity Of the city and what it is
capable of doing in the future ? Be-
fore Nashville had dotted Vts swad-
ding clothes, far back in the last
century, as early as 1890, this iron
belt contributed its quota to the pros
perity of your city. Cumberland
Furnace was erected in 1895 and con-
tinued with slight interruptions to
make iron until within a year or two
past. A furnace was built on Vel
low Creek in Montgomery county in
1902. Afterwards followed that great
Pennsylvania, Montgomery Bell,
bold of heart and broad in intellect,
who built a furnace in Dickson coun-
ty, and in 1914 cast patriotic cannon
balls, which were sent hurting
through the ranks OF the enemies of
his country at New Orleans. And
then followed that long line of re-
markable men, who were distin-
guished for their business capacity,
their unconquerable perseverance,
their unyielding courage, their uner-
ring sagaeity, and for their financial
strength and fixedness of purpose.
In this list we may mention among
the most prominent, the Stackers,
the VanLeers, the Kirkmans, the
Vests, the Napiers, the Steeles, the
Watsons, the Hillmans, the Woods,
the Yeatmans and the Baxters.
i 1t was the Stackers that drove the
Scottish and Pennsylvania sugar
kettle out of the market, and re-
placed them by their own make.
They demonstrated that the tough
ness and tensile strength of Tennes-
see iron equaled any that was made
in the world, and as early as 1882 a
test was made of their iron, in COM
parison with that made at other
places, at the Franklin Institute in
Philadelphia, and the result showed
that it was equal to the best make of
Swedish iron in every desirable quail
ity. Their successors, Woods, Yate-
man & Co., built up reputation for
Tennessee bar iron that made it
sought for wherever the waters of
the Mississippi rolled. And then
followed Daniel Hillman, who con-
ceived the idea of converting the
iron made in his furnace into boiler
plate, and he demonstrated that it
amounted practically to life insur-
ance to ride upon steamboat whose
boilers were made of Tennessee iron.
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