Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-18
GETTING in TRIM.
Preparations for the Corner
Stone Laying Oct. 90.
Spread the News and Let the People
Come in and Have a Glorious
Time.


Come in and Have a Glorious
Time.
i large force of hands are now EN-.
ployed ut Gracey Woodward furnace
building, rushing things to get ready
for the corner stone laying October
20. Next week the track will be
completed and the cars running
to the furnace. The approaches will
be open from every direction SO, that
people from the country can reach
the place on horseback and by vehi-
cles, by way of the Bending Works,
Poston street or Forbes avenue. 1t
is a grand place for a public gather
ing-a beautiful, grassy lawn sur
rounded by magnificent scenery.
1t is surprising how fast the work
has progressed considering the exces
sve and continued fall of rain. The
massive stone foundation for the
great stock house is nearly up to a
level, raising the lower end some
twelve or fifteen feet above ground,
while the upper end will run the
same depth in the hill side. The
machine shop is nearly completed
and will be ready for operation in
fau Il lUS "a II l., oISC HIIoJ ,u;tb tl,n
finest machinery in the city, such as.
bolt and nut machines, drills, lathe
and punches for punching and rivet
ing boiler iron, etc. Everything is
arranged with great convenience for
the greatest possible facility of work
Twelve large boilers and the engines
will set in line with the machine
shop, between that and the stock
house, which forms an ell on the hill
side. Three side tracks will run in
on different grades, one on the high
grade for dumping ore into the fur
mace without handling; another
comes in by the machine shop on a
lower grade, which will empty the
coke on an elevator to be conveyed
to the stack without handling, and
the third one on still lower grade to
the stock house, for loading ON the
iron, and then two other tracks roi
switching off empty cars, When the
immense structure is completed il
will pour out great streams of molten
iron into the casts at the rate of $50
tons per day
The old POstOn residence has been
repaired, painted and is now one OF
the most stately looking buildings
about the city. The rooms have all
been neatly papered, painted and
fitted up for Offices. Mr.. Woodward
says he has seen very many fur
naceS, but never has seen one 81
beautifully and admirably located
with such charming scenery and
pleasing surroundings, with SO great
a convenience for getting rid of tn
slack. AT Birming cham it costs the
furnace men seven thousand dollars a
year to get rid of their slack, while
here it will cost nothing for a hun
dred years to come.
This is another item to be added in
favor of GAINESVILLE, while we have q
finer quality of ore delivered a.
cheaply at the furnace as it is at Bir-
mingham, the cheapest iron manu-.
featuring place known in this coun.
try cheaper coke, stone at hand,
and cheaper transportation to the
iron markets, altogether making
about $3.50 per ton in favor OF
GAINESVILLE. What is to hinder this
from becoming great manufactur.
ing city as soon us these facts become
known? This is indeed a new era
in the history of GAINESVILLE, and il il
we'll that we celebrate the event by a
general turnout and Notification at
the corner stone laying of this great
structure. Our people have not
walked up yet to realize what all OF
this means.and what great prosperity
awaits the Queen City of the CUM.
oerland.
No town offers - great induce.
ments for Investment. Propert,
here is he cheapest to be found any
where, bat mark the prediction,
while real estate has advanced owe
City per cent. in the last year Il will
advance over 100 per cent. more be
fore another year rolls around.
The Bo5@le Sale.
Parties interested will bear in
! mind the sale Of personal property