The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-25
INDUSTRIAL AND GENERAL.

Tho production of copper and
nickel ore from tho mines OF
tho Canadian Copper Company. at Sud
bury, Ont, for last year is officially
stated to have been 10000 tons. No. /
furnace was blown in for the first time
on December "A, 1888, and ran from that
time to December 81, 1889, $50 days of
"a hours, using 3l,26S tons of ore and
producing therefrom 3.S40 tons of matte.
averaging probably about Is per cent.
copper and ID per cent. nickel. In this
operation there wcrc consumed 1850
tons OF COnnellsville coke, costing about
$3.50 per ton at Sudbury. Smelter No.
started September 4, 1889, and ran 30
days from that period to December 81,
using 9.T4O tons of ore and producing
LILO tons of matte. averaging. proba oily.
about the same per cent. copper and
nickel as No. /. This furnace consumed
1.l69 tons of coke.
The South offers now the most fertile
field for the exercise of active energy
and invincible determine ton. In the
past many who wcrc filled with rest
less desire to accomplish something
worthy of their efforts moved to Vest
ern or Northern States whore greater
opportunities for advancement seemed
to offer themselves. But Il present the
spirit of push and pluck has impressed
itself upon the men of the South. and
instead of waiting for a turn of fortunes
wheel that is to bring wealth and dis
tnction, they are turning the wheel.
1t is pluck that is to build Up The
South and not mere speculation, with
an invocation to the fatcs to favor such
speculation. Work and Il determined
will is to do the work.
Reckless investments sooner \,r later
bring ruin. and to follow long the
phantom OF wild and indiscrIninatc
speculation is paralyzing in ii9 effects
upon manly energy ard self-fcliance
Only energetic and porsistcnH efforts.
and bold and independent actibn in the
line of honest and legitimate Hvork can
be expected to bring permancHt results
OF good.-Basic City Advance 4
One of the most important railroad de-
clslons OF recent date was that tn. H.
tcrstate Commerce Commissip& oma;nn+
! sAe sNestsr9 AS en- ( ork and pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company and others. In
reality it was decision against the
Standard Oil Company, and forbade the
railroads from making discriminating
rates in favor OF tank-cars and against
oil in barrels. The decision was read by
Commissioner Schoonmallcr. and con
talnS the following statement:
The fact that q carrier does not own
tank-cars. but accepts and uses such
cars supplied by some of its patrons for
their own traffic. is unimportant so far
as rates arc concerned. 1t is IL carriers
duty to equip its road with instrument
talities OF carriage suitable for the traf-
iic it undertakes to carry. and to furnish
them alike to all who have occasion for
their use, and its duty to furnish equip
ment cannot be transferred to nor re-
qI!rcd of shippers.
Danville wants Il railroad from that
place to Madison. n. c. With such
line Danville would have connection
with the Norfolk and Western, the
Roanoke and Southern and the Cape
Fear and Iadkin Valley roads. Another
scheme suggested is to strike the Roam
ol;c and Southern somewhere between
Martinsvillc and Rocky Mount. Such
line would be not over forty miles in
length, and would bring Danvillc within
sevcnty-five miles of Roanoke.