Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-10-03
SOUTHERN ORES.
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Ihat oouih est Vlrelnm Is grow
ing in Importance as great iron and
coal producing center, each passing
day demonstrates. Capitalists from
Pennsylvania and other Northern
States have made, and are constantly
making Investments in the minera
lands of this section, from which
they have lleady received large re
turns, with the promise of muci,
greater benefits in the future. To
the sagacity of President kimball
and his associates is due the wonder
full development of tie Flat Top chal
regioc. which has increased tho Cal.
rying trade of the Norfolk and West
err railroad nearly thousand fold
and made the whole line of the road
from Norfolk to Bristol, succession
of towns aud cities, which continue
to grow with unprecedented vigor,
as the energy OF the officers of the
road aud the Pocahoutas Coal Com
pany increase the demand for the
product of the Flat Top mines. Al
ready has it been demonstrated that
the use of Pocahontas coal incroaees
the speed of ocean steamers, and,
Notwithstanding Senator Sherman's
effort to smuggle Nova Scotia coal
into this country, the demand for. The
product of tue mines OF southwest.
ern Virginia will continue to increase
until it will require thousands more
men TO furoish the supply. The
coal fields Of This section are practi-
cally ineXhaustible, aud rs to the
quality, that has been fully demons.
trated in n hundred practical tests.
Nor is this all; along with the coal
some of Che finest iron ore beds in
the world are to be found in this sec
ton and i'll western North Carolina
and. East Tennessee. Along with the
iron orc and coal there is an abund-
ance Of limestone, the three import
ant requisites in iron making, and
that northern and eastern capitalists
recognize these advantages the rapid
construction Of furnaces from Mines,
Va. to Johnson City, Tenn, shows.
A cursory glance over the field
may not be amiss ut this time, prov.
ing, as it will, that tho iron industry
is gradually shifting from Pennsyl-
vanla to the section already mention
cd. The furnace at Mines has been
repaired, and under new vigorous
management is turning out supe-
rior quality of pig iron. The namo
OF the furnace has been changed to
Shenandoah, and train loads of Grin
pie Creek and Cranberry ores are
shipped there every week. Besides
the furnaces Mt Mines there are two.
the Grocer furnaces, ut Roanoke, in
active operation, and the West End
furnace of that city will soon be
turning out first class article eff pig
iron. A furnace is also rapidly near
ing completion Mt Salem One is in
active operation at Pulaski City; an
other at Ivanhoe; one is being com
pleted at Max Meadows; another will
be built at Radford; Graham has an.
other ready to be lighted; ono is to
be built at Sunni on the Clinch
Valley; there is anoth n at Barren
Springs on tho iue of the Norfolk
and Western railroad, which makes
such superior pig iron that it is ship
ped TO Pittsburg. A furnace is being
constructed ut Bristol; another at
johnson City, Tenn, and one costing
S3,O0O,OOO is TO be built at Carson's,
three miles north Of johnson City.
The old charcoal furnaces so long
used in this section, are giving place
to those of modern construction, and
oil the way from Buena Vista to
Chattanooga there is a development
OF the iron industry rs gratifying as
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