Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-17
THE IRON FURNACE.
Clarksville the Future Iron City
OF the South.
A 1Bo-Ton Furnace to be Erected at 6
Cost OF 100000 Superior Quality
Of ore-Cheap Coke.

ana SOIlu CROWN. Our people SUI
serihed So, coo as g donation for the
building OF the GAINESVILLE Mineral
railroad. This subscription was
based principally on the benefits to
be derived from the building of the
road. Now the building has COM
menced, and the benefits to be de-
rived, before one dollar of the money
is paid, are two fold in sight. II
comes not only in the building Of
the railroad, but also in the building
of great iron furnace in our midst
with capacity of $50 tons of iron
per day at a cost of 5000, 200. The
furnace has been located and the
building will soon commence, so as
to be ready for operation as soon as
the railroad is completed to the ore
banks, which will be within the
next six or eight months.
AS much as has been said about
the superior quality of our ore and
advantages for making iron cheap
our people have never believed OIL
dreamed of the half. Did we not
possess these superior advantages il
is an evident fact that Mr.. Wood
ward, the most successful iron manu-.
facturer in Alabama, would not
have moved his lease of operations
from Birmingham to this city.
This mammoth furnace will be
located on the Poston or Ingram
place, about half way be-
tween the old brick residence
and Red river. A switch will
be put in from the main line Of
the L. & N. to this place and also
bridge built across Red river to the
stone bluff on the opposite side. The
County court should take some in.
terest in this part of the work and in
building large, substantial bridge
for public use, opening up a new in
let to the city by way of Poston
street from the Pea Ridge vicinity
The cinders from the furnace will, in
short time, make substantial fill
across the bottom, above high-wateI
mark and give better crossing than
that at the mouth of West Fork by
way of Ford street.
The capacity of the furnace will re-
quire 800 tons of ore per day, $50 tons
of coke, so tons of stone, producing
$50 tons of iron to be shipped out in
one form or another, making CSC
tons, or SO car loads of product-all
the fruits of labor, to be moved every
day. This is an immense addition
in traffic and will involve the daily
expenditure of large sums of money
that will enter into the general trade,
We have the ores in twelve miles OF
the furnace, the stone within few
hundred yards and coke within 90
miles. The astonishingly low rates at
which the railroad and river are able
to move their material makes il
cheaper to manufacture iron here
than the old plan of building the
furnace in the center of the ore and
timber regions and as cheap as Biz
mingham can supply the same ma
terial to her furnaces. Instead Of the
mule, the cart and wagon for moving
this material, the road will run
switches into every ore bank, and
the ore being washed clean of dirt,
loaded on and dumped off at the
furnace.
Messrs. Gracey and Woodward are
not going into this business blind
folded. They will not build great
furnace here to stand idle for lack OF
ore, as has been the case at Sheffield,
Nashville and other points. 1t is not
for show and the fun of booming the
place, but for business. They have
carefully investigated every detail
and know precisely what they are
doing. The ore has been thoroughly
tested and promises to be greatly SUI
perior to the Birmingham ore. In
fact Birmingham can't make good
quality of iron without largely mix
ing in Tennessee ore moreover Bir-
mingham, Sheffield, Nashville and
other iron centers require large
portion of Pocahontas or Pittsburg
coke in their operations, which can
be had as cheap here as at either of
the above named places; while trans
portation for the iron from this p lace
to the iron markets, by reason of the
advantages afforded, by the river fix
ing the rates, is $3.50 per ton cheaper
than ut Birmingham, Ala, and
the quality of the ore makes the
iron worth at least $l.00 per ton
more, giving GAINESVILLE $3.50 per
ton the advantage over the cheapest
iron counties in the South, or in the
United States. This is of itself
profit of 1875 per day. The ore from
this county and the coke from Earl
ington or st. Bernard mines have
been carried to Birmingham in large
quantities and tested to the perfect
of Mr.. Woodward, and
that is why he il here. No coal