Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-11
BIG FURNACE.
It Will Average Two Hundred
Tons Per Day.
Work Moving UP on the Graoey-Wood-
ward Furnace-No Flies on the
Bending Works.

the building to completion as fast as
possible. This is an immense .struc'
ture; no one can conceive OF its
vastness who has never seen it, and
moreover it will when completed be
the finest furnace in all the
South, and a most charming |
location for such plant. All that
nature could do to make ii such, with
grand scenery all around and an open
sweep for the cool breeze that comes
from the Cumberland.
Three hot-blast stoves Is feet in
diameter and GO feet high and fur
mace of same size and hight, are just
being completed. The jackets are OF
fine steel plate and each stove and
furnace contains 100000 fire brick.
The draft-stack, yet to be built, will
be 175 feet high. The cast-hOuse, 50
by l75 feet, will soon be completed. 1t
takes four bricklayers six weeks to
fill 10 stove, which is complete
network of brick, with blast-cham-
bers through it like the meshes OF
wire sieve.
Workmen are now engaged setting
the boilers. There are twelve OF
these immense boilers, and two en-
gines with driving wheels thirty feet
in diameter.
This furnace is built on the SAM
plan as the Hattie Ensley furnace OF
Sheffield, with some Improvement
over the Hattie and much larger ca
pacity. The Hattie was built for ca
pacity of 1875 tons of iron per day,
and has achieved a record over all
other furnaces in operation, making
an output of POI tons of pig iron III
one day, and averaging 173 tons.
The Gracey-WOodward furnace i
built with capacity for $50 tons per
day, and there is scarcely a doubt
that it will beat the Hattie Ensley
record, running over an average Ol
200 tons per day, as it is an establish
ed fact the ores along the Cumber-
land river are far superior to the
Tennessee river iron, and here We
have the ore in twelve or 70 miles
of the furnace with railroad tracks
into the Ore-blnks. The calculation
has been to make iron here at cos
of $40 per ton, but now it is eviden
that with the superior advantages
not taken into the calculation Whet
the building was commenced, the
finest quality of iron can be made a
so per ton. AT the present low price
Of iron, and counting the cost at $l'
per ton and cost of freight, leaves ;
net profit Of So per ton on the Louis
vile market, which gives the Ora
cey-Woodward furnace net profit a
lowest prices, from $500 to 5000 pc
day.
This furnace will go into operation
this summer, ard then people viii
witness the liveiiost times ever seer
in GAINESVILLE. Strangers will begin
to come in to see what mighty thing
GAINESVILLE can do, and there will b.
no hesitancy about investing manu-
; featuring capital here in every lin
that works iron, timber, tobacco, etc
THE BENDING WORKS
is another enterprise in the nortl
cast end of the city, which the LEAF
2 CHRONICLE has often mentioned, bu
still has never given more than re
mote idea Of its capacity and won
dcrful industry. This enterprise nov
? has forty nine hands employed in tn
: building, thirty in the woods, beside
fifteen engaged under special logging
contract and more than that numbe
o among farmers are hauling timbe
., to the mill every day for sale, jus
= as they haul their tobacco and corr
to market, only that their timber i
| entirely Il new income, like SO mucl
. money found, for which there ha
, never before been any market.
| The saw mill is cutting from 1900
to 2O,O 900 feet Of lumber per day. Pop
. lar, walnut and other timber not use
full in the works finds ready sale a
good prices, and it is hard to suppl.
the demand.
, The mill is turning out 1872 sets c
! wagon felloes per day. That i
enough for making 1872 wagons, 90
feet of lumber being bent daily
They have one spoke lathe il
operation in the works which turn
: $500 spokes per day and will sool
have in another with capacity O
1900 per day. Every car load O
spokes that goes out, brings in $1,000
: The farmers are delivering an aver
. age of 5000 spokes per day in tn
rough. Most of this timber come
from the south side and the mel
complain aWrulIy that the tolls tax
; a big share Of the profits. The,
want free bridges and better roads
The mill is running sixt, en- saw
: and ii keeps one man busy fliE;
= saws and keeping them in order
e This enterprise promised to emplo,
:. about 80 or 80 hands to start with