Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-10
OUT ON THE MINERAL
Excursion Party Inspecting the
New Road and Ore Banks.
Call for the Firs. Half Of Subscription
to be Deferred Awhile-2oo Hands
at Work at Louise.

Some twenty-five prominent citi-
zens went out yesterday with Super
intendent Dunn, Engineer Cobb, and
Capt. Gracey as committee from the
Board of Trade to inspect the Miner
al road, which is now complete to
the county line.
We understand that the call for the
first half of the subscription
will not be made yet awhile, but
the company was anxious that citi-
zens should go over the line and see
the character of work that had been
done and the development going on
in consequence of the building OF
this road. The party was greatly in
terested and delighted, every
one was pleased with the
the substantial character of the work
and durability of the line.
1t was jolly party and they had a
good time and much fun while see
ing the sights. After viewing the
road and fine scenery along Budd's
Creek, and the great stone quarries
and mountains of iron along the line,
Capt. Gracey took them to Louise,
and walked the gentlemen over a
half dozen ridges and hollows, show
ing them the immense deposits of
ore in the valleys and on the hill
tops, his arrangements with the big
ore washer, and how he is going to
make those little mountains come to
him, by taking them down and
washing out the ore, and leveling up
the valleys with the washed out dirt
The gentlemen were very tired by
the time the trip was over, following
Capt. Gracey up and down the hills
1t is busy place at Louise, Some
200 hands are engaged in opening the
mines, finishing up the railroad spur,
building houses, etc. Over 500 tons
of ore have been gathered almost
from the surface in opening, and are
now ready to ship.
Capt. Cobb had dinner prepared at
BatsOn'S Hotel for the crowd, and
they broke the hotel at the first dash,
eating a whole barrel of flour baked
into biscuits. DR.. Shelby was along
and that was the trouble, and he
says Squire Caldwell helped him.
Neither of them was half statistic d
but went off and got two dozen hard
boiled eggs and pound of striped
stick candy each, and finished up on
candy and eggs for Il desert
After dinner some charges were
preferred against Squire Caldwell and
a jury was organized to try him.
Mr.. ID. N. Kennedy was elected
Judge and DR.. Shelby the prosecu-
tor. He SAID sam hadn't treated
him fair in the dinner business.
Smith Batson was the first wit
ness. He testified that he
had known Sam Caldwell from a boy
up, and he had never regarded him
of sound mind, and there was no ac-
counting for what he might do.
Capt. Tom Smith, John Hurst and
other witnesses all testified to the in
sanity of the accused. The court ac.
quilted him of DIR. Shelby's charge,
but convicted him of lunacy, and
sentenced him to the asylum, and
the Squire had to give in. 1t is the
first time anybody ever got Sam
Caldwell down and he is deeply
chagrined.
President Howell, of the Board of
Trade, was greatly pleased with the
revelations of latent wealth, as was
every man in the party. They had
never dreamed Of the rare deposits
of ore contained in these hills and
valleys. They thought the descrip
ton given by the LEAF-CHRONICLE
exaggerated, but the paper had never
told the half of it. Mr.. Howell
noticed that the spur running into
Louise up the valley between a and
b was blasted 300 yards with iron
ore, and the track is built on solid
beds of ore, and thinks there is enough
ore in the Louisa bank to run every
furnace in Birmingham fifty years,
He wants this note for his report:
Our committee went out over the
Mineral railroad and saw many iron
ore openings, and, using only com
mon sense, am perfectly satisfied Of
the ineXhaustible quantity of ore
and of the very best quality, easily |
mined water abundant, with the
l.. u N. railroad running over and |
through ore banks on each side OF
the track. a. HOWELL.
Christmas Goods.