Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-03

Substantial Work Its Charming Seen
cry and Inexhaustible Mineral
Wealth.

/ WbhAbns
Superintendent Dunn added a
special coach to the Mineral road
train Friday morning to convey a
party of gentlemen over making an
inspection tour of the road and the
mineral lands.
1t was a lovely day for such a trip.
The atmosphere was delightful and
the scenery grand, revealing chains
of hills and valleys and great fores s
gorgeously robed in autumnal beau
ty, the yellow leaf in the scar, ming
ling with the variegated colors of
brown, pink, deep red and green,
and now and then few saw briars to
remind strollers who were glorying
in the loveliness of golden autumn
and meditating upon the incalculable
wealth Of the mountains of hematite
ore, that they were not exactly in
heaven and that Jordan was not an
easy ROAD TO travel.
THE MINERAL ROAD
branches Off from the l., q N. on the
Lyle place, eight miles west of the
city and winds around the hills up
the beautiful valley of Budd's Creek,
and is now in operation twelve miles
out from the junction, which is
called Hematite, where the company
already has handsome little depot
building. 1t is an up grade of eighty
feet to the mile for some seven miles
out, and sweeps along great bluffs of
solid limestone, as fine quarries as
we have ever seen, suited for build
ing, matchmaking and fuxing, with
a good proportion of soft, white stone
suited for lime; and along the west
side lies the charming valley of
Budd's Creek.
1t was a great undertaking to run
a road through this country, but it
has been done, and is a fine piece of
new road, all ballasted with stone,
solid and smooth, scarcely causing a
jar as the train passes over it at the
rate of sixty miles per hour. 1t is
certainly the best piece of road con-
struction that was ever made in this
part of the country, with substantial
bridges and trestles of fine white oak
timber--and it needs to be, for very
soon the company will be hauling
200 cars of ore and stone over it
daily.
THE IMMENSE WEALTH
that this road will pour into Clarks-
vile is beyond calculation, and is
only to be measured by the limit Of
capital and the energy and enter
prise of our people. The road cuts
eight miles through a tier of ridges
from so to $50 feet above the
valleys and nearly every ridge
is solid bed of the richest
hematite ore. These ridges very
much resemble the Cumberland
mountains in that they lie in rows
like a potato patch, 50 that spurs
can run out from each side of Tho
road up the valleys to haul out the
ore from the mines.
We gave description of the ore
banks Saturday, and the half is not
yet told, Our people have no dream
or conception of their extent. The
old furnaces that operated in this sec.
ton thirty and forty years ago threw
away the best ore in mining pockets
for the large Jumps. The new pro.
cess of mining will take these hills
down level with the valleys, and
nearly every shovel of dirt will yield
80 per cent. OF washed ore. The
stone in the quarries along this line
can be delivered in Clarksville as
cheap as it can be quarried elsewhere.
The company is pushing ahead with
the track laying as fast as the iron
can be had, and the rush now is to
get into Louisa ore banks to facilitate
mining.