Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-25
FURNACE SMOKE.
Something About the Big En-
terprise Nearly Finished.
The Huge Draft-Stack Towering One
Hundred and Sixty-FIve Feet
Into The Blue Ether.
Look Out For The First Run.

Look Out For The First Run.
A LEAF-CHRoNICLE reporter spent
few minutes yesterday afternoon at
the Gracey- Woodward furnace and
was simply amazed at the work that
has been done there within the past
few weeks. The three large hot
blast stoves are now receiving their
finishing touches. One of them is
completed, one will likely be com
pleted to- day and the other will re-
ceive its last touch within week or
ten days. These stoves are eighteen
feet in diameter and are sixty feet
high. Each stove contains about
10000 fire brick, making in all 45O,-
600 brick used in their construction
They are incased in fine steel plate
and, to newspaper man, appear to
be models.
The elevator and furnace are also
nearly completed, and the huge
draft-stack now towers 1865 feet into
the air. The last round will be put
on it to-day and it will be turned
loose completed. 1t is built of fine
steel plate and is an enormous stack.
The twelve large boilers have been
put in position and are located just
east of the draft-stack. The engine
house is also nearly completed and
will soon be supplied with two large
engines with drivers thirty feet in
diameter. The large car.shed has
also been erected. 1t is about 200 feet
long and about 100 feet wide. Tracks
have been laid in this structure to re-
ceiye the cars loaded with ore, stone,
etc, for the furnace. 1t is so ar
ranged that the load can be dumped
from cars right on the elevator and
thence conveyed to the furnaces.
1t is difficult for a man to conceive
the work that has been done out
there without seeing it. The whole
face of the earth is covered with ma
terial of different kinds which is be-
ing used In the work. Great quaint
ties of sand, fire brick, steel plate,
timber, stone and the like may be
seen scattered here and there conven-
lent to the workmen. Mr.. H. G.
Woodward, secretary and treasurer
Of the company, has charge of the
work, and he knows every detail OF
it. He takes pleasure in answering
questions and trying to get newspa
per men to climb the draft-stack. He
says the view from the top of this
stack is the grandest in the South. Ii
must be 50, but the writer will take
his word for it and not climb it at
present. It's too high-minded for
newspaper man.
Seriously, this furnace is grand
enterprise for GAINESVILLE and as soon
al it goes into operation you will see
things hum hereabouts. This Will
be in the early fall, or just as soon as
ne ore can be had. The furnace will
t., ready for it, and the first run that
is made out there will mark an i'm
portant epoch in the history of thi
section.
Mr.. Woodward conducted little
visiting party through the offices OF
the company, in the old Poston resi-
dencc. This house, it will be re-
membered, has been transformed in
to business offices, and they are mod
els, being furnished with elegant Of
flee desks and chairs. The floors are |
carpeted and the walls are decorated
with interesting pictures. We were
shown several pictures of the corner
stone laying. One was the first train
that ran to the furnace. The inn
mense crowd had just alighted from
the train, and to the man who was
there on that suspicious day it is life.
like. Another was the corner stone |
laying, while a third showed A. S.
Colyar, making his great speech, at
the Poston residence. They were all
snap shots, taken by Mr.. Woodward
himself and he prizes them highly.
They are simply reminders of the
Inauguration of the great enterprise
and will no doubt be kept in that Of
flee until all the S.e in Montgomery
and Dickson counties is made into
pig iron.