Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-05-22

abound. On the Cumberland side of
the Tennessee Valley there exists a
bed of red fossil ore over seventy
miles in length. This is the princi-
pal ore that will be used at Middlcs
borough. and is the same in charac.
ter ms the ore ut Birmingham. It is
high in phosphorus, but can be
treated on the basic hearth process
for steel making. especially when
blended with the red or brown ores
that abound through tho Smoky
Ranges the other side of tho valley.
The possibility of making cheap
basic hearth steel is tho problem on
which hangs the future OF the iron
industries of the South. Our Eng
lish experts all speak in the most
sanguine terms of the process US it
has been worked in England.
THE CRANBERRY DEPOSIT.
The cranberry deposit is of i'm.
mense extent and depth. I saw
face uncovered at Cranberry which
showed over five hundred feet thick
ness of the ore on nearly quarter of
I mile breadth, and the deposit ex-
tended the same manner on the 9th.
er side of the valley. There is an
other vast deposit next to the Gran.
berry mine belonging to Philadel-
phia owners, but it has not been de-
velOped like Cranberry. The rail-
way which has been made to reach
the Cranberry mine from tombstone
City and Wutnuga has cost over two
millions of dollars to construct, and
the ore is so priced that it is shipped
NIL over the Norfolk aud Western
road to blend Mt other furnaces with
the brown ore of other parts of the
country.
A gentleman who has charge of
this property, General Wilder, was
asked lately by one of our Iron and
Steel Institute travellers, with note
book in hand, what might be the ex
tent of this magnetic deposit, and
the General, whose language is no.
torious for it's picturesqueness of
style, told the English scientist
well, sir, 1 guess that deposit is so
considerable, that if you were to
look You would find the devil making
pitchforks in hell out of it at the
present moment In every direction
the brown ore deposits occur along
the southern side of the Norfolk and
Western line, and it thus is evident
that the bearing of the great coal
forest on the north to the iron beds
Oh the south is of the utmost import.
ance, not forty miles apart from one
another.
DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE.
The climatic advantages extend all
up the Tennessee Valley. and the
new town of NIiddlesborough is de-
veloping large sanatorium outside
the mountain pass in the middle of
the broad Clinch Valley, which is to
be called Harrogate, and where n
hotel of colossal proportions and es-
pecial luxury for invalids is being
constructed at the present time. 1t
is worth noticing that the isotherm
of the northern portion of the State
Of New York descends along the AL.
leghanies and follows up the valley
OF the Norfolk and Western for sew
eral hundred miles; the climate,
therefore, is quite unrivaled in the
United States, and this fact will have
great bearing on future develop
ment, taking into consideration the
ASoOeiiSCo VI COul anu lCOu UuuU ur0 nj
hand.
AMERICANS AS MANAGERS.
One great drawback to all English
enterprises in America which have
either a purely English management
or are controlled and directed from
this side of the water, is the impossi
billty of making the "long arm" us
efficient as the short one. 1t is the
old story of trying to administer the
finances of India from the India OF
flee under the control of Parliament
Such management does not wear
well i'll competition with purely
American or Anglo-American enter
prises with the seat of administra
ton in New York. There are, in
deed, numberless good enterprises