The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-14

town. Ihe invitation was accepted and
the convention indicated that Il would
visit the oil City Thursday.
NJ G Ranney secretary Of the San An
tonic and Arkansas Pass immigration asso-
citation read paper on THE Necessity
OF Organization.
MIR. Ranney was followed by j. n.
Groesbeck. member Of the executive com
mittee from Stephenvile who spoke as
follows on
HOW CAN WE BEST PERPETUATH
OUR ORGANIZATION?
The greatest success attained in any line
Of business. or in any OF the affairs OF
men. is by thorough and complete organ
izaton. and its perpetuity IS maintained by
cooperation with untiring energy to back
It, and the will-power and inclination 10
push forward and build up any under
taking put into existence Adversities Of
ten overtake our schemes and plans for
success but it Is said perfection is only
obtained through adversely.
In making a success and perpetual or.
ganzatiOn of our present association we
must necessarily be willing to lend all
our energies. brain and will power, to-
gother with money (Which few OF us
probably have noD to the uphuilding Of
the order ! believe we should enter into
d permanent organization and conduct our
affairs in strictly business-like way as
any large corporation would, having meu
TO look after every branch of our busi-
ness.
This leads me to the most Important part
OF the subject and 10 the bedrock prln-
cple of this association, and that Is the
upbuVding Of all Texas interests and
different branches OF trade, and mainly the
development Of our raw lands. We should
nut an active force to work advertising
Texas and her wonderful resources, bring
immg grafton. capital, factories, mills and
all manner az investments into the state,
have our harbors and rivers improved and
have not less than twelve large shipping
ports on our coast make our rivers
, navigabe and keep men to look after an
matters pertaining to tho advancement OF
Texas interests
The only way to secure these ends Is by
unceasing and untlring advertisements In
the North and East and II the United
States has not enough capital to invest In
, Texas, then ! am in favor OF sending our
| advertising agents to countries where they
J have more money than they need and Sc
curing the necessary funds to bulld up
every branch Of industry.
We can make this organization perpetual
, by getting the entire combined ehort OF
3 every individual member Of this associh-
tion to aid and use his OF her influence TO
= advance and promote our welfare, to work
, up an enthusiasm amongst the people IN
e all sections Of the State, and, in fact, to
i work as II their individual efforts were
necessary to make success Of our under
taking. and by doing this the outcome Will
be that success win be assured and the
! organization will become the leading med
I ium for business men everywhere.
D John NJ Claiborne Of Rusk was the next
9 speaker. He aroused considerable en-
= thusasm
+ IRON IN CHEROKEE COUNTY
was the subject Of the remarks by General
I g.t.i,,...o of Rr1elr yphp guOlxo in
o part as follows
u II is perhaps unnecessary to enumeratt
o to you (who are the informed of Texas
= the general and special advantages pos
sessed by our great state.
In 1882 the State concluded to build an
(, iron smelling furnace at Rusk' In order
"a to worl, the iron ore of the section into
: nips For years this furnace has been
% making pig equal 10 Scotch pig iron, and
- for some purposes superior. a majority OF
- the car wheels w in use on roads enter
. ing Texas are made of the iron from the
A hematite ores Of Cherokee county.
v Today the State pipe works turn out the
: best water pipe made anywhere TOT al
y strong structural work IL IS superior ~
any other made
j. Altoona Pa makes a car wheel guaran-
: teed life of 10000 miles at Houston are
% made car wheels from the Cherokee lroI
n guaranteed a fife OF 100000 miles, and
n some of them have life record OF over
e $50. 900 miles 1t costs 10 make OF charcoal
ton of pig iron Cshort $''"; hecentlH
y a test was made Of Ignite or brown Goa
as a fuel and the cost OF making pig iron
'r win be reduced about $3.50 per ton. Lim1
r. for fuying purposes is within twenty eigh
% miles OF the furnaces and OF good qual
Is ity and ia large quantity winch VIII als'
al decrease the cost Of making pig VI to Sl.o
10 per ton. or within 70 cents per ton OF the
he OF nirmi uEnam. Ala. or III
81 Pennsylvania or Lake superior
There arc two furnaces AZ Rusk-the
le star and Crescent and the Old Alcalde
m The two have capacity ~ eighty tons pei
q day There Is a dfty-ton per day furnace
/. at New Birmingham
- The iron ores OF Cherokee county ar
=, practically iuexhaustble It is calculate
pl Inv experts that there is surface brown an
&c red hematite ores enough within five mile
Of tbe furnace 70 operate lOD htty-ton luf
~ naccs for 200 years. The ore ~ obtained OF
Nv TOP of the soil or hy stripping the surtac
mr. from one 10 three feet, Inc top strata ma
. an average Of eight feet in thickno IS
~ while there IS another twelve TO invent
ne feet below OF a greater depth but OF
is different class NJ ore, paying IN netalll
~ iron only 80 to 40 per cent. while hematit
70 runs 48 10 50 per cent with now and the
ne a pocket going over this ASSAY
General Manager y. J. Price OF the Ia
r | transitional and Great NOT ,neIh ralIn q
l. wired regrets and deputized r. r. Claride
te TO represent his road L. A. Wilson
20 Dallas and Cyrus Thompson Of lockhal
In addressed the convention.
ld At the close NJ Mr. thompson hpeec
e. the president announced tnat resolution
ar were in order. but would be referred a.
a. ter being read from the secreisry's desl
to the committee on resolutions witho'
~. debate
,ly W V. Grubbs OF Gainesville sent up
re, resolution favorlng Industrial SCHOOLS, az
as John T. Battle Of Waco onered one II
e. dorsing the movement looking to the in
no provement OF the BRACES river for nagigi
ssl ton Other resolutions we're offered r
IS Eating to the government OF me asiocl
on ton and all went to the committee
ter Prof II. T. Atwater OF san anton
Mt. read a paper on what We got from Z
,or Omaha exposition and what will we DO