The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26


merchants furt her back In the ni0t1n taitls|
sending Iii iva GOT. loads 81 country pros
duoe and taking back grooeriesi dry goods!
and hardware. IN The groceries are bought
at Galax. It is not an uncommon sight
to see 40 many q 4 fifty bf these dds
Fashioned covered Wagons IN the town.
loading with supplies for merchants and
tains "a "a i sS9 a y, ess
| The beautiful green leaves. slightly
COPPER colorod !, used 50 generally In maxi
i Ing funeral wreaths, grow' Wild on the
mouttalns surrounding the town. They
are called galax leaves. Hence the name
}of, the /. town. The people pick them by,
the miller, literally, and bring them in
10 dealers III Galan. ono merchant has
lsshipped q as many as a. million 1t one
time. The price ono has to pay for d
gatax wreath when ne wlsl1os to send "a
tribute to a deceased friend should lindi-5
cate that the people who pick he leaves
make good money. s1 understand that
such is the case II is J, af, industry n,
which the boys and girls Of the family
can boi employed to Al vantage and sven
the housewife ana tho grown ups OF both
sexes can earn fair wa ges. It Is rather
pleasant tos think that these leaves, which
seem to have sttch funeral mission In
life, should be the means OF cheering and
holping Ri the struggling noun taineer to
support Hi family before they 90 4 on to
rest on the bosom OF NJ the dea d. Ell }s8
"a short distance across the mountains,
at tho terminus Of the main line OF tho
Cripple Creek road, Il IL Fries !, where Is
located the big cot ton mill erected there
several years ago at q COS Of several
hundred thousand dollars. " (. Tho N ton
mill company u construct "a a o. high con-
croto dam across New rive. and thus
secured stfflcient wator 20 over to operate
Il have previously written o. S the S mill
hero. and the clean 3 little town, in hicht
reside the operatives Ia houses own ed by;
the company. ID The lattors az the title
to every foot Of ground i in the town,
and proposes to hold Il. IN order " pri-S
MARTY, to prevent the sale OF liduorS IN
Fries. Tbs mill employs upward s& Of two
|.them como from the surrounding noun
tains. MI
The Iron Industry s5a
Up the New river from Pu laski / NOR
rather. down the river from Fries, are
almost innumerable ore -wnshlngs close
tot railroad, and in front OF each Is AZ
Siding, s$ on whtch n arc Hat-cars being
loaded with orc for the furnaces At Pu- "
laski.
3s4s There are two iron furnaces at Pulaski, e
wttl,in&a stones n throw Of a each tlerr-----#
the Dora furnace and tho PULASKI iron
furnace en- the tvs. ~ for5
omparatively " new one ! erected at a cost
81 about $780, 600. The 81 Z 'Iundic ore
mined on New river contains a large per-
centage Of sulphur. Sui phur& In = ron u.s.
very objectionn BILE. In fact * there IS
much Of 1T the iron Isl practi cally va ue n
less # This plant first kes out the SUI
|sphurs in &the form 81 lphurc acid, and
tho ore is then availabl d for uses II the
manufacture OF # ron. acid U az 81
by product Is nv ery val lie. ~ ny
This is not q echnical "a escript ion Of
Tho process of obtaining III e acid, but the
lay read erS would 5 not ~ y ers tand the
other were II tois tempt to. give y, for
|SISdid tund erstnnd VT my sell he pro
cess 9is the discovery of ono of the Ierre-s
|lshoffs, the eel ebrated 4 !shipbuildo,E. The
orc used contains as niue nj as l 80 per
cent 81 sulphur and q 9 Ter cen of iron.
sS$4fS The Zinc w orks.
rhe Bertha, zinc w orks are located
further Up the valley al Gil the esterIl,5
edge Of the e town. ~ Tho furnace have
been HI op GRAFTON a quartz of sa8 century,
and Ut Isl said they ma ke z the Il standard
spelter for the I'm ted sta tes eter#is
1.-The comm ercial term for q he e r-S
rangement OF he furnaces is 3, !, ~ eily
litself. 81 The ore crush ed unit It rs res
Isemb les fine san !, Isl plac ed In box es made
|offire@ clay each with q pro ecting snoz X
Szle IKE the Il as OF a cksnll his bell!
|.lows. The mouth q this nozzle Us q stop
ped wi tn the clay The 8rece tacles CO Z
tairing the ore are a then rallk ed 3T$i 2 y
pcrma furnace, which resembl les notfE1 u
|sing s. much !, as a great filing cal Inet,
(probably fifteen Get igh by I'll n
length, ana possibly eight feet In wv ID tn,
Each OF the frecepta contains = about
five hundred pounds ot crush led ore ii
fgsThe heat Is suppl led by coal fires ~ y
the has Of the 81
ore. \ MriS Dagge o It 81 the chez who
showed me overt he works. gaye me the
8exnct number, 4but II had ~ tsf en- So
thorough y soak cd linS the rain on my
way lip 1.-THE valley and the j ea 81 was 81
Intense irlf$ front 81 those 5hundre 1hlaz-
ling nozzles. that y t has slippe ed my mind
Every; & kind 81 OF flame any bod s knows VS.
anything about comes from the nozzl les
50 TAI as color IS concerned mt least and
1.-the scene present ed h at light Is ono of!
wonderful beauty, 81 IL ~ a \.
Historic lad Mines
Nearly all the ore used at the furnace n
Fcomes8 from mines on N eW y r iver,, In the
syiclnityaSo 81 ustinYlllo, u ii but some si Is
brought " from New y ersey \ II e "A N CIV
River mines hay 9 been work ed for zinc
Flor many yea rs, A. ear %Austlnyill ard
lead mines also which have been worked sec
since 1855. "A III XXI i RS 35
It is4 said that v lead mined here was
lsmoulded into bull cts for Washln gton's
army. II The8o shot tower, O tst tone truc-3
Ituro. probably forty feet IN height. yer-:
looking tho abroad from q consld erableis
13eminence @ stands fear s Aust ville *
was told shot was smanufac tured hero a q
late as Twenty-Five years ago. The en-
terprise has been thing OF the past for
many, years i AZ l {
S$ The fact that ] am cons family getting.