Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1911-12-01
iron ORE ROAD
SOON COMPLETED
First Train Dec. 6th.-0re City to
Celebrate. Mining Activities
Will Begin at Once.

lie early CoIl l)lcJlOu VI tllt
Port Bolivar Iron Ore railroad to
the heart of the iron ore beds of
East Texas will mark the begin
ming of new era Of development
in East Texas heretofore not
dreamed Of.
1t has already been marked by
the building of a thriving town
of several hundred souls, several
stores, planning mill and cotton
gin, all built and in operation
long in advance of the advent of
the railway.
This town of Ore City, which
is to be the concentrating point
of the Iron Ore industry to be
carried on along modern lines by
The Ore City Co. and interests,
owning in excess of two hundred
million tons of the finest iron ore
to be found in the United States.
"A great washing and crushing
plant for refining this ore will be
established near Ore City, which
when refined, is to be hauled to
Port Bolivar, and thence trans
shipped by ore carrying vessels
directly to the blast furnaces in
Pennsylvania.
While this is a tremendous step
forward in the development of
the East Texas Iron Ore deposits
and will prove highly protita-
BILE business, as well as give per-
manet and lucrative employment
to many workmen, its profits
will compare as pennies to $40
bills with that to be made when
the blast furnaces and rolling
mills are erected in the heart Of
the East Texas iron ore country,
as they will ultimately be.
The inauguration and success
ful prosecution of this first de-
velopment work at Ore City
means the uphuilding in north
east Texas Of great manufac-
turing metropolis, thickly girted
with factories and teeming with
life 1t means the building of a
model city of beautiful homes,
substantial business houses, wide
streets and shady boulevards,
parks and recreation resorts.
Ore City is preparing to com
memorate the completion of the
Iron Ore Railway, with u great
celebration on December 18th.
On that date special trains will
be run over the M. X. q 7. and
M. & K. 7. to the junction of the
Iron Ore r. r. and all lines en-
tering Longview where the Iron
Ore r. r. connects with the
Santa Fe, |. & G. N. and T. & p.
and especially low round trip
rates have been promised. From
Longview the crowds will be
taken on special trains over the
Iron Ore Railway to Ore City.
Here they will see town but a
few months old which already
numbers fifty odd residences and
nearly a dozen business houses
and manufacturing industries,
with numerous others to be
erected as soon as material can
be hauled in over the newly com
pleted line
At Ore City the visitors will
see the nucleus of what is to be
model city in all that the name
implies. Broad, we'll graded
streets, which have already been
laid off. and business and resi-
Dental lots graded and ready
for the structures which will
soon adorn them. Here they
will find themselves in the midst
of an old settled agricultural
section, settled by a thrifty set
of farmers, each of whom owns
and works his own farm. Here
is the center of the great fruit
belt of East Texas, the home of
the Elbeata peach and the finest
fruit, berry and truck country to
be found anywhere. Also i'm
mediately adjoining Ore City are
some of the finest pine and hard
wood forests in the world and
already one big corporation is
having the ground cleared for a
big saw and planning mill, dry
kilns and wood working plant
The coming OF the railroad into
this section will mean not alone
! the develonnent of the iron in.