Year: 1874




Jackson County furnaces could sell pig


and railroad iron at about fifty per cent.


profit when cheap furnaces like the Co.


lumbus would have to suspend or sell at
cost. And this is the reason that. while
large proportion of the furnaces
throughout the country suspended when
the panic brought down the price of iron,
all the furnaces here have worked right
on to their full capacity.


But, it may be inquired, if this is so,
why are there not already more furnaces
in operation here? Because, as I have
indicated this is recent discovery
recent even to the iron men here, and
still more recent to those outside for
the former have been serenely slow about
proclaiming it on the housetops. Never
theless there are five furnaces in full
blast at jackson; others are in operation
or in projection at other points, and a
new one is nearly completed within a
hundred rods or so from where the
Wellston Company are about to COM
mence building their two. From the
shaft of this latter-Milton furnace-four
or five car loads of coal are shipped daily


A word or two as to the quality of this
coal 1t makes, as | have stated, the
finest foundry iron with the small num-





the above estimate, and without coke or
other admixture. Its heating power is
very great. The engineers on this road
who have tried it say that two bushels of
it will make more steam than will three
bushels of any other coal they have ever
used 1t burns out all its blackness with
a bright, wood-like flame, swelling and
spreading open and bearing up till every
piece of it at last glows like red-hot
iron, and then dripping away from the
bottom in a mere handful of white ashes,
without clinker or Stag of any kind l
have witnessed its behavior in the CRATES
and cookstoves of the farmers here, (they
all use it for cooking in preference to
woody and, unhesitatingly, think it has
great advantages for domestic purpose
over any other coal l have ever seen
burn. Being free from the sticky, tarry
matter of the ordinary bituminous Goals,
it deposits scarcely any SCOT at all The
chimneys and stovepipes here are as clean
almost as from the burning of oak and
and the under sides of the cook
stove lids and the bottoms of the kettles
are burned white like ire-clay.


Now, all this is in one hundred and
thirty miles of Cincinnati, by the Mari
eta and Cincinnati Railroad Where is
such another invitation to Cincinnati
capital Every iron manufacturer in your
city ought to own his furnace here. And
should not this coal considerably the
nearest and incomparably the best in
Ohio, be delivered to all parts of the city
about the Marietta and Cincinnati Rail
road Depot at prices to compete with coal
delivered there from the river? Lack of
rolling stock, am informed is all that
prevents the Marietta and Cincinnati
Company from solving the problem, and
l understand that they have proposed,
to Swhoever will furnish it, to rent and
keep in repair the cars and take fifty car
loads daily at the mihes at eight cents a
bushel The coal can be profitably sold
in Cincinnati at thirteen cents
bushel If Cincinnati capitalists don't
look into this, they will be careless of
their own interests and of the interests
of their city. COATES KINNEY.