Author: American Iron Mountain Company

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781230109541

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...timbered; and no doubt exists, from the fertility of the soil, that by careful management, more particularly in keeping of fire, so ruinously destructive to the seedlings, a shorter period than twenty years, "the one assumed in the estimates," would suffice for the reproduction of full-sized timber for char ' ring; and that the Company's manufacture on the scale estimated, (the rolling mill on the Mississippi being worked with stone coal, as proposed, ) might be permanently supplied with fuel from the present possessions of the Company. Fortunately, however, there is no necessity for such restriction, for in almost every direction, bordering on, or near to the tract, but more particularly towards the south, there are for miles large bodies of Government land, covered with forest, which may be secured at $1 per acre, and the Company thereby enabled, by an outlay of small magnitude compared with the importance of the object, to ensure the continuous existence of the works, on a widely enlarged scale. "compared with the estimates," as charcoal works. Again, on either of the lines of road that may be adopted as channels of transportation to the Mississippi, there are situated about half way, or rather nearer the river, extensive forests of yellow pine, of an extremely resinous nature, with a slight mixture of oak, covering probably an area of upwards of twelve miles square, the greater part of which is also subject to entry at government prices; the exception being two or three Spanish grants made for the establishment of saw-mills on the Establishment Creek, and Aux Vases River. From this pine, eitherexcellent charcoal, more particularly suited for the finery fires, could be made, or the cord wood, after...