Author: William B. Caldwell

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781332239184

Excerpt from Notes on the Coal and Iron Ores of Western Kentucky "The Report of W. B. Caldwell, Jr., Metallurgist of the Kentucky Geological Survey, will be found elsewhere in this issue. We bespeak for this exceedingly valuable paper a very attentive perusal. It furnishes an exhibit of some of our most important resources (coal and iron), which, coming from the source it does, can not fail to attract attention abroad. It is a document which should be printed in pamphlet form and scattered far and wide, in the United States and Europe. Mr. Caldwell is a thoroughly accomplished and experienced metallurgist, his theoretical knowledge having been acquired at the great schools of science and art in Berlin, and his practical knowledge having been obtained in the iron-works of Silesia. He has been engaged by the Chattanooga Steel and Iron Works as the chemist of the establishment, and he will make his headquarters there upon the completion of the steel furnace of the company. This change will not, however, deprive the Geological Survey of Kentucky of Mr. Caldwell's valuable sendees. In the Northwestern States they trumpet throughout the world their great resources in wheat-producing lands, and keep them ever before the public by means of pamphlets, newspapers, and circulars. We have in Kentucky more durable and valuable resources than those States, and they can only be developed by letting the world know what they are. Our coal and iron region is immense and exhaustless. The facilities for working it are remarkable. We have only to force the facts relating to their abundance upon the attention of capitalists, and our State will be put forward half a century in progress." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.