Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1888 — OUR LETTER FROM THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

OUR LETTER FROM THE SOUTH.

Special Correspondence. Dxcatuk, Ala., March 13th. Th® reports of bliasarda and storms and snow-bound bains in th? North and West still continue, while herein the Tennessee valley your correspondent sees the will plum and the flowering almond bloom, and early peas and potatoes already up in the vegetable gardens. Fr>m all external signs one would imagine this to be early May instead of March. \ The whole State of A'abama is excited just now over the completion of the experiment for making steel out of the common, cheap ores here. There seems to bq no further question but that steel can be made cheaper in Alabama than in auy other country iu the world, England alone excepted. The new process of steel making is the Henderson process, and it bids fair to revolutionize the steel and iron trade of the country. Alabama has for some years shipped pig-iron to Pittsburg; now this State may be called upon to furnish Pennsylvania with steel as well. When this prophecy comes true the cotton fields of this State must give place to the small farms, where potatoes and oats and vegetables will be the staples, and southern agriculture will then support the rapidly growing manufacturing towns that are springing up here. Thisminufacturer of steel in Alabama, too, means that this State will *be as staunch a supporter ci the protective tariff as Pennsylvania has always been. This city situated as it is, midway between the great brown Hsemetite deposits on the North and the red ores on the South, and with coal all about her, bears the same relation to the iron dishdot of Alabama that Pittsburg dees to that of Pennsylvania. It may be rash to say that this city of 7,500 inhabitants will some day be es large rs Pittsburg, vet 88 strange things as that have happened. Certain it is that Pittsburg was once as small as th : s place is now; and if this city continues to increase in population at the rate of over 500 per cent, per annum, fb it did this past year, then must it soon rival New York City itself* Seriously though, the growth of these new cities in Nordi Alabama are wonderful. The half-fare ratas over all the railroses for visitors to the South ia bringing a large number of prospectors to this city. These excursions take place, I believe, on the 27th of March and the 10ih and 24 th of April. Full partict - lars can be obtained from the railroad agents. One of the most interesting manufacturing processes that I have seen here is the manufacture of alcohol out of the smoke of burning wood. The Caemi’ cal Charcoal Co. have 50 large ovens in operation, where they make 600 bushels of charcoal a day. This causes the burning of 1,000 cords of wood a week, but, instead of allowing the smoke and gases from the burning wood to etc ape, it is conducted through pipes to condensers, and thus this ordinarily wasted product is made to yield 3,000 gallons of wood alcohol and 125,000 lbs. of acetate of lime each week. I have to-day seen land sell for $2,000 an acre in lots, that a little more than a year ago sold lor sl7 an at re. W. KF. De bes’ watah comes Torn de well dat am dipped de mos’. The Correct lime. There are very lew men who do not pride themselves on always having the correct time; and wonderful and delicate mechanisms are devised to enable them to do so. But the more delicate a chronometer is made, the more subject it becomes to derangement, and unless it be kept always perfectly clean it soon loses its usefulness. What wonder, then, that the human machine, so much more delicate and intricate than any work of man, shou’d require to be kept perfectly cleansed. 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