Tennessee Its Agricultural Mineral Wealth

Download or read book Tennessee Its Agricultural Mineral Wealth written by J. B. Killebrew and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tennessee Its Agricultural Mineral Wealth: With an Appendix, Showing the Extent, Value and Accessibility of Its Ores, With Analyses of the Same As to the purity of the iron ores of Tennessee, the analyses given of Specimens from various portions of the State, which may be found near the close of this pamphlet, will indicate their superiority. The Specimens analyzed were not selected because of their supposed purity, but with' the View of getting the average quality of the ores from the various localities mentioned. In every case better and worse speci mens could have been procured. The analyses made of the magnetite from Carter county, for instance, yielded about 64 per cent of metallic iron, while specimens could have been selected that would have gone above 70 per cent. The main object in having these analyses made is to arrive at practical results; to show what a well appointed and well managed furnace can do. In every case where the ores have been used in such a furnace, the yield has equalled and sometimes exceeded the results of the analyses. 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.