| From the Clarksville, Tenn. Jeffersonian |
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| July 26, 1861 |
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| The Atlanta Rolling Mill |
| One of the most important enterprises in
which citizens of the South have engaged, and calculated to promote
our independence quite as much as any other that could be engaged in,
is the Rolling Mill Established at this place. So important was it
regarded by the Convention that met at Montgomery two or three months
ago, that a special committee was appointed to report to the meeting
ensuing, in reference to its operations and estimated benefits. |
| In our columns will be found the
advertisement of the proprietors, setting forth that while the roads
immediately in this neighborhood had patronized them liberally, those
more remote have not given them anything to do, and that if no orders
for re rolling rails are received soon they will have to stop, their
present efficient force will become dispersed, and they can give no
assurance of commencing work again soon. |
| The attention of railroads in the
Confederate States is invited, most earnestly, to this important
matter. The time may -- we believe we would be justifiable in saying
it will -- come, when the railroads within these States will
very much need just such an establishment, and should they allow it to
suspend will regret it but once, and that will be always. |
| This is the only Rolling Mill in
the Confederate States and has been established under great
disadvantages, and has invested in it a very large capital. It is
under the management of an energetic man, thoroughly educated in the
business, and a perfect master of it. All the machinery in the Mill is
of the very best kind, embracing all the improvements and calculated
to roll any kind of iron in use on our railroads. The pecuniary
responsibility and the business capacity and reliability of the
proprietors is fully equal to the perfect fulfillment of any contract
they may be entrusted with. |
| Shall the Confederate States be
independent, so far as they can? Will the railroads within their
borders study their own interest, send forward their old rails to be
re rolled, and thus give life and vigor to an enterprise which at some
future day, not remotely in the future either, may be indispensable to
them, and save them from destruction? With their rails worn out, war
raging between the sections, our ports blockaded, and this Rolling
Mill suspended, what will be the condition of our railroads, and what
will be the condition of our armies, which look to them for
transportation of men, and the material and munitions of war? |
| Under this view the neglect to sustain
this establishment promptly and liberally, becomes a very grave
matter, and one which the railroad companies in the Confederate States
should at once consider of. We hope they will at once, without delay
do what their own interests, and, the vital interests of the entire
Commonwealth seems imperatively to require of them, namely: send
forward all the old iron they have, and have it re-rolled. We refer to
their advertisement in the proper column. |
| Atlanta, Ga. Commonwealth |
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