| From the Hillsboro {N. C.} Recorder |
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| March 30, 1864 |
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| Interesting to Iron Makers |
| From a letter from Lieut. Col.
F. W. Sims, of the Confederate States Quartermasters' Department and
Railroad Bureau, at Richmond, to the officers of the Atlanta & West
Point Railroad, we learn that the Government affords liberal facilities
towards the manufacture of iron in this State. To increase production of
iron for railroad purposes, the Government will guarantee to any company
organizing for that purpose freedom from impressment, if one thousand
tons annually are yielded by furnaces now out of blast in Georgia;
provided that at least five hundred tons annually are sold for railroad
purposes, and the remainder for purposes of agricultural, repairs or
construction of machinery for making wool or cotton fabrics, and
merchant and grist mills. It is desired to erect in connection with the
furnaces, rolling, saw and grist mills, if the company will do so. |
| To carry on these works, one
hundred negroes and the necessary teams will be exempted from
impressment, and also supplies for the same, in which will be included
the wives and children of the employees. Supplies may be purchased any
where without molestation. White persons, not to exceed twenty in
number, will be detailed, if they are such as the recent law authorizes
the secretary of War to make. The works are to be put in operation at
the earliest possible day, and the superintendent to make a sworn
statement monthly, to Col. Sims, setting forth the quantity of iron
produced and what disposition was made of it. |
| Atlantic Confederacy |
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