| From the Richmond Sentinel |
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| February 15, 1864 |
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| An Important Manufacturing Enterprise |
| [From the Lynchburg Virginian] |
| The increase and extension of
manufacturing establishments is one of the most gratifying signs of
the times, and promises well for the future of the Confederacy. |
| Among others, one is now being projected
here of great importance. It is an iron manufacturing enterprise, to
combine rolling mill, furnace foundry, car wheel factory, &c., all
on the largest scale ever known in this or any other country. It is to
be located at Ives' Dam, a few miles above the city, where there is
water power enough to turn the machinery of the world. This work has
been under contemplation for a number of years, but it is only
recently that it has assumed tangible and practical shape. A number of
gentlemen of enterprise and unlimited means have it in hand, and will
not spare either in pushing it forward to success. The importance of
this work to the country cannot be over-estimated. |
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