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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1890
Page
2
News in Johnson City with health updates on Secretary Tracy resuming navy duties, discussion of Elizabethton railroad, and local polling and campaigning. Reports include Alf Taylor seed trade, extra legislative session announced, and Democratic momentum for Congress with Flower and McRea in leadership roles.
Carnegie Iron Company under Gen. J. T. Wilder begins a 1.5-ton blast furnace project in Johnson City. Contracts for draughting are near completion, site work starts, and employment for about 500 workers will rise to around 1000 as the two furnaces progress. Concrete plans include 42 inch steam engines, large boilers, and a 160 foot smokestack, with construction on the King farm on a twenty acre site. Johnson City anticipates rapid prosperity from this industrial push.
A fragmented 1890 publication lists hardware firm reminders from C.K. Wide & Co and Lide & Co, an oyster supper for charity at Washington Prilege, and a Knoxville official notice about train time tables and flag stops across several stations. It also notes the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company annual meeting in Jefferson City with directors to be elected.
A crowded vintage ad lists two elegant business houses for sale on Main Street with low prices and easy terms, plus multiple residences and tracts near the city. It urges 100 rental houses immediately, advertises 28 acres in the city at 350 dollars, and promotes a wide array of groceries, shoes, and produce for barter at No. 8 Market Street.
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