New-York daily tribune., 1844-09-09
TIL r r B Z y T..
r,.,, Railroad Iron.
a AmerfCuH EN"Iff 49,
Correspondence oft New YORK American.

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Mor,r SAVAGE lRoy WORKS, tMd.} AuS: ISL
have derived 50 much pleasure IRON Witness
;,r the manufacture of american Roiroad iron
., The AMOUNT Savage Iron Works" near Cum
berland, Md. that | cannot refrain from calling
vour attention to the subject at ,hls time, when so
much is said in relation 10 "Protecuon TO s.mc-
mean Manufactures" The American people have
paid many millions of dollars TO the foreign manu-
facturers for railroad iron-and, but Tor The pre-
sent Tariff, would pay them many millions more
within the next ten years; whereas with The pre-
sent Tariff we shall heresite. make most OF cur
own; and what is still better, as in this case,
mainly with foreign capital.
Beng on & visit to Baltimore, last week, visit
ed the Cumberland coal and iron regions, mainly
to see the operation of rolling railroad iron. With
letters of introduction to Col. Young, formerly o.
the Ulster and West Point Iron Works, and IN
company with several gentlemen from Baltimore
who were enjoying the COIL hreezes OF tfoslburgh,
was shown every part of this immense estab-
lishment, which now employs, in It's various de-
partments, over tpe hundred men, and supports
a population of near t,1o thousand persons.
The plan OF operations, we understand, en-
braces twelue furnaces, with rolling mills and
other works to correspond; out at present, two
only of the furnaces are erectcd-tiie largest be.
other of nearly the same dimensions. One lm-
1nense rolling mill with two sets of rollers and
or 9 pudding furnaces, in which thev are now
rolling beside other IRON, from 25 to 80 tons per
day of railroad bars OF the btidgc form, weighing
AS pounds 10 the yard--desjgncd for their own
use in laying road from their works 10 connect
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Cum
bcrland, about 10 miles. ] witnessed the opera
ton Of rolling these bars weighing about 800 lbs
each, which was Gone apparently with great
ease and from what / there saw, | ani free 10
say that, with the present Protection upon Iron,
we shall be able in less than FIVE years, to furnish
all the Railroad iron required IN this country, al
prices less than we imported it when duty free.
The facilities here for manufacturing cl:eapiy
cannot be surpassed, If equallcd-witb the OK.
ception of cost of labor-cven in Eng land. lho
furnaces are situated at The base oil hill, and so
far below the entrance to the coal nilnes and ore
beds, and lime stone quarry, which require no "a.
fort to drain thcm that the cafs with these ma
terals may be brought 10 the mouth Of the fur
neces by grevity; and the rolling mill is st. lo'g
er than the furnaces, 50 that the pigs" may be
taken there in the same mapner. Inc descent
from these works to Cumberland is nearly J00
feet to the mile, so tina. a locomotive will take
down more loaded cars than II can take back
empty ones.
This Company have q contract, we were IN
formed, with the Baltimore and ONO Railroad
Company, to transport Is tons per day, of coal
and iron, for five years, at the cost of ] cents
per ton per rnile or So, ,GI per ton to Baltuuore-
and probably, u much greater amount will lindit'
way 10 tide water by the Chesapeake and Ono
Canal, when it shall be, as it surely vii! soon be,
completed to Cumberland-thus giving life ano
energy to enterprise, and employment 10 thou
sands through the instrumcntahty CT this on'
Company, who draw their capital wholly, | be
lieye, from the other side of the Atlantic.
Yours truly, y. X. MINOR.