New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-16

the undivided bali Of the 400 acres. Az, 49,,
bic delay the court divided the land into ~,
and the Company supow ered their agent Ia az.
original owner $500 for the right Of sr,s 49,,
which he refused, and, as it happened .isg,l.sS'
chose the vey half they did not want. Within 70
the original owner has sold out his half 10 o.b.v
ties-reserying fifteen acres-for t65,000l H.,
the tract valued in 1916 at not more than snn
1856 is estimated as worth over $50 600. Th, |.
below its re al present cost value, and show, no,
derfully these coal lands have incre ssed in yalp.
Col Scranton pushed his pet road through "a ~
Great Bend. Coal lands anywhere in this v,s;,s'
which hteen wears sgo would no; bring els an 49,.
are now worth $500. This is an interesting item.
We cannot close this article without glance q. d.
great Iron Mills in full blast. The first thns a.,
struck us in visiting the mills ccsLOpenins 49,,
in a few rods of the furnaces, with rai-,rack. q,
the opposite side Of the MILL within hundred f.,
a new opening, where large quantities of coal Ar No.,
cured. But TO begin with the blastfumaces, ". "A
ticed that two are 10 blast. One Is rnlen,,;,.
repairs ard that one new one is building The .,a.
of these NAV be inferred from the diameter. If d.
6osle, which are respectively Is II, Is and 20 g..
with hight Of 80 feet The wind forced into ,A..,
furnaces By double, connected leyesbeam ensin..os
great power. The steam cy finders are 81 niche. i,
diameter The two blowing cylinders are ITO incb.,
in diameter with ten feet stroke. The wind is fore,
by this apparatus into the furnaces, under an syer,s.
pressure Of he. to the square inch. The A.
wheel which regulates the movements Of this A.
paratus weighs ~ 600 pounds. In order to have power
to drive all the furnaces and TO be safe Against &c.,
dents the company are now preparing to build another
blowing apartment. The pair Of engines will be fur.
nshed with cylinders 80 inches in diameter, and n.
blowing cylinders will be 90 inches. Each engine isn
have two hy-whees 2S feet in diameter aud to wess
IS, 0CO pounds. BY this power they viii be able 10
force the air into the furnaces under pressure Of or
9 lbs to the square inch-a great Advantages s
found BY experiment that, in order for furnace to
Weld to the greatest advantage, it must not only have
certain amount of air. but that the air must be intro
duced under heavy pressure. Another thing struck
us: this air, instead of being introduced At three
places, as in ordinary furnaces, is forced in at from
nine to twelve places. The advantage of this as'ge-
ment is supposed be the equal diffusion Of the
air throughout the stack.
When the four furnaces are in full blast, theyvl
smelt about GO eco tuns of ore year, OF which Oa-
third procured near Scranton, one|hrd from One,
County, New York, ard the remainder from the mss.
York and New.Jersey are brought back in the empt,
coal cais-a very neat arrangement, by which they
carry coal and bring back ore. The seida ore is
boated On the Chonango Canal to Binghamton, and
there transferred to the cars. The jersey ores are
obtar ed in Warren County, at the mines near Oxford
Furnace. This amount of ore will produce some -.
eco tuns Of pig metal. The limestone for lux has
been procured heretofore in the vicinity OF Scranton
and from New-York; but now an uncommony pure
article is found near the Water-Gap, which will be
used in future.
A little above the blast-furnaces, on tho Roaring
Brook. we come to the Rolling Mills. These contaia
some Thirty three Thirty five pudding furnaces, which
are arranged on floor which is story hgherthan The
stands of rolls We were rather astonshed to notice
that the balls from these furnaces were prepared ios
the rolls by the old.fashioned slow process Of the
soueezer. Winslow's Rotary would come In wei for
such place. The rolling of balls into bars the cut
ting and faggoting ore done on the same floor with
the heating furnaces. The principal product Of the
mills is in ralroad bars, of which about 5000 tuns
are made year. In addition to this, some . 800 %
3 coo tuns Of merchant iron and also considerable
amounts of railroad spikes and chains are made.
The furnaces and mills estimated to consume the
enormous amount of 100 900 tuns Of coal year-o mine
which and cary it to the works costs about 81 tun.
This does not include its value in the mine. In the
furnaces and mills about 500 hands find employment,
and 2CO more in the coal department. Beside ihese
the eompanys mnchne-sbOp employs 30 hands and,
among them all, from $2j 900 TO $50 900 q month are
dsbursed-a very handsome sum, truly to be scat.
tered on spot which 70 short time since was VII
demess.
The company own some 1900 acres of coal Isnd',
and 5000 of ore and woodlands. From the Report OIL
the General Agent Of the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western Railroad, we learn that in the vicinhyd
Scranton there are eleven coal cOmpanies-the est
mated product Of which, this year, is over boc~
tuns, and in another year they will be able to rass
over 600 900 tuns As interesting, We also inquired
as to the actual amounts of coal sent away by rail-
road and learned that the first year tlS5) the road~
Great Bend opened, OO0O tuns Of coal were sent
to market in 1852 about 5000 tuns were sent 10
1855 about u.s. 0O0 tuns sept aud they are now
sending northward to Great Bend 40 600 tuns mcn'n'
On the Southern Division, toward the Delaware, they
ore sending about five trains day, OF 2S 'aas
eacl THAT is, some $50 tuns day, or some U"s
tuns a month. When the double track is compiesSe
to Great Bend and ElizsbethtOwn Point, we suppose
that il will be capable of sending at least
tuns year toward New-York City, and ~ large az
amount toward Lake Erie. II is a great enterprise
and the energy with which il has been prosecued ~
serves TO be crowned with complete success; aad We
do not doubt but it will