Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-06-07

e5H5eTor the benefit OF that portion oil our
community so largely interested in the iron
trade, We copy from the New York Tribune The
following article on its origin and progress:
ssIYe have seen that tine production of iron
received its first decided impulse from the dis
coyery of the process of making the carburet or
pig metal about the 18th century, but that the
product nevertheless Continued insignificant
K down to 1740 Fac reason for this Is found Ia
the fisnfiSiency OF rapid destruction of fuel
As vet; charcoal was tte Oasy Eisl. employed IN
or supposed adequate to the rsigctiolof the
Stubborn ores and modern inrnaec using char
coal would sweep country eleaI. Of wood IN g
dozen years, and than be npellei to suspend
Operations for want Of fuel. bud Dudley, "a
Eng.ishnian, was the hfst successful; to app
ply mineral (bituminous) coal to the work Of
smelling; but the value of this important dis
coycry was very tardiy appreciated In lT5G
It's merit was acknowledged; and in 1863 the
tlrst blowing cyiiIdarS We're erected, whereby
single furnace WAS made 20 yield ], O00 tuus oil
metal per annum, or thrice the product OF q
charcoal furnace of equal capacity In 1888,
the total product Of Great Britain had risen to
tS, 3O0 ttins--thnt Is, it had qnadrupled in the
preceding Evrty-eignt years. At this time, Watt
siuyentedf the steam engine; which emancipatedi
the iron business from its DEF G ldsnce ON water
power, and permitted the erection Of furnaces
wherever. the raw material could most adyan-
tstgeously be concentrated. rhe iron product
Of Great Britainw nov donbied in eight years,
reaching l25,O0o tais in 1896. In ten years
more It had doubled again, reaching 25s,000
tans in 1896; the furnaces aserag . 81 tuns
per annurn, while the best produced 800 tuns
per annu.n, or nice times that of sixty years
/ back At this time, barely 50 y ears agol Mr..
Hewett estimates the total prodnct OF =the world
at one half million tuns per ahntn, or no
more thanshalf the present product Of the Uni-
ted States alone
ed BY Henry Corts invention of the process of
tpuddliug that Is, converting cast into wrought
iron il. feverbera Furnaces and of derihg
1.-THE rough mss thus obtained into perfect bars
| by sing Il between gTooged oilers This adj
vance, without tlich railroads, iron ships, and
we may add iron beams for lirc proof buildings
could not have been practicable, was etfectedthy
I tune and Of tue happiness Vi his lie Whenhe
had Just perfected and proved his invention, ct
kaSc6st OF s. 600, lis partner became apublie
Edsfitlttfs Tor 81 q. "a iylcfeupon his pateats
lwerc seized BY thu G government and 50 tied up
ias 10 eellile for tie time thsis utility and Of
iconrse their pf0ane iis Gort died brokenf
hearted ON q pension ct 8 600 per annum; but
/ his widow. Such was the fortune ofa man who
has done more for mankind tlian al the yictori-
tous warriors from Ninrod to Peiissier. It Is
I not too much 10 say that of the Three and .
Half Millions OF ttns OF ton made last year by
Great Britain, one half would have remained IN
the ore-beds but the genius and resolution OF
i Henry Coft An glish writer estimates the
clear profit already realized BY British mine
i owners Ia consequ encc OF his inventions at no
less than Sixty Millions of Dollars aud that
the eountrv has been entiehed by him to the
extent Of not less than ii6een Hundred Millions
Of Dollars
The next great I'd sspee was the introduction
in 1899 OF che hot blast Whereby the guam
Il tity Of e6al required IN Scotland TO pro-
4 tluce ! turn 6i pig reluced from eight turns
10 tsso and two-thigSis he inventor Nelson,
was conpelled 70 rights in q most ex.
pensive and ptgtractea law suit Which was
Carried up on appeal to tue House O. Lords,
4 where his claims were conelusiyely affirmed
rhe Messrs, Bairds, pro lietors Of the Gartsh'
erie NYorks-sHho hay e tgozn being day lsboyers
become the saltfiest manufactures IN the
4 world making iO1, az Of pig per 1nnunl-tle
A upon fled his elaira II danag for Infringe.
Hmentsby check On the Bank Of Englaid fol
S15V, 06o.
The next and lSst iniportsn improvement 10
A Iron-mak VAS the use ia lsS Of anthracite
coal ia smelling the ores Just about = century
q Dndey had stisces ally appied BitQnil-
& this atlyanee Is q elsh ifon-Illas tes natied
sane dough he admits that w ssSisea'
ieiinsFo 81 Ills city lsd patented tic process
tSuf Stsfs cs4iier. but lad not yet Induced any
rs nut K into ecthn operation. giTe erefsil
ilso IL tho late Nicholas Isl loie III lisier-
,llV aided, by money and i1liuence, the succg
II tins process While 70 Edwin Postct our city
nceordc lille crelit OF nnf5ng liIst success tnAi
melted tac l1rn nssrel'e efss o. NeN sssssyi