New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-06


great facility BY means Of cr.nes; and even m 1h op-
GRAFTON, which NAV be called The third time The paru
ar, definitely pronounced perfect essh by different
individual, it almos, invsrably happens that room
found for some sight additional corrections The &C.
cur.cy finally attained before the scale taken spart
and packed for market IL greater than would be sup
posed pos.ble. At the test IN the Crystal Paisee
fev months since So eco Ibs. weighed successvey
en- every portion Of the platform Of Fairbanks YAK
scsle snd the greatest variation rom the mean weign'
was kund to be three pounds The veigh+Ock scae''
ato when supporting sOaded csnal-boat weighing De-
tween 400 and 500 tuns Indicate with tosraoe correct
ness the weight Of man or Of bucket OF wafer
which may be added to it.
The finn embraces FIVE individuals al closely reis-
ted Erastas Fairbanks the senior partner formerly
Governor Of the State, Thsddeus Fairbanks 70 whom
il due the original invention and much Of the later pro
grt.s. and Charles, Horace and Franklin Fsirbank''
.o1s Of the E1-Goyernor the fret named OF whom
the head Of the branch house in this city and under
whose care at shop In Duane street, the smallest va
reties, such as druggists scales weighing single
drsebns and the Ike, are manufactured.
In 1892 the scales manufactured by this concern OF
St. Jobnsbury amounted, at far higher prices than now
to 49, CO., In ls42 the production had increased TO
AZ CO. an increase Of about so per cent in ~ years
or en- average Of about per cent each year. 10 1917
the suoupt had ncreased 10 1895 co., being gain OF
over 500 per cent or about IS per cent each year
showing the demand 10 increase in very rapid rano
ss the product became known The amount manuiae
tured durI the year just ended is estimated at slo
Geo. the iron consumed at Il coo tuns the cast steel at
80 tuns the copper ct 25i tuns and the charcoai 81
| q COO bushes with an indefinite quantity OF lumber
anthracite, etc. All clAsses of scales are now manu-
featured by this concern The propnetors have turned
cir ate niOD for many o-oisivsy IN the pro-
duction Of perfect weighing machines, and an almost
unexsmpled degree Of success has attended then yet
urreutt.d efoTts.
| Jpcs.sp S1EyL MAKIEG-THE NV PRocIssEs.-
The Bessemer process for making wrought iron, al
though attracting far less attention than few weeks
or months since as it is believed TO produce metal very
irregular in its quality VIII probably be tested this
week or next at the Cooper Iron Works in Pbilpsburg,
n j. the fret experiment in this country we believe,
in which this identical process has been attempted
We await the results with much interest
The American Magnetic Iron Company formerly
the " Harvey Iron Company of Mott Haven, are IN
dustrioully and quietly pushing forward, and 1t is
claimed that Improvements on the Harvey patent,
made by Mr. Miner the present Precedent, enables 1t
10 produce wrought iron direct from the ere at about
the same cost pig claim which, although stoutly
made for many rival projects s in this instance made
pcre ely tempting by the low cost of the apparatus
One Of thee furnaces, large enough 10 produce two
turs Of iron in "a hours be erected for about $500
80 that it possible by it's aid to manufacture iron IN
,oue localities on water privileges with very small
| capi,al The attention Of the Company seems, hsw-
ever 10 be most turned to the making OF steel owing,
pros.by TO the richness and purity Of the ore veins
ON their property and the works now capable OF
Producing about three tuns Of steel per day
The manufacture of steel by new processes, unless
they promise some previously unatainable perfection
in the quality il in the present state OF the ars OF far
less in por ance than chespeniDg of the iron manufac-
| tu,e. The sands of the earth, the water Of many
spring, ard streams, even the blood which courses IN
our veins ne full of iron the transforming Of which
into workable material IL demanded In h rapidly in
cres,ng ratio by the progress Of civilization. sue
cetsf process for producing materially cheaper iron,
would change the relations of affairs to an almost incon
ceysble extent. But il is not with steel readily
worked material stronger and harder than cast steel
might commence a new era in the arts, both Of peace
ard war; but while we would rot, for moment, IN
| deuate the immense importance of THE or o. cheap
| ern e. improving or more extensively employing the
Infinite variety Of inferior steek, and especially Of gu
peror irons We insist that the emphatcay great field
hes at the bottom Of the scale-n the cheapening OF
| con on anthracite iron. With harder and stronger
metal than we now poeses, or with cheaper and
more workable steel all kinds Of impossible
ma chins may be produced Coats Of mail may envel-
ope the diver gubbiDg for pearls in what are now the
hidden receses ofthe ocean and spunky engine. may
by bread, thin screws, impel the soaring traveller
syiter than the carrier dove above the heh
ms Of the then more EARLY tunnsed rocky mountains.
With cheaper metal than we now command, every
nile Of our struggling railroad system flashes at
into valuable property, and our street pavement
assume. permanent character easy either fer use or
removal 1t is impossible for human precedence 10 con-
pute the changes which might be wrought by either
such discovery and il is with difficulty that We can feel
how nuch Of the progress already realized is due 10
few similar steps initiated but few score years ago
| How many subsequent improvements are indirectly
due to the steam eI CINE of James Watt, and how d
recty tis-as also the development Of the tools
cessary to its neutrality-suspicious. on the cheap
eniDg Of iron by Lord Dudeys smelling furnace, which
occurred but round hundred years before.
or the new processes for chespenng steel, tie next
in importance TO Harveys and Miners, above alluded
TO- stand, John Neviles prOcess patented during the
pact week and IN successful small scae at the
Dsmatcus Steel COmpanys woke, near Port Rich
nc nd, Staten Island Damascus steel-now almost
fabulous nateralvts made direct from the by an
| expensive process only practicable on very email
scale. This invention, on the contrary, makes steel
direct from small scraps of wrought iron, by
son Of toleably cheapprOcers sometimes empIoyedto
ca.e harden CT steey the surface ofron arces. Prus
slate Of potash in contact with hot iron in clean fire.
converts the surface Of the latter into respectable steel
which hardened the ususl way by pungng 1t in cold
water, the interior remaining soft iron as before Mr.
Neville puts old iron scraps. using care in the seec