Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-08-26
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Cleveland now presents the be st opening for
blast furnaces in the West, there being none in
the place, and the amount Of pig iron used in
Cleveland and vicinity exceeding what several
furnaces would make besides the open market
Of the Lakes Pig iron can be made cheaper in
Cleveland than anywhere else and brought
here and Of any quality wanted for its varioT.ss
uses. The foundation of the iron Business on
the Lakes, and in the coal regions adjacent, is
the Lake Superior ore, the peroxyde of iron
with only 4 or 5 per cent, of silica or foreign
matter, and no deeterious substances, and
working 67 per cent. into pig iron. This ore
can be delivered at Cleveland at So per ton,
and other ores suitable for mixtures either in a
slight degree to afford sufficient cinder, or more
largely to effect the quality of the iron, can be
had at prices, considering per centage, not ex,
ceejing that of the Lake Superior ore, such as
the bog ore Of the Lake shore; the Burnt
Black Band from Tusearawas county the
Black Oxyde Magnetic from Canada, and the
Hematite from Northern New York--thus the
cost Of the ore to the ton Of Iron will not cx.
ceed from 81 to Ss, and mineral coal, Brier
He'll, the best yet discovered for reducing ore,
can be had at a cost of IS so to the ton of
metal, and pure limestone from the Islands at
5 ! per ton, making the whole cost of materials
for ton Of iron not to exceed from Sl3 to Sl4,
and these will produce the most superior min
eral coal iron ever made in any country, suita-
BILE to all uses, as regulated by the mixtures;
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! here as it can be brought from other places, by
shipping the wood and oharriug 1t il kilns-
and with this fuel and these ores, iron aud
steel can be made of equal quality, and to as
much advantage as at any place in this or any
other country. Iron men will understand that
mineral coal iron can be made as these prices
tor materials at less than $50 per ton, and char
coal iron coal costing six cents per bushel, at a
sum not much exceeding 500 This then is the
state of affairs that now exist in Cleveland to
induce the erection Of blast furnaces
A Furnace costing S25,O00 will make with
these materials from five to six thousand tons
Of metal annually, and will be a better article
than that supplied to this market at average
prices of S25, and which is as low as it ever
can be afforded from other places and Oleve.
land can never be riyalled, if it can ever be
qualled, Ia the manufacture of pig iron. Now
it may be asked why have furnaces not been
erected here. This, perhaps, is not question
Of easy solution. Accident may have had
| something to do with it in the FIRST instance, by
the iRterloping OF ignoramuses and decevers,
who have wasted the peoples money 20 the
tune OF S5O,OOO in their miserable experiments,
and cast dscredit on the business Then the
people Of Cleveland have had notion that
1t was better to swap jack-knives than to make
them and that trade and traffic, and buying
and selling stocks, (Beeiontaine) and setting
up shave shops, was better than manufacturing;
and as they seemed to be cpnteut, outsiders NAV
have concluded they would be. But the facts
now stand out so plain that the waylanng man
NEED not err, and 1t is fair to presume that this
important point to manufacture iron will not be
much longer overlooked.