Litchfield enquirer., 1859-07-28

on their capital and labor; palpably to stop the working of these ore-beds, is, to throw the lrishmen who labor in them, out of work and out of bread. The solidarity of the interests of employers and employed, is very striking !; d divorce is impossible.; the laws of nature have united them, and the one cannot suffer without causing suffering to the other also. Such being the case, the miners did we'll to send Mir. Everts, the clerk of the works on Ore Hill, to represent them in oar Legislature
 in 1857 they would do well to send no man to Washington or Hartford, who favors free trade in iron which is but another term, for giving good job to Wales or Sweden, in preference to our own citizens The man who does not know enough to look after his own
 interests, will never find any one to attend to that job ill this world we must befriend ourselves, if we are 70 have any friends.
 The Salisbury ore-bcds are in the first place leased from the owners of the fee simple, who are farmers and wood-choppcrs, aud grant permits or leases running with the land and in the nature of a perpetual easement on tho soil, to extract all minerals that can be found in the tract The searchers for the ore 60 not want the fee-simple, but take perpetual leas- es it is true, that in working the leases, the ore-diggers ruin the farm ; they gully it up, and scarify old mother Earths face, most sad ly; but they pay as they go; and the ore bed pays better than the farm. If no ore is found, nothing is paid if much is found, much is paid the risk and expense of search ing for the orc, fall upon the men who take the leases. The hills about Salisbury are un- dcrlaid with iron, in all directions but the question to be solved by practical trial alone, is, how much iron is there, and how near the surface does it lie If it lies too deep, it will cost more to get at it, than it will be worth when it is got. The Salisbury ore is the black or brown hematite, found ill masses 6, and 10 feet thick, imbedded in clay, and irregular in it's shape, and in the course of the lead. The ore is worth $250 to $275 per ton at the mouth of the ore bed. The men who work the ore bed, pay the proprIesors of the lease $l per ton extracted, and get about $l.50 for their labor in digging, raising and washing the ore. In s.risk times, 1000 tons of ore have been taken from an ore-bed in year but at present there is no inducement to crowd the business. The orc yields forty per cent of iron, so that 9 tons of ore will make one ton of iron. Such is the average, on large scale, although specimens may be found yielding 75 per cent. of iron. There is less ore being extracted this year than last j; and there was less last year than the year be- fore and 50 back to 1855 aud 1856, when every thiug was brisk The Salisbury pig iron cannot be made for less than $28 per ton, first cost to the furnace owner. Being sneltcd by charcoal, and being of very superior tough ness to the foreign pig iron, it sells for $35 to $40 in the New York market At the Davis ore-bed, machinery is used to wash and sort the ore at other places it is done by hand. Steam engines are used to raise the water from the ore-beds, and to drive the sorting machine " at the Davis ore-bed. Every thing is man. aged as frugaIly as loug experience and emi- nent natural gifts in that line, can show how the water is ingenously made to do service, as many times over as possible, in the orewasll-' ings and is caught in artificial ponds at eve ry shower, so as to make every thing tell and Yet, it is palpahle, that Salisbury iron cannot compete with Scotch pig in the New York market; it is from it's quality alone that it continues salcable. And it's tenacity under tension, emiuently fits it for purposes requir- ing great toughncss The tires of locomotive driving-wheels, the locomotive cranks, and the axles of cars, made of this iron, are unrivaled for safety and strength. s