Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-08-31

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oHIO.-samuel h. Kimball, Treasurer and
general Manager, VIM, Kelly, President
Mr.. X. is the Douglas nominee for Governor
in the State of New York, and is the largest
stockholder in this establishment
The stack of their blast furnace is 80 feet
square at the base, by as feetin hight above
the hearth and containing bosh IA feet in
diameter. This stack is built Of rough cut
stone The two stock houses are each 40 by
80 feet, one for iron ore and one for COAL
The casting house is AZ by 20 feet. The iron,
after being cast, is cooled and loaded upop
a movable track, and from thence run along
a stationary track to the canal, for shipment.
The hosting house is 20 feet square, and
higher than the stack. Here the stock is
raised to the platform at the tunnel-head by
eiB5#Fnste i iI f this e6dhFT ny it-se5
a considerable extent in England.
1t consists Of a boiler plate cylinder 4 feet
in diameter and I5-feet long, closed at the
top, which rises and falls vertically in a
well 5]k feet wide and 20 feet deep, filed
with water. 4 small blast tube from the
air reservoir deseends- the side of the well to
the bottom, turns and aseends in the center
of the cylinder nearly to its top. By turn
the blast through this pipe the cylinder is
inflated, and rises like gasometer. From
the head of the cylinder stands mast 50
feet high, which is geared near the upper
end to the axle of the wheel from which the
platforms are suspended. Upon the plat
form barrows of ore or coal areplaced, and
the rising of the cylinder IA festturning the
wheel and axle at the top, carries the plat
form, with its load, distance of AZ feet, to
the level of the tunnel head platform. The
engine house is 26 by % feet, and about q
feet in height. The machinery and engine
were made at the Cuyahoga Works, Cleve-
land. It is equal in capacity to 100 horse
power, and can be worked by steam from
three or six 40 foot boilers These boilers
and the hot blast are heated by gas from the
furnace. e.5-rJ F-- os.s-s
The average quantities of ingredients used
in the blast furnace per day, are AZ tons Briei
Hill coal, IS tons Lake Superior iron ore, two
tons limestone, two tons furnace cinders, and
a little clay. From these "A tons of pig irOr
are produced, of good quality. The Goa
d pay roll ranges from $1,000 to $4,000. pei
month. adv
This furnace is now operated daily by 81
men, divided into alternate gangs of Is each
that relieve each other, once in u hours
Their iron is all shipped to Pittsburgh, via
Pennsylvania and Ohio canal. The coal on
track, directfrom the Brier Hill Mines, is rur
into the second story of coal house. anC
dumped below, through self adjusting
opening in the bottom of the cars. Eael
: brings from % to tons of coal at a time
E and or 5 cars compose train, drawn by
mules or horses, worked tandem. The Goa
is all weighed on the scales adjoining thei
Office, the weigher standing within DOORS
i The Himrod Co. are busy building a secon,
, stack of brick cassd with boiler iron. It
of the same. size as the<oe in full blast, an
known among furnace men as the hot blast
raw coal furnace, such as commonly used
! This one viii probably be completed, and il
successful operation the first of next Nove'n
Il Der. The walls of this stack viii contain 200
900 brick There are 20 men engaged in i
erection, embracing artisans and laborer
and a blacksmith to keep the tolls sharp
The ore is run to the works OD the company
switch and delivered from the c. & \
cars into the stock houses. The business ofRc
. Of this concern is located north Of the fu
: mace and is 20 by A feet in width, and OF
. . story high. This company east twice in :
hours; "a. N, and P. N. 40
The following are the joint stoekhOlds
.e and partners i
Wm. Kelly, President; Geo. Green, vi
d. President; VIM. Van Arsdale, Secretary
> Saml Fl. Kimbal, Treasure Ei David HimrO
resident Manager.
=. We are under many obligations to A.
= Cornell, book-keeper, for much of the abo
: lniorma'ifonar INV. lELLL
ID The Perry Monument Committee respec
ds fully invite the clergy Of the city, and t
be clergy from abroad who may visit the ci
ty on the 18th of September, to assist in giivil
character to the day, BY joining in.ths pr
t. eession and taking seats on the platform d
!. ring the exercises. -57a.91 assa
Aug. 30. By order Of Committee.