The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-03-01
ed, and the widow Of Col. W. L: Brown ap-
pointed to the position.
ROCK ISLAND AS A MANUFACTUR-
ING POINTS

ROCK ISLAND AS A MANUFACTURED
ING POINT,
During the last ton years we have often
urged upon our capitalists the importance
and advantages of establishing manufactor-
les for the various arts, in our city. We are
pleased to know 1t has not been without its
effect, but not to the extent the locality war
rants OF we hope to see. Perhaps ii will
startle some of our old fogy readers, and be
the means of opening the money bags of
some of the Rip Van Wrinkle capitalists when |
we say there is not a locality in the United
States, taking all things into consideration,
so fseorable for theSmanufaoture of iron, as
Rock Island. We have the market, that |
must be acknowledged. But it may be said: |
"Our coal is not good enough, it has too
much sulphuret of iron, slate, lime, &c. We
know it has-the old way OF smelling; but
we have been progressing of late. The
whole world has not been asleep. Mr.. Lie
mems, of England, invented and has,:at the
present time, in practical operation, in En-
gland and other parts of Europe, q number
of furnaces for the smelling of iron and other
metals. in which our poorest coal can be used
for producing iron not inferior to the best
charcoal of Sweden.
We will try to give some idea of this fur
mace: Instead of directly using solid coal
as fuel it has large gas generating furnace
consisting simply of a chamber, having q Pc
ouliar CRATE. The generator may be near or
at any convenient distance from the furnace,
and coal of worry inferior quality may be
| used in it. The conditions must be such that
carbonic oxide and oombustible hydro-car-
bons may be generated and conveyed through
| fiues into the interior of the furnace. One
great object of this furnace is to save and
transfer it's heat back into the furnace, and
this is done as follows; Near the furnace
sre erected four distinct fire brick cham bers,
each of which may be put in connection with
the interior of the furnace and the stack
Each chamber is filled with fire brick so that
air may everywhere circulate freely through
the entire mass. These are called ''regula-
| tive chambers" and have been raised TO q
high heat. Instead of allowing the gaseous
fuel to pass directly into the furnace it must
first pass through one of these heated cham
bers whereby its temperature is greatly ele-
waited, and that of the chamber lowered in a
corresponding degree. Air is only admitted
to support combustion, through the other
heated regenerative chamber, which is also
strongly heated. Thus both the gaseous fuel
and the air for burning it, enter the furnace
| at high temperature. But, while this is
going on, the product of combustion must, on
its way to the stack, be compelled to traverse
the other two cold regensrative chambers, to
which it will, in great measure. impart its
heat. When this shall have become heated.
the other two chambers will have cooled
Then the currents of the gaseous fuel and
the gas intended to support ombustion is
sent through the last heated chamber. Thus
the process may be continued, alternating,
from time to time, the directions of the cur
rents, and, as it were, arresting the
fugitive heat and returning it again to the
furnace So much is this the case that when
the interior of the furnace is at white heat
the tenn peraturs of the gases escaping from
the stack does not exceed three hundred de-
grees Fahrenheit. The temperature which
NAV be attained in this furnace is enormous,
ard may be regulated to a nicely. Professor
Faraday, in several lectures before the Royal
Institution, London, has spoken In the high
est terms of the practieability of this fur
mace.
With this simple and beautiful invention
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lever that will move the metallic world A
pure heat that can be- used, not only for smelt
ing iron and copper, but for the manufacture
of glass, of which We may speak more, at
another time. Having provided the calorio
for our iron manufacture We need q FINK to
reduce the ore, and this We have almost with
in our city limits. Prof. Whitney when en-
gagged in making the geological survey of
Iowa, made an analysis of the rock which
proved to be 96.77 carbonate of lime He
says it is the pnrest limestone that has been
found in the whole western country. Tho
iron ore Wisconsin can supply in any amount
and of the best quality. The ores we now
speak of are the red oxide, containing 47:27
of metallic iron; and the specular and mag
netic, containing 44:82 of metallic IRON
These are found ON Black river, within four
miles of fiat boat navigation of the Miss.
issippi. Col. E, Daniels, late state geologlst
of Wisconsin, in speaking of the above ores
says the red oxide and magnetic ores fuxed
with lime work well, and that two tons of the
ore will yield one of pig iron. He also esti-
mates the amount of ore, at this point, at
43 900. 900 tons of available ore. Other de-
posits exist in the vicinity which will be no
doubt valuable in time lint are less fs voysh,v