The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-01

Important DiscoUery in Pennsylvania
The Bessemer Process prd6a6ly Suppressed
ed.
From the New York Tribune.
The fertile, thrifty, wealthy ole
county of York, Pennsylvania, lies across
the Susquehana from Lancaster, and ii
watered by the Codorus, Conewago and
other tributaries of that broad bosomeG
river The rich valley of the Codorul
and its tributaries is largely undertake
by deposit of the favorite iron ore
known as brown hematite, which, though
but little iron has yet been smelted IL
this unprogressive country, is largely
mined and sent away to mix with Other
and generally poorer ores-immenst
quantities of it being daily sent to tht
great works of David Thomas and Others
in the distant valley of the Lehigh.
From this valley there rises, in the
township of North Codorus, range OF
rounded slipping hills, which have been
long known to contain and in good part
consist of a peculiar micacious ore but
little success and no profit has attended
its conversion into iron, since it yields
but thirty to thirty five per cent. of metal
and this of poor quality. At length il
was ascertsined- more by luck, we
believe, than by scientific induction
that this unpromising ore, being mixed
with middling pig iron in an ordinary
reverberatory furnace at the rate of one
to six, world produce, by the ordinary
pudding process, a pure steel of admir-
bic quality, and remarkably uniform in
character Z e84 Khgla oa aEss
We visited on Monday the range OF
hills in question--estimated to contain
seventeen millions Of tons of this unique
ore. and looked into dozen different
shafts or drafts which have been sunk or
run into the hill nearest Hanover juno
tiou on the Northern Central railroad
distant two miles.) The branch road TO
Gettysburg runs al the southern base
of the entire range. aaT The ore, up tn
thousands of tons per day, can be mined
and loaded directly into cars for Balti-
more, Philadelphia or New York, at a
cost Of 81 per ton. Being thrown down
by blast or pick, mainly In the form of
boulders of medium tenaclty, it will IN
time be largely shipped as ballast, and
so transported to European as we'll rs
American furnaces.
The owners of the mine have Just com
pleted at New York pudding furnace
and rolling-mill, wherein we witnessed
the conversion of medium Pennsylvania
pig iron, worth $50 per ton into steel
that would certainly be cheap at $3.50
per ton. For ten tons of this steel, the
material required would be eleven tons
of pig iron, costing $500, and two tons of
Codorus ore, costing $20-together $500.
Add ten tons of bitun,inous coal, costing
$50, and $3.50 for labor and all other
expenses, and very choice steel rail
ought to be made, by the help of this ore,
at cost of $50 per ton.
We call the attention of railroad men
and all interested in Metallurgy to this
wonderful discovery. They can test its
merits in an ordinary reveberatory fur
mace by simply buying few tons of the
Codorus ore, and attempting by its aid to
convert ordinary pig iron into choice
steel at a single heat, by simple processes
with which they are perfectly familiar.
If they have the requisite machinery for
rolling them, they will of course next try
their hand at converting their blooms
into rails. But they are not required to
buy mines, nor to erect new works, nor
to take anything on trust. If they doubt
that steelis made as above set forth,
York is not far off and the furnace afore,
said is spacious, and open to all corners.
Their own eyes are not likely to mislead
them. e6 M1a 2
That the steel made as aforesaid, at a
cost which cannot reach $50 per ton, is Of
choice quality, were assured by COL
Boyer of Pottsville, who has no interest
in this discovery, and never visited the
mines till Monday, but who has used the
product in tool-making for his machine
shops, where only the very best steel will
answer His statements need no confr-
nation but have received it.
We count the Bessemer process super
seeded by this discovery, whereby per-
feet steel is produced, with no risk of
failure, and at q cost considerably less
than that of the famous British process.
And We trust That other and equally
triumplis in the che mixture
an manipulation of ores will derive
their impulse from this. t
CoEREcT AN exchange says "What
is an edltorg Why, he is Il man who
reads newspapers, writes articles on any
subject, sets type, reads proof, folds pa
pers, runs erTands, sweeps out the office,
draws water, saws wood. works in the
garden, talks to all who call, is blamed
for hundred things which is nobody's
but his own, works from 2 a. m. to 10 D.
M, helps people to get into office (who
forget all about it afterwards) and FIRE
quently gets cheated out of half his earn
lngs. He puffs and does more to build
up town than anybody else, and the
miser and fogy are benefited thereby, yet
they will say the editors paper is of no
account will not advart;ea or +oLa tba