New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-21
UIHGOTRAGNG.
enemies.

A recent British journal thus discOurscs az
new process for chcapening the productions
of Steel by an American, of whom we know
no more than is set forth in the aItice, where
from we extract as follows:
"THE SHERMAN PRoCTss.-Durng the pust few years,
the ironmaking public hare had brought bsfOrc them so
many processes for purifying iron manufacturing 1t
into steel, with less wonderful results that the
advent Of process, unless it be possessing more
than orilry claims 10 notice, has almost ceased to at
tract any general attention Notwithstanding this, how
evrr IL /, an undoubtedaos that there is stu ample
room for improvements in car various methods OF
iron and steel making, and, particularly IN there
wanted means Of turning 90 better account inc
0w-cass irons produced in many disrlcts AmonE the
many workers In this field Ia Mr. Edwin shermars who
has lately arrived in this country for the purpose VI In
trodrcng here process, OF which he IL the inventor
and with which, il is stated successful results have
already been obtained in America. Mr.. Sherman has
visited England at the invitation of our Governments,
conveyed through the British legation at Washington;
earlier trials OF his process made by him since
his conducted &c the request of tho
Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty and partly under
the supervision Of one Of their officers"
Why should this Mr.. Sherman have foundit
necessary, or even advisable, TO leave his own
country in order to secure o. fair trial of his
process? Why should " the British legation at
Washington" and the Lords Commissioners
" of the Admiralty take so much interest IN
an American invention, while no one in tits
county seems t0 have given any heed to it 2
Shall an American inventor never have %
chance of consideration mt home until he has
secured the stamp of British APPRECIATION We
know nothing OF the value Of this Sherman
process, but regret that it had to cross the
ocean for trial and Judgment.
LII, IL. e
Codorus Ore, fusmd near York, Pa, have been
sent to and tested in Great Britain, with most
satisfactory results. Mr.. Shsrmans process,
we learn, consists Of infusing a small quantity
of certain cheap chemicals into the molten
mass or bloom of Pig Iron, whereby certain
dalcteriOus minerals are eliminated, ans the
conversion OF the mass into good Steel
rendered easy and certdn. The CO.
dbrus Ore, being put Into the furnace
with the Pig Iron in the proportion of one TO
five, effects a like conversion, prccipitating
whatever Phosphorus inheres in the metal and
passing it of in the Stag, and thus producing
| II choice Steel for all uses at smaller coss
than that Of the Bessemer product whereof
the uses are limited. Now we do not know
that practical difficulties. may not Le encoant-
cred IN working under the Sherman
process or in using the Codorus Ore; bat it
seems 20 MS that iron-Inasters generally should,
M q rule, make themselves familiar with
every such invention or discovery, with intent
to utilize it if found available. Buying pat
ents or discoveries is quite another
matter; but whoever makes Iron or
Steel should know all that is to DO known
with reference 20 his art, so as to be GER
tain that he does not work to disadvantage
when compared with his business rivals. We
honor British legations and Lords Commission
ers of the Navy for their attention to such
matters; bat we hope for day wherein Ameri-
can inventors and discoveries will not need the
patronage of either