The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-10
Terms $500 per AMMAN, in adyonon

| this holding back on his part aud leayino ma
! to provide all the means as best L could for
prosecuting our enterprise was a sufficient
reason in itself for terminating our contract
yet when he offered to compromise by taJ<ino
portion of my patent right for and exercis.
Ing it liz the Dominion of Canada or selling
II and cancel the contract in reference to Eu-
rope gladly accepted his offer. The contract
,Gr europe was given up and a new one made
Svo,l.; niln the largest part of the profits of
working or selling the right TO work INV pro-
TaS. III .he Dominion of Canada and DR.. q. +.
nrnooss 80 %. not W now own single penny in my
| r. Ceo III europe or anywhere else outside
| oi Canaqa. L was greatly disannointed in
nun lor iound him without Influence or hrsl
| he lett the country. ""en
But The most extraordinary flight of imaoi-
nation upon which the new firm of Tefft. a.
wood u Co., have yet entered is the FOLLOWING
fool-hardy adventure heralded in the Portland
Adoertiser Of Dec. 1870.
"Mr Sherman has now taken out a pa,ent
in England of which he owns three fourtbs and
DR.. Tetft one fourth. DR.. Tefft returned to this
country abont two months ago when be and
Mr.. Atwood took out patent for the United
States. The right is owned by the following
persons: DR.. Tefft one-fourth, James Il. At
wood one eighth, Thomas N. Egery,. an iron
FOUNDER OF Bangor. ore-fOurth, Dudley +.
Leavitf, George M. Weston and VIM. III. Smith
OF Bangor, each OF e-eighth. A emanufac.
tory has been built at Bucksport where they
are now manucturinfi tool steel and MIR. Egg
cry is also manufacturing various articles at
ms foundry In Bangor; among other expert
ments being new steel wheel One or
Two firms in Pittsburg have taken hold of the
process and it will shortly be introduced else
where. Before many months an attempt will
De made to organize company tor the manu-
facture OF steel under the new process in New
York city,"
Il is very evident from the tone Tat the ar
ticle from which tho foregoing paragraph was
token was inspired, if not actually written
by the leading spirit of the pretended COM
pany therein named yet every statement IL
contains, so far as they relate to me, is autter
| ly and entirely false and without shadow of
truth to rest upon. DR.. Tetft does not own a
traction OF my English, or any other of my
European or American patents. He left
England in the latter part of July last and If
he and Atwood have taken out a patent for
my process in America they have gained a
knowledge of my discoveries urreptitiouslv
and are using information thus obtained to-
my injury without my knowledge or consent
as they will learn to their cost when return
to America in the coming spring or early sum-
mer to make arrangements for working INV
process there. The article leads its readers to
suppose that the steel works at Bucksport
were built and are now carried on by the per-
sons named as the owners of my process in
America, when the truth is, not one of them
had the slightest pecuniary interest in my pro-
cess in America, nor does any one of them own
a pennys worth of stock in the steel works at
Bucksport. These works were started by me
and few friends before left America and
were put into operation in the spring of 1870
and are now being successfully carried on by
the use of my process.
My process for the manufacture Of steel is
used only at our works at Pittsburg and was
started there under my direction some months
betors came to Europe. My process for pu-
rliying iron is used no where in America nor
has any person the slightest knowledge of it.
wish to lay this plain statemene of facts be-
fore the American people, not only to protect
myself but to warn them against being drawn
into the encouragement of doubtful anil
probably worthless speculatons by persons
pretending to have knowledge of my pro-
cess and authority to use it in the United
States when they have neither authority,
knowledge or right in the matter.
remain sir, your obt. servant,
j. EDWIN SHERMAN.
80 Kensington Gardens Square, Bayswater,
Ion