The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-05-17

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!; to the present time. have made alI fb
| great discoveries.
4 Pennsylvania In Wales.
The Philadelphia North american, pui
, fishes an interesting letter-not writer
for publication, however-from Mr.. Al
bert Pancoast, of that city, descriptive q
, his visit to the iron district of Wales
From 1t we take the following extract
For heating purposes, the Siemen's furn
aces have superseded all others. As re
CARDS steel making by this process. it il
in reality nothing else but the old Aus
irian principle practically carried out
viz. to produce steel by mixing wrough
with cast iron. | might say here that al
: the Aberdarc furnaces (which were tn,
lasA visited. found them working IN
African ore. as well as the usual ore from
spain. In quality of ores they put SpaiI
lirst. African ore second. and hematitt
third. | have been much surprised tC
see the amount of foreign ore used IN
English furnaces. As regards iron. | am
impressed that quality is now the order
OF the day. and that at no remote pcriO,
everything will be steel.
Trades Unions did not find to flourish
III South Wales as they do where work.
men are more intelligent and more diff
cult to manage. as | understand they are
IN the north and middle districts of Eng
land. At two works in South Wales.
however. they informed me they wer,,
| quite independent Of these combinations.
| Nevertheless, Wales has followed suit in
Tie general rise Of wages in coal and iron
tir"m i've tn ten per ccnt.). which has
| taken place all over Europe: and. as is
| usual with such increase of wages. the
| men do not now work a well aS they
dld. from the mere fact they feel their
Independence more. and now. ~ with lis
m America, demand shorter time for
| labor. with the SAME amount of INV.
| iIad the good luck while i'm Dowlais To
see the three important kinds ui rails
winch are now receiving 50 much aticn-
tlon. VIZ. First. the steel rail I; second
steel top nodded 10 the iron mot so good
on account of difficulty Of good moldiugl,
| aud tlIir'l the old iron rail with III the
Erie raid. From an engineer of no little
reputation ! received the following sta
tisllcs of the importation of railroad iron
aud Manufacture of the same IN the
United States yearly. According Ia his
account IL j. thus:
uur MAKE m United statcs (al,oup 800. tso, ,coo
Imported into United States 80 w 5oo, ,aa
Hence consumption IN United States I, bo, ,0Na
But the report for 1871 oi the American
Iron aud Steel Association. which have
not with me. will make different show
ing from this.
At one of the places | visited much
argument was bestowed on Hie in order
10 prove that we were guing to carry
out a suicidal policy by keeping
up the duties on iron. At another
] was informed that the Americans
were good At inventions in machinery.
You know. perhaps. that Darks Is over
here with his revolving pudding fur
mace and Is taking everythin. by storm.
There has lately been Il committee from
the Iron and Steel Institute. over which
the Duke "f Dcvonshire presidcs. sent
over 10 examine into the working of
Danks' pudding furnaces at Cincinnati
and Chattanooga. They have made a
most favorable report, aDd in couss-
quen,c il Is stated that contracts have
been made with Danks to put up here in
England, in the course of the next fifteen
months, as many rs four hundred and
ilfly of them. at royalty per furnace OF
e2JJ. They seem here to entertain
stron" hope that il will in great meas
ure do away with hand pudding, kind
of work very hard upon the eyes and
lungs of the laborer. Hand pudding re-
quires skill aud long practice, and the
workman keeps his cycbaIls fixed upon
the fiery. molten metal. while he stirs
and stirs the stuff, raking up the red
Jumps from the bottom into the white
scum, so as to give them Il fair turn at
the top, till the whole mass grows ''thick |
and slab
But here is Danks, who proposes to do |
il all with revolving pan and some cum
ming chemistry, which burns out the |
carbon and turns the silicon. phosphorus
and magnrsia of the iron into oxides.
Mr.. Bcssemer has declared the inven- |
ton TO be Of the highest value. And. as |
a consequence, these furnaces are going |
up side by side with the old lian,l-puddl- |
ing works. The demand for bar iron |
here is almost unlimited. None of the |
brokers want To sell at the present time,
and few dare purchase. saw. yesterday |
4 dispatch from the Trclrgar Iron Com
pany to purchase ut London at almost |
my price.
In my brief visit to South Wales ] |
have come To the conclusion that the
future place for the production of coal,
ron and steel, is America. No where
nave | yet seen such coal and iron ore us
have seen at home; and in all the fur
iaces that visited here, with few except
ons, have found them working some
oreign ores, and forever mixing their
.oal. As soon as the Easter holidays are
over, which bring IN interruption to
work here, will start on my visit To the
Midland and northern coast and iron dis
ricts of England.