The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-29
STEEL MANUFACTURES AT
$3.50" CLEVELAND. la

A Wonderful and Valuable D iscOvery.
The Cleveland Leader gives lengthy
and very interesting account Of series
oiexperiments in that city in the manulac!
turc orsteel, whiclIare said to have been
perfectly successful, and which must re-
volltionize. the business. According 10
the Leader's statement, an iron ore mined
in York county, Pa, and known as "sili-
clan," ore, has only 70 be mixed in q
common pudding furnace, and steel is
produced in any quantity desired. Until
recently this silician ore, which was dis
covered q long time ago, has been looked
upon as next 10 yalucless. IA,
Some time since, 10 solve its doubts,
the Cleveland Iron Company ordered
several tons of this ore for an experiment
The shippers gave directions as how 1t
should he used, and twelve per cent ofthe
pulVerized ore was added TO furnace Of
common pig iron. The mass was worked
in the same manner as If bar iron was TO
pc produced, andin one hour after pass
Ing through the same. operation as the,
bnr does, the company had several tons
ofvery fair steel. Tools were made from
1t. A bar was sent TO manufacture OF
springs, and he pronounced IL tho most
tenacious and malleable he had ever tried,
and tile company Immediately secured q
contract with an Ohio railroad company
for five hundred tons Of steel rails. ,'l. :
Last week, having procured quantity
OF the ore, the Olis Iron Works, OF CleVe-
land, also malean experiment Theper
cent, Of the 'silician" ore was increased
10 twenty, the mass was put through the
same process as common bar iron, and
the result was steel which has been pro-
no4nced equal TO any which the cutters
Of England can produce. A manufacturer
OF cutlery inthat city gave some of the
steel q through trial, and he saws of il:
Although drawn from ingot to the small
size we use for blades under every un-
favorable circumstances, it comes out
when worked down. and hardened as fine
almose as silver, finer even than the best
English steel we ever used. 1t seems to
work well all the way through; 1t works
kindly under the hammer, scales well
when hardened, polished black when fin.
ished, edges right on the oil stone, and
cuts well and holds an edge. q Could get
this steel in the right shape and size l
should like TO use it for pocketknives all
the while" lin mn ,r,--
Desiring to makea further and severer
test; o specimen OF the steel was sent 10 the
Remington Manufacturing Company to see
how it would work up in a gun barrel.
The barrel passed through the tests, and
was only bursted when filled with DOW
der and discharged. II has been tried as
springs for watches and clocks, and found
TO meet every demandirequired. fsfI
The discovery Is truly wonderful one,
and must cause q revolution. By the Bess.
emer process six hours are consumed in
.ne manufactured teel,andthe machin-
Try " OF the most costly character, while
y iNrse increase Of labor is required. BY
thls process only one hours time ia wan
Ieu, and there Is no Machinery beyontl that
needed for the manufactures az corninnn
iron. The orc exists in almost ineTbons.
tible quantities., Is very chean md ,he
nominal nominal cost Of the steel, where It can be
prouuced IN such weight at so short a no.
uce, must tel heavily on English mann.
iactnre. 1t has been tried and tested un.
III there Is no longer any room 10 llonbt
that the steel Is superior to any Other IN
tho world, and the business of mannfnc.
turing Il will soon DO tho heaviest buS;.
ness in tho country. The Bessenler steel
rails cost from sixty to eighty.five dollars
per ton In Canada, and from eighty to
one hundred dollars per ton in tho United
States, and yet are net what railroad
companies want It Is asserted that these
steel rails can be furnished for twenty.
fiVee or thirtydollars per ton In the States,
and, rs totheir durability, the Erie rail.
road, which has given them q trial during
Tie winter on one hundred miles Of road,
mas found then, thoroughly proof against
frost, breaking and flaw. - IN. 2 mi.