The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-07-15
pennsylvania Copper Industry.

,r wos known and wrought before
Ooppd the most ancient discoveries we
IRON, n this country show that an unknown
have ';ned ~ it here. The metal is found
race nat n.t Rritain, Norway, Sweden, Austria,
in ulom onv Italy, Turkey, Spain, Africa,
Gein.' G,i" iansn. Australia and on this con-
Chlna' N Cuba, South and Central America,
tlpeG', ;.o Canada as well as in the United
SIsas MsAs Our principal deposits are in the
1'I,o1S AZ Superior region but copper Is found
LanS annS,nnsTlvania, Virginia, Tennessee, North
IN mrol;no J Georgia, Maryland New England,
CaIoIt;s .t;S country contributed its full share
ana a.rd I'd doubling the worlds product from
10 .G"5 zoo tons in the quarter of century at
-o1s3O The increase is steadily aug
lnt;nc ''i TO meet an ever augmentlng de
iH'n5 nJ from former uses and from new and
iillr+ Ia" tbe enormous smelling works that
,'o" a;yen commerce, wealth and renown to
G",ro1sca l,"a~ in South Wales, are being copied
IS ,'Tass but fourishing in Baltimore, Boston,
y York. St. Louis and in this State.
TLaso 1rI here have the advantage of being
70 the raw ore, and thus saving trans
"o,t .'ort,tion and the Chemical Copper Com
ponv p recently founded at Phenixville,
I,'n; Ipont;guous to the Schuylkill Works, that
20 eU s6me three years old, have material
ID ID in the Hunt and Douglass process that
hos I been successfully tried by the Ore
T Knoh mine in North Carolina. The Schuyl-
LII Works that were burned a year ago,
Troduced 1O9,675 pounds of ingot copper,
l.imost exclusively from Pennsylvania ores,
in the six months preceding their destruc-
tion. 1t is the only establishment in the
State reducing direct from the ores. and
has weekly capacity of $4,000 pounds of
moot, The merit of the product is shown
in the fact that it nets five cents per pound
more to the company in Liverpool than in
Philadelphia, after paying all charges for
transportation.
The Chemical Company located near the
Schuylkil have two. large buildings and
GOOD machinery. They accomplish the re-
,juction of the crude ore by chemical pro
cess. with salt and iron in single furnace,
much more cheaply than it can be done by
smelling. They have leased fine deposit
Of copper recently struck in York county F.;
obtain other ore from Montgomery, Berks
and Lebanon counties and draw part OF
their supplies from Texas, Cuba, New
Mexico, Spain and Missouri-the Texan
Welding up to sixty per cent, while much
of the Pennsylvania ore will give over five
per cent. The process requires a prelim-
mary roasting roasting to blue metal then
to white to blister and refining, when it is
cast into ingots and sold at from twenty to
thirty cents per pound. The company en-
plov fifty men in their own mines and last
wear sold Is 900 pounds to the Mint. The
condition of the market and the superiority
Of the process employed warrant a sanguine
belief that before long these smelling works
will interfere with the expectation hence to
Swansea, draw from Central and South
America and create another industrial
avocation that is not only kindred to that
Of iron, but related to lead and nickel and
zinc, and eminently suitable for COM
munity that possesses peculiar knowledge
and resources of all kinds for equalling any
in every branch of metallurgy. The new
is based upon knowledge and ex-
perience has skill and capital at its COM
mand and not only promises success to its
but enlargements that must be
very valuable to the country.-Philadelphia
North american.