The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-18
praise to protection In words like the following writ
by one OF Pittsburgs poets only two years ago -

Make All her graceful daughters yet iair.
10 AID her drums around the word TO beat;
II keeps workmsn Idle In Tho s,reet
BY following the investigations which have made
thus lar IL does not strike me that P,ltsburg has
much lear even ''in peace oil Enaland's IRON,
and that IN those branches where her machinery does
already triumph over the English product she has
only to overcome that cheap manual laoor which
yet Engand's greatest protector. Taking tho iron
interest INTO fragments 1nd 1t divided
First-rne manufacture OF pig iron; where We have
driven England virtually out oil this country, except
as TO small quantities of Scotch pig IRON.
Sec0Rd-Inc manufacture OF merchant or bar iron,
which arc making SO good now As to enable US TO
export largo quantities.
Thl,d--lron hardware, In which we beat the world
and control tho foreign markets
Having taken great pains 10 ascertain the views Of
the most prominent In each branch OF this
| trade, and indeed having narrowly escaped being
seriously injured by molten metal when 100 nquisi-
was cautioned by the proprietor who me
to retire TO moro sale place OF observation, / can
SPEAK with some authority at least as TO tho process
| OF mapulacLure, It's aims and ambitions
IRoS
The P!usblrg manufacturers, those who
naoes anu take the ore US u comes out oil me mines,
have three places 10 select from 10 draw their
Lake Superior, Canaua anu Pennsylvania. The Lake
Superior ore Is the best; u contains about seventy
vania, only contains thirtynvc per cent OF iron,
the Canada ore beng about ten per cent better
than The native, or Pennsylvania, ore. When
l remarked 10 an ironmastcr that 1t
pity that the Pennsylvania poor no
remarked that all the world ovcrit seemed as II Provi
placed good IRON and good coal lar
possible, to give man chance to expcnd his labor
tho transportation OF iron rs well the fuel When
EXPRESSED my regret that Pittsburg shouid be
pecd 60 ior her best Lake Superior aud pay
freight The same, and feared that this might
other obstacle to In tho price prod.
uci, he readily answered: &c gland and America
arc aboul ca matter freights ricn ore
She has 10 bring ore from spain other countries,
while American man uiacturers have to bring theirs
from the aKcsn TINS orc after having been orou ght
TO Pittsburg from the mines thrown into the fur
naccs, where every morning al eleven O'Clock and
every afternoon ~ ave O'Clock The pure. iron,
ufQd
forms created for IT IN tho lower portion Of thu
building and becomes pig iron or bar ron rne drcss,
constituting thirty per cent OF 0c very best
ceived here, is gathered in u different basin sold
subsequently, TO the railroad companies Tor filling up
purposcG IL Is this pig iron or rather bar iron which
still cres necessarily tor protection, ana yet all The
pig IRON Great Britain sends here Is Scotch pig,
making but even there the stove manufacturers of
this country have ascertained Tor tho last ten
that tho American pig iron Is just 2ood, and hardly
stove manufacturers use the Scotch pig iron.
Tin TACT said leading manufacturer 10 me, mo pig
iron has been imported TO any extent within tho last
ten years. except for foundry purposes. as now wo
have reached, with the ana oil our improvements
position where can make It cheaper. England Is
nearly driven OF the market pig iron, but
Scoicn pig she still has slight sale In TINS country"
In connection with this, aud 10 show more than any
tn ng else adduce testify TO the superiority Of
Ptsbugs geographical position as 10 the orc ana as
10 the uel required IN the blast furnaces, tho Same
gentleman added, 'YOu will be surprised 10 know
when tell YOU that English manufacturers
ing nere to put up furnaces" And so it Is the adj
vantaees enjoyed by Pttsburg an iron manufacture.
ing town but little understood outside OF It's own
limits. Lying at The conhuence OF tho OHIO River,
which form bay with the Monongaheia ana Ale
ghany rivers, she can, aided also by the numer-
railways that centre IN her midst command
tho ore oil either Lake superior her own State.
Fuel being the great factor she can just dig into
adjoining soil Tor The coal natural she requires
and AZ skill has centred here during the past aity
years all tEat pertains 10 the of
she needs to look 10 tho east and west OF her
locality ana on each hand finds population oi
20 0J0 900 people, all eager to the iron anulac.
which she STANDS IN the country.
AS centre, therefore, OF a0,oo0,0o0 people, among
whom the oil iron and It's thousand and products
constantly increasing 10 all extraordinary volume,
she stands naturally as an eyesoro to hose English
man uiacturers who have been hnding their sales
growing beautifully less year after year, and hence
wonder that they are seeking Tor better homes and
not limited to-day even by the cxpanso oil their own
country, but VINO insist upon driving pig iron into
every market oil The world.
MERCHANT OR BAR IRON.
Tho IRON. after having been rolled IN the various
mills, becomes what generally known in the trade
as ..mercAant iron ana mere owing TO the i'm proved
machinery already in tho second stage OF the
Gustry this country has succeeded IN hning numer-
Gus foreign markets tor this particular product We
arc now exporting II In large quantities TO South
America aud Mexico. The gsiyan zvd iron, arch
used como exclusively from England to Ans coun-
try, 10 nos now imported mere TO any extent, and,
what more, the Ptsburg manufacturers are driving
England steadily out OF her own markets Tho hrm
OF Moorheai Il Co. assured mo that they had placed
considerable quantities OF galvanized iron IN Canada,
ior instance, Dut II was icarta struggle. As 5000
as they placed u there the En- sh iok3 would come
and underseii them, merely to retain the hold OF
The marScl. though at u loss They would not have
attempted Guardian market but Tor the
that building IN tnis country had become very slack
oil late, anu hence they had sought outlet Tor thor
galvanized IRON Most OF II IS used Tor and
covering roofs ana iceh0uses; but the contest
tney had win England In Canada was u severe ono,
though there was nothing tn Tho transactions OF the
past 10 at all discourage tncm, and tney would 60
supplying the Canadian demand regardless OF English
competition. In TACT could sell great deal
Of our iron just now II We would go down litlo
lower IN prices" saId Mr. Moorhesd. .Ihcre is
plenty OF demand Tor Il, especially Canada but
prefer to make "a better iron man We used TO and
e Is
quality OF the article, utter all, we had mat
Jcat England more readily than IN u slight
difference TO price" no modus operandi
making 'piooms, out OF which this ga
is subsequently manufactured, was shown me by Nj.
Moorhead, VINO TOOK particular delight Ia riyeting
iny attention upon the formidable steam hammer
which gave shape and form TO the metal alter mad
left the furnace ana made II into what he technically
CARED .Dl0oln,n the very best oil iron. That same
hammer, which knocks u ton more OF iron with
almost Incredible rapdisy IRON rough glowing mass
into neat shape, hns TIL. capacity also, told, of
knocking the smallest article INTO acceptable shapo
and conuiou 1T to ue handed ana rolled without any
eilort Another extraordinary steam hammer, OF
course to various notifications. has created
the greatest revolution In the iron trade oil
Try. Toe principle oil hzinmering however, Is all the
same whether extended 10 large sheet ot iron or TO
block OF the metal. Heretofore The best sheet iron
was manufactured IN Russia, or rather IN Siberia,
where ts convict LABOR Ncpt pounding continually on
tho iron sheet ult,i tney prodacsd an artico
tho ike OF which could not bu found Ia any part
OF tho hab.taDe gooc, owing 10 Us peculiar
gloss and dapped appearance The pores OF tne irou
CIT c.ualiy closed Uy tho constant hammcring
If Siberian con.cts, whose labor cost notang at
All, that kussi sheet soon became great and
influential marketable article ali over tue world. THIS
wonderful city oil Fitsburp, with It's pluck SIKH ard
ingenuity, has, IN the lace VI Ensiands knowledge OF
alt ms Russian work. solved the problem after cx-
pcrimentnI July thirty long years. and to-day she pro-
uuccs panishcd sheet IRON suiiy equal 10 tho best
Kussan iron, aud this TACT IS aesled TO by leading
consumers oil metal IA this country ana IN Englanu
Iniil crpfisi3g fittsburg Ann investigated TINS
trCret Oi kussiis success ~ producing such 4 nno
quality ol iron u was never unacrstood why sDc
sIouid control the markets oi the world ihs
gard Now The d 9Th qsality OF "a. sheet lron made
mere its hspn hngsn, used Tor cyefythlns which
rcqurcs a handsome exterior aud Russian sheet troa
ie icil cut IA tue cold to eonsiacfaDo extent.
TUE IRON HARpwAgE-nANUfAcrCggDI RoS GOODS.
IL WA Lc surprising 10 most oil your readers when
Inform them, the very best authority atta'nabic
that untn very lately Euglish goods ~ The common
hardware line were entrcy used IA California; even
In Canada ard IN south America, aud that Simply
owing the persistence OF PlttsDurgs manufacturers
showing the consumers al those various places
The shape ana more convenient makeup OF tue
several ARTICLES tAal England mas Occn virtually do
prycd OF suven.c ghtns OF It's anes la the iorelsn