Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-01-07
.'asiinotu1 Standard.
Puget Sound Iron Company.
Seattle Post.

Seattle Post.
This company was incorporated
under the laws of Washington Ter
ritory, July IS, 1879, with il, prin-
cioal place of business loo" ! at
Port Townsend, Jefferson cJGu.N,
Washington Territory, its objec: i'.'.
ing the mining and smelling of iron
ores in that vicinity; chiefly the
Chimacum iron ore. San Francisco
capitalists were prevailed upon to
furnish the needed finances for the
construction Of works Oh Port Town
send bay, work upon which was be-
gun in April last under the slperin-
tendence of d. W. Moore, Esq, a
practical iron manufacturer. AT this
writing the works are nearing tom-
pletion, and will no doubt II" in
blast by the first of February uext.
An exceptionally good furnace has
been construc I'd under the charge
of Mr.. Fitzgerald of San Francisco,
who is a practical furnace builder Of
many years experience; the furnace
is forty feet high. with capacity of
from fifteen to twenty tons of pig
iron, daily. The company have a
new Weimer htowing engine, right
from the Weimer machine works,
Lebanon, Pa. T"e hot blast will be
used. Upwards of &c, 900 bushels OF
charcoal and l 900 tons of iron ore
from the company's mine are down
at the works. The result will soon
be known.
THE MINES.
The company have secured tho
right to mine with the privilege of
purchasing at a fixed royalty, as well
as an absolute grant, the ores from
the Chinacum iron mine, situate
about one. mile from The furnace;
also the famous Texada iron mines
on Texada island, in the Gulf OF
Georgia, distance about 30 mile,
from the furnace, water transporta-
ton. The former is comuosed of
bog and brown hena,ite iron, with
an average ASSAY of So Ter cent pure
metallic iron. Tie deposit runs Ia
! ne as far as traced, with nh aver
Age width of 500 feet. Large
quantities of fiom two to four feet
thick, lying exposed in many places,
where thousands at tons can be
mined without any dead work, and
in other parts. the top soil lies from
six inches to three feet over the beds
Of ore. It is expected that the G. st
Of mining and delivering this ore to
the furnace, including the royalty,
will not exceed 81 90 per ton. The
Texada iron mine differs from the
Chimacum in that it is of volcanic
formation, and the ores are highly
magnetic in their natural state, es-
saying upwards of 70 per cent OF pure
iron Of . superior quality. This is
very large mine and we are reliably
informed exposes on its surface by
actual measurement, more than 800,
600 tons Of its excellent ore. Reli-
able mineralogists report this mlne
as containing not less than from
niue to ten million tons OF ore. It
ia easily accessible to water trans
portation, a chute 500 feet long con-
seying the ore from the place where
tho mine is opened to a pier, along
side Of which vessels receive the ore.
This ore, including duty, will cost,
delivered at the furnace, about SO so
{ per ton. The iron company hope
for q superior quality of coal from
their ores, in which event flourish
ing iron manufacturing industry will
have been added to the various in
dustries of Puget Sound.
Up to the present time this com
pany have only employed the men
necessary to construct its works,
nd to ge. in q small quantity of
charcoal and iron ore for testing pur-
loses; but it is expected that this
iron enterprise will give steady en-
pioynent TO from $50 to 800 men, as
soon as it is started in business
way.
The officers Of the company are as
follows: Cyrus Walker, Fl. L.
Blanchard and D. w. Moore, Trus-
tees; Cyrus Walker, President:
Lcuis Poole, Secretary; G. Fl.
Simpkins, Treasury; and d. w.
Moore, Superintendent. All ex-
cept G. FL. Simpkins reside near the
locality of the company's works, and
he is resident of San Francisco.