Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-09-16

Manufacturing Company, which was
incorporated some three weeks ago,
with capital of 500 900, to engage
in the manufacture of iron, steel and
glass, completed their organization
at a meeting held in this city on
Thursday last. Mr.. Wilson Vance
was elected President, Mr.. j. Nelson
Wisner, Vice President, Mr.. Chas.
w. Wisner, Secretary, and Mr.. Geo.
w. Feidt, Treasurer. The affairs
and prospects Of the company were
reported upon and found to be in q
most satisfactory and encouraging
condition. The Board Of Directors
We're instructed to proceed without
delay to carry into effect plans
which were agreed to at the meet
ing, and which may be briefly out
lined as follows To construct, first,
at or near Martinsburg, (some point
to be selected in the Eastern Pam
handle) a mill, which shall comprise
two or more furnaces for smelling
ore and reheating metal, with a train
of rolls and other machinery neces-
Sary TO the manufacture of iron and
steel blooms, ingots, slabs, etc. In
the very near future this mill will be
enlarged by the addition of two new
furnaces and machinery, so as to
manufacture merchant iron and
steel, and steel rails. The purpose of
this company is to make of this mill
in all respects model establish
ment, and their energies will be bent
first to the accomplishment of this
purpose. That secured, the company
will proceed to the establishment of
furnaces and mills at other points
within the limits of the State, as
may seem advisable to them, using
in all Of them the vapor fuel process
for making and working iron and
steel, which they control foG this
State. The men who are at the head
of the company are well known, and
the energy and zeal with which they
entered upon this work is a guaran-
tee of success. There is now fine
opportunity TO secure here at Mar
tinsburg the establishment of works
which viii within very short time
do q business reaching value OF
millions Of dollars, and we are graft
fed TO learn not only that the COM
pany are predisposed in favor of our
city as the point for their first mill,
but also that the stock Of the com
pany has been SO favorably received
as to warrant the hope that the first
steps towards the construction OF the
works will be taken within the next
thirty days, and within ninety days
fires viii be lighted in the furnaces.
We trust that the pride of our citl-
Zens in our city, and their desire TO
see it prosper, will lead them to give
their hearty support to an enterprise
which will unquestionably do much
to consummate the desire.
The vapor fuel process, which the
company will use, is one which is
destined TO work revolution in the
and manufacture of iron
and steel, such as was accomplished
in transportation by the introduc
ton of steam. For quarter OF a
century nearly, the best scientific
minds Of the world have been busted
with Incorporation of how to utilize
petroleum as fuel Repeated fail
ures have been made, as in all great
discoveries, but through all dis
couragemeuts the inyincible deter
mination of man to rule the world
to which he was sent, and to subdue
everything found therein, and apply
it TO his own purposes, has pursued
its steady way, till ut last success
has been won. The basis of the fuel
is petroleum, but the oil is not the
fuel BY chemical action the oil is
made simply the agent for the releas-
ing of the natural gases of which the
atmospheric air and pure water are
composed, whereby they are utilized
for a fuel which for purity and
strength and cheapness has never
been equaled. BY this process iron
and steel of a quality from 30 to 80
per cent. better than that produced
by old processes, is made at cost
which viii not exceed IS per cent. OF
the expense by the old process. The
saving is not alone in fuel but in the
machinery and buildings as well
they being much simpler and cheap
er in the application OF vapor fuel.
While the wonders that can be
worked by the use Of the new dis
coyery must largely remain a theory
till time shall tell the theory, enough
has already been done to warrant
all that has been claimed for it. The
process is now in use in the Norway
works in Boston, an old, conserya-
tive establishment with a $500, 900
plant; in the works Of Ex Senator
Barnum. of Connecticut, at Spuyten
Duyyil, and at other places, where
the success is uniform and almost
beyond belief A company is now
being formed by Senator Miller, OF
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