The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-26
IRON MANUFACTURE.
What Rishop Taylor Says Regard
ing the Industry.

SfHoW are you getting along Win int
manufacture Of iron2" / ask the priv
lege of answering through your paper
There are vast bodies Of the best quail
tv OF iron ore within fifteen miles OF
Cedar City, Iron county, the places
where our works should be located
these ores have been tested and nun
dreds of tons of excellent iron has been
made from them with charcoal as fuel;
the ore is on and very near the surface
and could be calcined and prepared for
the furnace very cheaply; much OF 1t Is
already mined there Is plenty OF the
hest OF limestone for fluXing in the
boundaries of this place; there are vast
deposits OF coal within six miles OF
Cedar City, and one company owns
rail road with locomotives and cars,
which if laid down to these extremes
would bring the ore and coal to the
works at very low rates; there nave
been hundreds of tons OF coal taken
from the coal mines OF TINS canyon
every year and hauled to Cedar, far-
owal and Beaver In the north ana 70
Silver Reef and st. George in the south
costing three times as much TO haul IL
down the canyon as a railroad company
would need to charge; If II could be &c
delivered at CEDAR ene-hau us
present cost, where there is one ton sold
now, there would be ten tons then.
Men who are interested in the Cd IRON
works at this place say that coke has
been made from this coal from which
good pig iron was made. But this sum-
.fner samples Of coal were taken from
these mines to Salt Lake City, analysed
E and said TO contain Z per cent. OF SUI,
phur. / took q piece of picked coal
from the mine in which the iron COM
pa7y owns, had it analyZed in Salt Lake
UStY by two responsible men, that was
said to have less than fve-tenths OF i
par cent. sulphur in it. ] got about SIX
tons Of coal dug, with the intention OF
having it made into coke in an oven that
we had built, but could not find man
in Iron county who had ever made coke
In an oven, so engaged Joseph II.
Smith, OF Cedar, to make about three
tons on the ground covered with dirt.
He succeeded in making pretty fair ar
ticle Of coke, remarking, however, to me
tbatit-was not as good as it would have
been If the coal had been picked. When
this coke was aaalyx itcontained only
little over 4 per cent. sulphur, instead
of 7 per cent, as contained in the first
sample of coal; also proving that II 1t
had been picked, as it should have
been, and made in an oven, 1t would
have had much less, and, Fr~blblv,
practically no sulphur. Still, after pick
ing. should the coal yet have
too much sulphur IN 1t for
taking good coke or iron, we
could adopt the washing process as
they do in Europe. In this connection
I quote from a work written by PROBES
sor Ferdinand Kohn, published in Eng
land: Near the town OF Prague, In
Australia, are situated the KladnO Iron
Works. The coal OF the Kladno mines
is so impure and so much stratiEed with
thin LAYERS OF slate that it will not coke
at all in its natural state; it moreover
carries 2 considerable percentage OF iron
writes in CRYSTALS OF very different
sizes, which would render the coke-un-
less made from picked or purified lots OF
coal-entirely worthless for iron smelt-
ing. Besides the difficulties offered by
the impurities of the coal the greater
difficulties OF a similar contamination
OF the argillaceous ore with iron pyrites
and of 8 considerable percentage of
phosphorus in the ores, present them
selves conditions which in the present
state of iron metanurgy, it is certainly
difficult to contend against. From these
impure Goals c"d ores, Mr.. jacob, the
manager of the Kladno works, has, by
the exercise of Perseyering skill, ut
length succeeded in making very good
quality of iron.
The removal of the sui phur from the
coal and from the ore, which is the main
condition for arriving at this practical
result, forms the principal point of in
terest in the practice of the Klando
works. The series Of operations which
effect the desulphurization precede the
smelling process. The coal is purified
BIZ washing in the manner now very
generally adopted on the Continent and
n ''some English works"
In an article on the same subject, Is
prackised at the Wigan coal and iron
works, England. he says the company
works about 35o tons per day, at a cos
oil Cd per ton. If needful, we could wash
sur coal, and there is no question bu
what it would answer car purpose Oul
eesl Is better than the foregoing, Ter /
has made the best coke ever mace IL
Utah. / have made Aasubjeet OF manu-
featuring iron quitea study, and from a
can learn from conversation with ),ee
ticsi Workmen. reading and ObSerya
ton, believe that Iron County, Utah
is not excelled anywhere for the vast
ness and excellence OF its raw materia
for the making of iron and steel sue
cessfuly and probably; and if the PEG
pie of Utah could see the necessity o
&TEAllHR tI16rb III OAa
of the iron numbers of others wou.i
flow, people might have employment
the farmers q home market for thei
produce, and everybody be beneli led
1t takes large amount of means, an,
that Is really the obstacle to its speed
accomplishment. Men who should b
interested in the welfare of the Teri
tory have sought excuses, for fear,
they invested, they would not get in
mediate returns. The iron trade bein
duh east, is a good reason why We shout
make our own iron in Utah, and kee
the millions that go east for iron an
nonware at home, to circulate as
medium TO prevent dull time
here. Steel IS very low in iii
east: there are good reasons VIII
its price should be reduced, when firm
such as the BessemeFS can openl
boast that on an investment OF less tina
50 900 900 they have been clearing ne
profit of $500, 600 per month for fiftee
years.
Mr.. Hewitt, one of the committee az
pointed by Congress to investigate th
status Of capital and labor, stated ths
an iron manufacturing company nea
where he was speaking, Alabama, ha
cleared in profits in one year, the whol
amount of its investment; and can sc
no reason why the business could nc