The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-10
A Pen Picture of the Celebrated
Creuzot Smelling Works.
With Facts and Figures in
Reference Thereto.
Other Interesting Items Con.
corning France and Her
People.
Special Correspondence
PARIS, January 18th. 1884.

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with the ChiEese is already telling on
France, as sbe continues 10 expel the
"foreign devils" The Germans have
never been in the odor OF ssr City
since 1S70,and the English, and other
dWelIers beyond Mesopotamia, are
rapidly being similarly clsssed. This
''lock out' OF the stranger, does not
look hopeful for Victor Hugo's Eur
pean republic, nor indeed Is it main.
tanning what the French call, their
national hospitality. The anarchists
have q more pellucld programme;
they recognize as man and brother
whether ne dwell at Indies or the
pole, all who aid to demoIish society,
and that CAD lodge lead pills in the
latest and most vital part of q bour-
geois: then, man to man the vide
world DER shall brothers be for O.
that. During the fret Revolution a
journal appeared, and but one num-
Der like the ldees Napoleon; it con-
tanned project OF Law. of two clauses;
l. Nothing exists; 2. Nobody lie
entrusted with the carrying out OF
this Decree" Its lines might be re-
vived.
Creusot ia the most celebrated
smelling works and non foundry in
France, Indeed il rapks as an insti-
tuition. This establishment has just
dismissed its last batch, about 12O. OF
foreign vorkmen. Among the latter
are several Englishmen who held
skilled positions. Creuzot ia not 80
much q factory. as an iron world, for
it employs directly ard indirectly,
over II. 900 persons. It's operations
comprise, the extraction and smelt.
ing OF iron o-e; the working OF coal
mines; the manufacture of !ooomo.
tlves, marine engines, nails, bridges.
and various articles Of domestic iron
work-a kind o! needle to an anchor
ability.
Gre Zot is situated about nineteen
miles southeast of Autun, in the de-
parlment of the Saone st Loire; i. is
thus 10 the centre OF France, and in
direct communication, by rail, river,
and canal, with every corner of the
realm. Tbs meisllurgic society OF
OreuZ0t, vas founded in 1882, under
the auspices of Louis XVI, who was
shareholder for the meiety of the
capital; its object was, to make iron
with coke after the process brought
from England by Williams. Will
kinson. The following year Marie
An:oinette established a glass works
in the neighborhood, and which later
became the now famous establish
meat Baccarat.
The Creuzot society was ruined by
the Napoleon wars; it was put up for
sale in 1908. and bought for $50. 600
francs. An English firm took the
works in hand twenty years later. but
failed. Ultimately the Schneider
Brothers bought up the scrip, and it
ia now the property OF that family,
being directed by young Henri
Schneider and his brother. in-law.
The late n. Schneider, who Was
PRECEDENT of the Corps Legisla.ii
under the second en pre-, q sharp,
shrewd, rosy little Frenohman,
quickly took in the natural sdvan.
sages OF his property, his social posi-
tion. and political connections. He
decided that in order to make Creu>
rot national. he must commence By |
making it English. French artisans
were intelligent and thsorish. bat
they were deficient in practical abil.
isy ana experience. The result OF
bis visit to England in 1916 Was. 70
arrange for Q steady supply OF Fog
lish skilled wo,kmen, and the most |
improved machinery and tools.
Next followed almost the recon
stfuctiop OF the works, furnaces, coke
ovens, foupdries, rolling mills, fac
tories and feeling railways. The
mineral concession is at Mazensy,
twenty-seven miles from Oreuzot, and
includes q surface of nine square
miles; the coal beds concessions EN-.
brace q surface of forty square miles, |
aud the establishment ia built On
them. Ths water supply is abundant.
The premises cover 800 acres, OF
which 2l5 acres are actually under |
buildings. II mas railway lines in
Guiding running powers over part
of the Lyons railway, amounting TO
LOG miles; has twenty locomotives 10 |
its service, and 600 wagons. About
800, 900 tons of iron ore, and the
same of coal, are annually extracted.
Perhaps one.third Of the output OF
the ore. 100, coo tons, represents the
yearly product of manufactured
metal; OF which $4,000 tons are rails; |
10, 600 sheet. and 80. 900 forged iron.
Some $50 locomotives are built dur
ing the year, besides steam boilers,
marine engines, barges, bridges.
sumps, etc. representing total OF
some 40. 000. 900 francs of affairs. |
The vein OF ore is rich and as thick
as two yards in the deepest mine.
But Cfeuzot receives ore from other
regions OF France, from the Isle OF
Elba. and from Algeria. The coal ia
found at the surface OF the soil in
some places, but the best IL from |
mines about 1900 yards in depth. 1t
is q good all-round coal, but to make |