The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-07-25

Messrs. Carnegie, Phipps & Co. Limited,
are making all their purest and best
plate steel by this process. The Penn
sylvania steel company have also adopted
this process.
The basic duplex process may be prat
| ticed to advantage at Pittsburgh, Har-
risburgh, and in Eastern Pennsylvania ;
at Richmond, Lynchburg, Low Moor,
Mines, Roanoke, and Pulaski, in Viz
ginia from Knoxville to South Pitts
burg, in Tennessee and at all points
where pig iron can be made to advan
tage in Alabama and Georgia 1t is es-
specially adapted to make steel from the
pig iron made at Bessemer Birming-
ham and Sheffield, Alabama.
In the Bessemer process, whether it be
the acid or the basic, the mettailoids are
eliminated by being oxidized by means
of the oxygen of the air: while in the
basic open hearth process, as well as the
acid open-hearth process, the mettaloids
are eliminated by means of the oxygen
in metallic oxides; and as the oxygen OF
bined, the product of the open-hearth
process is purer and of a more highly
chemical character than the Bessemer
metal
Owing to litigation the Introduction OF
the basic process has been delayed in
the United States, but in Europe it has
been largely adopted, the production of
basic steel there in 1888 having been
1858, 234 tons, a considerable portion of
which was exported to this country. |
have assigned the basic patents to the
Bessemer Steel Company Limited, but
have retained the patents covering the
manufacture, sale, and use Of the basic
Stag as fertilizer.
Basic steel is in great demand for tin
plates, thin sheets for stamping into trays,
and domestic utensils, such as enalneled
and nickel plated ware for wiredraw
ing and drop forgings, because it is
softer, tougher, and more ductile than
the less pure steel made in the presence
of dirty slags. 1t is also used largely for
wire nails, boiler plates, and rivets, be-
cause of its homogeniousness and tough
ness.
1t is my impression that the acid pro
cess has seen it's largest development in
this country. and that the future increase
of steel production will be largely if not
entirely due to the development of tie
basic process, because by its. use a purer
and better metal may be made. In my
opinion the greatest development of the
ginia, Tennessee, West Virginia, Ken
lucky North Carolina and Georgia. /
am also of the opinion that steel ship
building will be an important industry
in the South within few years, as all
the material needed for the construction
of steel-bottomed ships can be deiv-
cred at shipyard at Pensacola, Flor
ida, cheaper than such material can
be bought at any point on the Delaware
river. Yours truly.
JACOB REESE
Pittsburgh, Pa, June %, 1885,
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