The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-07-10
S9 ss.. q coke at Connesville December Ispa.
Furnace coke, " 10 per Ton. Foundry coke. 30 Az

Total shipments from Councisyi,le for wcek.ua,uv
November y 1880, 60i7 cars, distributed! az ulIcx
the East. l,3l5 cars. ~
hessemer ore is costing at Pittsburg ST SO
per ton, and non Bcsscmer orc costs Mt PITTS
burg from $500 to 5000 per ton.
Non besSemcr ore will cost ut Big Stone Gan
from 81 20 to $3.50 per ton, and the Bcsscmct
ore from $500 to $3.50 per ton.
Limestone will cost at least twice as much
at Pittsburg as ct Big Stone Gap.
1t is said that 700 tons of Pocahontas coke
passes west through Bristol daily for furnaces
III the Alabama and Chattanooga districts.
This coke will cost from 1913 to $50 per ton
ut those furnaces.
These facts show the smaller cost of coke
and iron ore at Big Stone Gap and REQUIRE no
comment. Coke can be delivered at the ovens
here much cheaper than these figures indicate.
and still afford large profit to the maker
OPINION OF TWO ENGLISH EXPERTS.
Mr. John w. Darby, of Wcxham, Eng, and
Ny. +. Monks, Of Warrington, Eng. members
"t the british Iron & Steel Institute, recently
visited Big Stone Gap. Mr.. Darby is Young
man, but has already reached prominent 20
sision among the iron and steel producers of
England. lie inhcrits his aptness for these in
dnstrles from ancestors who have been prom
inent IN them for century. His grandfather
was the first to make iron from unlocked coal.
and his own plant, located near Chester, was
the first TO use successfully the basic process
for making steel. Mr. Monks is one of tho
oldest and best known of the practical iron and
coke men of England.
THE very things wanted to see are here.
did not care TO see the manufactures in oper-
alton, for we have those at home as numerous
and as nearly perfect as one could wish to see,
although | must say that have been greatly
surprised and pleased at the great concerns we
saw IN the North. Their equipments are not
so complete nor their methods so economical as
ours IN England, but they are rapidly APP
preaching it. What those Of us who mean
business wished to see in America is just what
have seen to-day ut Big Stone Gap: as fine
coke as have ever seen III England, with iron
ores only two miles away, and limestone be-
tween, together with water power and railroads.
This is il combination that is bound to make
YOU great here. have neUcr SCENT cquuied
elsewhere. Your coke is the best have seen
in America. The brown ores we inspected to-
day are admirably adapted to the basic process.
OF course, your proximity to the magnetic ores
1T Cranberry is a great card in your favor, but
YOU Will not need that to make the possibilities
OF this point simply incalculable. We have
been over large portion of the Southern min
crai belt, and | regard this as the best point
we have seen for the manufacturing of basic
steel, owing to the quality and quantity of
your brown ores and their proximity to this
coke. | have enjoyed M day here greatly,
and hope can return soon"
Mr.. Monks spoke in The same strain, saying
he had been practical producer of coke and
iron for forty wears, and that he had never seen
better coke; and the iron ore, both brown and
red were fine. He thought the best card for
the future OF Big Stone Gap i'll the iron indus
try was the advantage it had over any other
place lie had seen for the production of steel by
tnc basic process.
TIMBER.
Prof. Proctor in his report says of the tim
Der: "About so per cent of the area included
in the Appalachian coal-tieldi in Southwest Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, and Southeast Kentucky.
is covered with forest of valuable hartwoods-
oak. vcllow poplar, hickory, etc. The Black