The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-11-06

TOTAL sip-n MS froia CUnncliSVi!.e 10 wcckonG."r
N04euhcr ~ 1894. 6.g77 cars distributed follcr
- iit~busgh- i.;'c0 cats: e Nes;, 100 car5 10
IL" Easi. LII cars.
EesScmcr - costing at Pittsbur% - 30
pc! ton. and nonBcSscmcr orc costs at Pitts
burg from 81 .00 to $500 per ton
Non-BeSscmer ore will cost at Big Stone Gap
from s % to g. 50 per ton. and the Bessemer
ore from $500 to 50. 80 per ton.
Limestone will cost at least twice as much
at Pittsburg as at Big Stone Gap.
II is said that 700 tons OF Pocahontas coke
y. sscs west through Bristol daily for furnaces
IN hc Alabama and Chattanooga districts.
This coke will cost from $3.75 to $3.50 per ton
! ri those furnaces.
These facts show The smaller cost Of coke
and IRON orc at Big Stcnc Gap and require 20
comment Coke can be delivered at the ovens
here much cheaper than these figures Indicate,
IND still afford large profit to the maker.
OPINION OF TWO ENGLISH EXPERTS.
! Mr.. John " Darby, OF Wexham, Eng, and
| Mr. 7. Monks, OF Warrington Eng, members
J Of the British Iron 4 Steel Institute, recently
+ visited Big Stone Gap. Mr.. Darby is Young
man, but has already reached prominent po-
sition among the iron and steel producers of
England He inherits his aptnoss for thesein-
dnstries from ancestors who have been prom
/ ncut in them for century. His grandfather
was the first TO make iron from knocked coal,
and his own plant, located near Chester, was
thc first to use successfully the basic process
/ for making steel. Mr.. Monks is one of the
oldest and best known ofthe practical iron and
/ coke men OF England.
''The very things wanted to see are here
] did not care to see the manufactures in oper-
: ,tion. for we have those at home as numerous
and as nearly perfect as ore could wish to Sec
! although must sar that have been greatly
surprised and pleased at the great concerns NC
saw in the North. Their equipments are not
so complete nor their methods SO economical rs
ours in England but they are rapidly APP
preaching It, What those Of US who mean
! business wished 10 see in America is Just what
! | have seen today at Biz Stone Gap: as fine
/ coke as have ever seen in England, with iron
ores only two miles away. and limestone be-
tween, together with water power and railroads.
/ This is combination that is bound TO MAKE
YOU great here. have ncce3' Seenit clh1tcd
! elsewhere lour coke is the best have seen
| in America. The brown ores we inspected to-
dav arc admirably adapted to The basic process.
OF course, your proximity to the magnetic ores
at Cranberry is great card in your favor, but
YOU will not need that to make the possibilities
! Of this point simply ncalculable. We have
been over Z large portion of the Southern min
eral belt. ard regard this as the best point
we have seen for the manufacturing Of basic
steel, owing TO The quality and quantity of
your bsown ores and their proximity TO this
coke. have enjoyed my day here greatly,
and hope | can return s0Dn.'
Mr.. Monks spoke in the same s.rain, saying
/ he had been practical producer of coke and
iron for forty years, and that he had never seen
better coke, and the iron ore, both brown and
red we're fine. lie thought the best card for
the future of Big Stone Gap in the iron indus
trr yas the advantage it had over any other
place he bad seen for'the production of steel by
/ the basic process.
TIMBER.
| Prof. Proctor in his report says of the tim,
her: About 90 per cent al the area included
| in the Appalachian coal-fcldin Southwest Vir-
",nia. West Virginia, and Southeast Kentucky,
IS coy.red with forest of valuable hardwoods--
OAK, yclIcw poplar, hickory, etc. The Black
Mountains, Immediately north OF Big Stone
Gap, are heavily timbercd from base to sum
nit With as magnificent forests as have ever
seen.