The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-17
IRON AND TIN.
San Diego Furnaces for the Re-
ductiOn Of the Ores.
Recent Inauguration Of an Enterprise Which
Will Stimulate Mining in South.
ern California.

DR.. c. j. Eames of the San Diego Iron and
augurated in the Bay City, is no in this
city for the purpose of purchasing ma
chinery to be used in the reduction works.
DIR. Eames has been guaranteed a bonus of
$500. 600 and fifty acres of land by citizens
of San Diego in aid of the industry, which
will be the only one Of the kind west of the
Rockies.
FL. Warren Wilson. B. McCready and J.
f. Neeley, all of San Diego. have located
the Ord Mountain and Dry Lake iron mines,
about sixteen miles east of Newberry, San
Diego County, where they have discovered
what appears to be inexhaustible quantities
of iron ore CT the same quality as that of the
G0gebic iron on the Menomnee River and
the Republic ore Of the Marquette District
on Lake Superior. The ore is low in phos-
phorus and silica, contains no sulphur, but
has from Is to 70 per cent Of metallic iron,
and exists as magnetic, hematte, specular
and spathic ores. 1t is easily obtainable,
can be quaIried, not requiring TO be mined
and one vein. it is claimed, is ITS feet wide.
This ore will furnish the crude material for
the reduction works at San Diego.
PLAN OF MILLING.
The plan of milling the ore is known as
the Eames direct iron process, patented by
DR.. Eames five years ago. and since that
time in operation in the Carbon Iron Works
Of Pittsburg. Pa, from which the boilers
and steel plates for the Charleston were
procured. Its main feature is the use of
petroleum, btumen and Ignite instead of
coal for fuel. the oil being obtained from
wells of Santa Barbara and Ventura coun-
d.; 4a, n H.,
and steel can be produced In San Diego at
about the same cost as in Pittsburg.
1.-The ore as it comes from the NINE" said
DR.. Eames in describing his process to a
CALL reporter last night, "is pulyerized and
ground. and then sufficient quantity of any
carb0naceous matter is added to the pulver-
lied ore, which is placed in au ordinary
rever5eratory furnace and is evenly spread
on the bottom of the furnace, and the lat
ter with its charge heated until rei-hot and
maintained in this condition for an hour.
The temperature of the furnace is then
raised until CULTIVATION of fine particles of
iron takes place.
UNDER THE HAMMER.
AT the end of two hours the iron is baled
up, removed from the furnace and placed
under the hammer, making what is known
as the bloom, used for the manufacture of
mercantile iron or for crucible steel, and
more particularly for 'open-h hearth steel,
from which are made nails sheetiron, armor
plate and axleS. Crucible steel is made for
the manufacture of picks, shoyels aud edged
tools of all kinds.
Both iron and steel are of the highest
quality and can be used besides the purposes
mentioned for structural work and bridges.
As the annual consumption of blooms in
California aggregates $1,000 tons and Of pig
iron about 100000 tons, and as the freight
from PIttsburg is now SIT 90 per ton, l
think our enterprise may be deemed highly
important.
THE COAL PROBLEM.
blast furnaces will be an impossibility
in California;" continued DIR. Eames,
until the fuel problem is solved These
furnaces require anthracite coal or Con-
neilsville coke, which are solid and COM
pact, sustaining the burden of the blast
furnace. Many attempts have been made
in this State to manufacture charcoal pig
iron, but the method has been found too
expensive"
DIR. Eames expects to have his new enter
prise IN operation by September LIST, with
plant capable of producing 100 tons of
blooms daily from 200 tons Of ore. He also
intends to construct train of rolls for
making tinplate, using for this purpose the
tin from the Temescal mines. Employment
in the rOlling-mills and crucible furnaces
will be given to 600 men.
Dr. Eames' chief associate In the in
auguration of the enterprise is William P
Shinn OF Pittsburg, Pa.