Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-10-07

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There are no other limitations to electric
- there ave to steam locomotives.
''fs electrical mining mAking pregeess:"
Yes said the visard, enthusiastically.
1--WE have inva led New Y cfk state. We
have leased from the Reading Raiifcsd the
great ore deposits Of the Csnopus Valley,
near Peekskill. We have purchased from
Senator james Of Nevada, . small railroad,
SIX miles losg. rsnniug up the valley. We
| are extending is seven miles ard sre build
ing concentrating works for purifying BY
eis c.rieity the large bodies Of poor iron ore.
The Resding Rsi,,cai got that property =
great many years ago and never did any
| thing with ii. The ore 10 Of poor grade.
but there 10 an enormous deposit Of it--one
OF the most continued in the country.
Thoush IL 10 teo low in grade to pay for
working it direcs, By working it through
our pre- cess we'll mske it All right The
compsng 10 called the New York Ccncen-
uating Company. Then there is the New
jersey ard PennsylvAaia Concentrating
Company, whose operation at Ogden. N,
j., start up permanently on Oct. 10 am
going up there again before settle here
for my winters work.
This electric mining 10 my biggest
scheme 1t is Tremendous chsnge in the
methods Of getting iron ere. II is fr
reaching. Since started ia that business
eight differea. coupsn es have gone into
Ii. They all hooted at it st frat but they
are finding out lie impor a1ce. II tisarev-
olution, that 10 what it is. A good many Of
the veins in Ns~ Jersey pass through rock
that is impregrsted with iron on both sides
Of the vein. struck the idea of not work
ing tie veins but Of bias ing down the
whole mountain and with powerful machio-
cry crushi: 9 the matter up aud getting the
ore out by magnetism
Crush mountains. Mr.. Edison, Tb.ts
pretty rough on natural seensr isn's it?'
"Well' vas the smiling reply, II hAvs
several men out all the time looking up
tbote minerAhzed mountains. We have
got one mountain With 400 feet OF mineral
ized mst,er--three miles long. Oh, there's
plenty Of ii. We can pass through 1000
tons 4 day ia our crushers. Thst's only
= starter. If everything wo,ks all right
we'il have several mills up at Ogden. We
could crush the Palisades AZ the rate Of
200 feet day. pretty near-triple expan-
sion engines, too"
Crush the Palisades
Mr.. + iisou wasn't sure for half . minute
that his remarks bad not been taken seri.
ously. Then he laughed snd said: "Well,
the Palisaies are safe. Fact is. they have
only per cent of iron. II they had about
IA could make money out Of it
"Uader our process" he continued, 1--WE
fod that the yield 10 enough to pay. We
get pure Bessemer ore and get high price
for it The st. # comes cut naturally from
the veins only so per ce1t pure. We make
our ore pretty near pure.
"There 10 practically no Bessemer ore in
New jersey, and We make ours all into
Bessener by this process. One and half
millions Of tons Of ore are imported anou-
alp from Spsin. Algers ard Cuba. We
must pay about four or five million dollsrs
every year to Spain and Cubs for the ore.
Wha. is the user All it wants ia the sand
to go ahead and get il out. It's just Ike a
gold ore. If it costs IS to work it aud
there is 81 in it. it might as well be rock.
You see, the Lord tied string to that ore,
The conversation switched off TO the
kinetogrsph-ihst marvel which 10 to repro
duce accurately both scenes and sounds
,he figure Of an orator in action, and with
the action the words that accompanied it
81 think we'll have the kinetogreph
through in tina for the Worlds Fair,
said its inventor. That's what | an
working on it for. We're msking one with |
q larger picture. The first kinstograph |
photographed quarter Of an inen square, !
ard the picture was enlarged on screen |
Nov we're making it an inch square so as
to bring out the fine details. The fiiculty |
Of taking 46 photographs an inch square in !,
tecono, instead Of 46 nnly quafter of an |
inch square is great. You see, the appara-
tus now has to revolve with four times
greater speed-46 times in a secoud-And |
that speck OF time includes stopping the |
film, taking the photograph, closing 1t up
and starting again. Eight tenths of the
time it bas to be stopped 1t is moving |
only two tenths Of forty sixth Of second. |
You zee, it is enormcusly rapid. But We
afe doing pretty we'll with it. We want to |
bring out in life size q man making |
speech"
There has been lot of talk over the |
electric-transmietioa ex periments At Frank. |
fort, Germany, and some people have been |
saying that Ni.gara Falls will be New
York's "slsvey" and DO all her work before |
lopg. Mr.. Edison was asked about this.
"Tberes = good deal of mt o ,shine about |
it," vas his reply. There is more senti- |
ment than anything else sb,ut these trans
mission < experiments in Germany. Over 3
year ago 1 nsde complete plans to take
power from Niagara to Buffalo. 1t i,
simply . commercial question. There is
no difficulty in the electrical part of it.
T6ere is a point in the transmission Of
electrical power vi ere the triple expansion |
engine, with cheap cosl, will beat II, on
sccount Of The inerest on the in
invesmeht. Nothing will beat Nj
agsrs Falls current-tsking it to Buffalo |
But little further snd it will be very much |
cheaper TO Iut in triple expansion engine |
The system adopted in Germsny is called |
the alternating system, and SO fsr they have
no practical motor. / consider that method
Of ranmitting power IS 3 commercial mis-.
take. 1t can be done just as well by con-
tinuous currents.
"And now / must get to work. Good |
day"
The reporter had spant not quite half an
hour vi the Wizrd Of LlewelIyn park. |
Is here another man in America who can
in 80 minutes off hand conversation say 80
much that is worth repeating.