The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-11-27
der competition, but take them as they areaf,fi
compare them with prices at Coupc;isviile.
Cost q coke atConaelisvllie Decemhe9 1850
FafnaceSoke, -. Us per ton Foundry coke, - i.s

rota shipments from Co3nellSvia for week ondi..g
hoEcmber ~, 1890 G,%T cars. distributed ~ sellcw
10 tltss2utgh 500 cars: to The West 100 c;ys to
the East. l.3l7 cars.
Bcssemcr ore Is costing at Pittsburg 81 80
per ton, and non Bcssemer ore costs at Pitts
6urg from $500 to Sc. 90 per tor.
Nom BesSemcr ore will cost at Big Stone Ga}
from 81 %, 20 $3.50 per ton. and the Bcssemey
ore from $500 to 80 per ton.
Limestone will cost st least twice as n.ncl'
nj Pittsburg as n: Big Store Gap.
1t is said that 700 tons of. Pocahontas coke
passes west through Bristol daily FOR furnace:
IN the Alabama and Chattanooga districts.
This coke will cost from. $$;.75 to Sl5o per ton
&c those furnaces.
These facts show the smaller cost Of coke
and iron ore al Big Stone Gap and require nc
comment. Coke can be delivered at tie ovens
here much cheaper than these figures indicate
and still! 0tforda large profit to thr maker.
orIHIoN or TWO English ExrrE~s.
Alr. John ". Darby, Of Wcxhairl, Eng, and
&r. +. Monks, Of Warrington, Eng, members
OF The British Iron 4 Steel Institute recently
listed Big Stone Gap. Mr.. Darby is It Young
mar, but has already reached prominent j>o-
sJjon among The iron and stcc! producers Of
England. lie inher;ts his aptncss for these i-
dustries from ancestors who have hren prom :
il 2nt in them for a century His grandfather
and his own plant, located near Chester, was
thc first ia use successfully the basic process
for making steel. Mr. Monks is one OF the
oldest and best known Of the practical iron a':d
coke men OF England.
'''rhc very things | wanted 10 see arc here.
did not care to see tie manufactures III opcr-
aticn, for we have those - home as numerous
and as nearly perfect - could rsl! 81 sec,
although must say that / lave been greatly
H., p,
saw in the North. Their equipments are * (
50 complete nor sheir methods SO economical ,s
ours in England, but thcT arc rapidly az
preaching il. What those of III who mean
business wished to see in America is ust What
have seen to-day st Big Stone Gap: n fine
coke us ! have ever seen in England with iron
ores only two miles away, and limestone be-
tween, together with water power and railroads.
This Is a combination that is bound to make
you great here. ] have WeUD?' sem 10 cQATfod
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 Che magnetic ores
al Cranberry is 4 great card in your tavor, but
YOU will not need thar to make the possibilities
Of this ront simply incalculablc. We have
been over a large portion OF the Southern min
c:a belt, and regard this as the hcst poi':t
we have seen for the manufacturing OF basic
steel. owing to the quaint" ana quantity OF
your brown ores and their proximity TO this
coke. have eniovcd my day here greatly
and houc cen return soon.
Mr.. Monks spoke in the sam" strain, saving
he had been a practical producer -! coke and
iron for forty years and that he had never scen
better coke: and t;.c iron ore. both brown and
red were fine lie thought tiic best card for
Tie fu,urc.of Big Stcne Gap in the iron indus
trc was the advantage ii had over any other
place he had accn Cor thc productions OF steel b.
the basic process.
TIMBER.
Prof. PrcctaY in his report sass Of ,ae TN
Ter: "Aboci 90 per cent OF The area included
in the Appaiac!;a! nal-iield il Southwest Iii-
a..l S.l..a No.. a /. r eel.