The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-10-23
This coke will cost from 3d. Is tc 81 so per Ton

This coke will cost from SD. rs to 81. 80 per ION
! at those furnaces.
These facts show the smaller cost of coke
| and iron ore Mt Big Stone Gap and require no
| comment Coke can he delivered at the ovens
here nuc.a cheape: fhas, these tgnres indicate,
and still afford 4 large profit TO the maker.
opINIoS OF Two ENGLISH EXPERTS.
| Mr. John W.sDarby, of Ncxham, Eng, and
/ Mr.. +. Monks, Of Warrington, Eng, members
| of the British Iron 4 Steel Institute, recently
| visited Big Stone Gap Sir. Darby is a young
man, but has already reached prominent po-
siton among the iron and steel producers OF
England. He,inherts his aptDcss for theseln
| dustries from ancestors who have been prom
inenti in them for a century. His grandfather
| was the first to make iron from knocked 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 the
Oldest ard best known of the practical iron and
coke men Of England.
"The very things ] wanted to see arc here.
/ did not care to see the manufacturers 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 theirmetlods 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 at Big Stone Gap: as tiNe
coke as nave ever seen in England, with iron
ores only two miles away, AID limestone be-
tween, together Wit. Water power and railroads.
This is a combination ;iIat is bound to make
yna great here. have nc.eySceA u cghafed
elsewhere. Your coke is The best have seen
in America The brown ores we inspected to-
day are admirably adapted 10 The basic process.
OF course, your proximity to the magnetic ores
at Cranberry is great card in your favor, but
Won will moi need that to make the possibilities
of this point simply incalculable. We have
been over a large portion Of the Southern min
eral belt, and | regard this as the best point
we have seen for the manufacturing of basic
steel, owing to the quality and quantlt; OF
vour brown ores and then proximity to tli-
coke. have enjoyed No. day here greatly.
and hope can return so"n.
Mr.. Monks spoke il t,:c same strain, saying
lie had been Il practical proInccr Of coke and
iron for forty years, and tlat he Iiad.Ieycr seen
better coke; and l!lc iron ore, both brown and
red were fine. lie thought the best card for
the future Of Big Stone Gap in the iron indus
try was the advantage il had over any other
place he had seen for the production of steel by
the basic process.
Prof Proctor III his report says of the tim
Der: "About so per cent Of the area included
in the Appalachian Goa! field in Southwest Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, and Southeast Kentucky,
is covered with forest Of valuable hardwoods-
oak, yellow poplar, hickory, etc. The Black
Mountains, Immediately north OF Big Stone
Gap, are heavily timbered from base to SUM
NIT with as magnificent forests as have ever