The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-06-12
ssy r',s y, coke az Connelsviiie December 1890.
ia.sce COKE 2l5 per ton. Foundry coke. 81.

\ total shipments from Connesvillc for wcc. or.,;n
~ y 1885, G,97 cars distributed AK fo,lew
| the East. l,3iI cars ~ ' ~
nesseincr ore is costing at Pittsburg 81 sc
| per soa, anu non-Bessemer ore costs at Pitts
ourg from $500 to 5000 per ton
Non n, bessemcr ore will cost at Big Stone Gan
rom ai.22 to $3.50 per ton, aud the Bcssc,ncr
ore from $500 TO $3.50 per ton.
limestone will cost at least twice ne mrch
at Pittsburg as at Big Stone Gap. s"
II Is said that 200 tons Of Pocahontas coke
passes west through Bristol daily for furnaces
III the Alabama and CHATTANOOGA districts
ans coke will cost from S3.75 to 81 80 Der ton
al those furnaces.
ihesc facts show the smaller cost of coke
ahG IRON ore at Big Stone Gap and require no
comment. Coke can be delivered at the ovens
mere much cheaper than these figures indicate.
ana sun afford a large profit to the maker.
OPINION OF TWO ENGLISH EXPERTS.
;, Mir: John W. Darby, of Wcxham, Eng. and
M cn +. MONKS, OF Warrington, Eng, members
Q. thc b y, Iron Steel Institute, recently
VISITED b'g Stone Gap. Mr.. Darby is Young
man MAJ oo' iias already reached a prominent po-
S 81 among me iron and steel producers of
England. lie inhcrits his aptncss for these in
duSires from ancestors who have been prom
'nsnl ~ ,hcm Tor century. His grandfather
was INC nrSt TO make iron from unlocked coal
and his own plant, located near Chester. was
Tue iirSt to use successfully the basic process
Tor making steel. Mr.. Monks is one of the
oldest and best known of the practical iron and
coke men of England
The very things wanted to sec are hero
u'o not care to see the manufactures in nper-
alton. for We have those at home as numerous
ana as nearly perfect as one could wish to sec,
although must say that have been greatly
surprised and pleased at the great concerns VIC
saw III the North. Their equipments arc not
so complete nor their methods so economical rs
ours IN England, but they are rapidly an
preaching it. What those of us who mean
business wished to sec in America is lust what
have seen to-day at Big 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.
Tins rs combination that is bound to make
YOU great here. have ncUer seen IL c0u0{cd
elsewhere. \ our coke is the best | have seen
in America. The brown ores we inspected to-
day are admirably adapted to the basic process.
Vi course, yonr proximity to the magnetic ores
at Cranberry is 4 great card in your favor, but
YOU will not need that to make the possibilities
of this point simply incalculablc We have
been over 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 thc quality and quantity of
your brown ores and their proximity to this
COKE: | have enjoyed my day here greatly,
anj hope ! can return Soon
Mr.. Monks spoke in the same strain, saving
he had been d 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 were fine. He thought the best card for
the future of Big Stone Gap in the iron indus
Try was the advantage it had over any other
place he had seen for the production of steel by
the basic process.
TIMBER.
Prof Proctor in his report says of the tim
Der: "About 80 per cent of the area included
in the Appalachian coaltield in Southwest Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, and Southeast Kentucky,