The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-21
@sSAnd this by another chemist of brown hem
kite, (dricd at 2l2 deg. Farcnheit) six miles

Besides these there are also on railroads
srnning here another brown ore carrying from
III to co per cent of iron, and .0l9 Of ph0SphO-
rus; manganiter0us iron ores, and in all prob
sbility large deposits of manganese; black
|simonitc with from so to SIS per cent of iron
fsFell suited for the pneumatic Basic prOcess);
n spccular or red hematite O}essemcr) with
6S TO IS per cent of iron, while of the great
granberry magnetic ore Prof. Proctor, in his
Export, says:
Extending northeast and southwest through
The western counties of North Carolina are
Fargo deposits of the purest magnetic iron ores
kaown i'll this country save in the Lake Super
|far region. These ores, from number of
samples averaged by myself and officers of the
Zenith Census and others, analyze from IS per
rsnt to 66 per cent of iron, and are, in Mitchell
land Ashe counties, North Carolina, remarkably
Esee from PHOSPHORUS and sulphur. Recent
along line of thirty miles in ex-
Gent prove the excessive nature of these depos-
HIS. The only point where these ores have as
|Gss been reached by Il railway is at Cranberry
|egine, in Mitchell county, North Carolina. A few
yaars ago the great mass of ore now uncovered
|9st this point was hid by thick covering of soil
|Hnd decomposed gneSS, save only few sur
faee pits from which small forge was sup
'plied with ORE Within the past few years the
pace of the hill has been uncovered, revealing
IA enormous mass Of very pure magnetic to a
hsigth of 800 feet above the railway track. The
|epgineer in charge at the mines assured me
SBat from damonddrll tests and the uncov-
Erred mass, he had here piled up above the
galway track Over 20,000,00O tons of ore to
aa mined by simply quarrying in open cut; and
saoubt II an ore of like excellence can be deiiy-
.ssed on cars at less cost elsewhere in. America.
Asfnrnace test was recently made on Virginia
Sase and the run OF mine of Cranberry ore, and
Asplg produced containing .03 per cent of phos-
ss#Hrus; ana from practical furnace tests and
sSe analyses OF ore from many openings, it is
DEMONSTRATED that the entire district contains
N&apahaahce an ore suited to the manufacture
hi Ressemer steel. This ore is nearer to coke
ak Big Stone Gapl than is any other Besserner
.8k&fs ore known to me in America. From the
aSsemer ores of the lake region, the source of
sSSely all the steel n0w made In this country,
Sae nearest coke is shout 500 miles; from
bessemer ores of western North Caroliaa to
@Sscoke at Big Stone Gap it is 100 miles, and
seStgeen these two extremes are to BE- had the
FS}0ns ores above described. Beyond the
Ssss A'dge IN the Car0linas, are large deposits
grace ores. very great development
@Sae manufacture Of iron and steel will follow
ssfhe completion Ofthe roads connecting the
ss'g Goals aud ores, in the region under dis
s$&6i0n.
sssAs scotch iron manufacturer of large expc-
S8aee, VINO spent some months in examining
seScals and ores IN the district extending from
eastern Kentucky to'wcstern North Car
Ies, estimates the cost Of making ton of pig
slSeat big Stone Gap ut 81 sc; and thinks that
e&9smer steel can be made at the Same place
low cost as in England. This estimate