The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-06-26
Cost OF coke at Goaincllssiilc December 1880:
fafiiace coke, S1 rs pet ton Foundry coke 81 s

Total shipments from Conncllsvie Tor wcekollt,,s
November u $780, 6,97I cars, distributed as follew
10 ittseargh l,5C8 cars; 10 the West 4,1@i cars 4
| the East, l.3i7 cars.
Besscmcr ore is costing at Pittsburg 81 81
per ton, and onBcsscmcr ore costs at Pitts
burg from $500 to 5000 per ton.
Nom Bessemcr orc will cost at Big Stone Gar
from Via to S2.50 per tor, and the Besscmei
| orc from $500 to so per ton.
Limestone will cost at least twice as much
at Pittsburg as at Big Stone Gap.
1t is said that 700 tons of Pccahontas coke
passes west through Bristol daily Cor furnaces
IN the Alabama and Chattanooga districts.
This coke will cost from So 10 to 81 so per ton
ut those furnaces.
These facts show the smaller cost Of coke
and iron ore at Big Stone Gap and require NO
comment. Coke can be delivered at the ovens
here much cheaper than these figures indicate
and still afford large profit to the maker.
oriNiON OF TWO ENGLISH EXPERTS.
Mr.. John w. Darby, of Wexham, Eng, and
Mr.. r. Monks, Of Warrington, Eng, members
of the British Iron 4 Steel Institute, recently
visited Big Stone Gap. Mr.. Darby is a young
man, but has already reached prominent po-
sition among the iron and steel producers OF
England. He inhcrts his aptness for these in
dustrles from ancestors who have been prom
inent in them for a century. His grandfather
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 and best known of the practical iron and
coke men of England.
1.-The very things wanted to see are here.
did not care to see the manufactures 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 their methods so economical as
ours i'll 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 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.
This is Il combination that is bound to make
YOU great here. have ncUer seen IL cqU0{cd
elsewhere. Your coke is the best have seen
in America The brown ores we inspected to-
day arc admirably adapted to the basic process.
OF course, your proximity to the magnetic ores
at Cranberry is a great card in your favor, bUt
YOU will not need that to make the possibilities
of this point simply incaculablc. We have
been over large portion of the Southern min
crai belt, and | regard this as the best point
VIC nave Sccu ioI tuc manufacturing WI pHSiC
steel, owing to the quality and quantity of
your brown ores and their proximity to this
coke. have enjoyed my day here greatly,
and hope can return soon.'
Mr.. Monks spoke III the same strain, saving
he had been practical producer of coke and
iron for forty wears, and that he had never seen
better coke: and the iron orc, both brown and
red were fine. He thought the best card for
The future of Big Stone Gap i'll 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.
TIHBER.
Prof. Proctor in his report SAYS of the TIM
Der: "About 30 per cent of the area included
IN the Appalachian oal-iicd in Southwest Nir-
ginia, West Virginia, and Southeast Kentucky,
is covered with forest of valuable lardwoods-
oak, yellow poplar, hickory, etc. The Black
Mountains, Immediately north of Biz one
Gap, are heavily timbercd from base 10 sum
nit with as magnificent forests as | have ever
seem