The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-08-03
:. q, cake a, Cunsllsyelle December 1880 !:

Total shipments from Counelsvll'e for week ending
November q, 1890, 8.sT7 cars. distributed us follows
To Pittsburgh, 500 cars; the West, 4leo cars tt
the East, 1917 cars.
Bessemer ore is costing al Pittshurg - DIT
per ton, non -Bessemer ore costs at Pitts
burg from $500 to $500 per ton.
Non-Bessemer ore will costa Big Stone
Gap from 81 25 to $3.50 per ton, and the
Bessemer ore from $500 to $3.50 per ton
Limestone will cost at least twice az
much at Pittsburg as ut Big Stone Gap
1t is said that 700 tons Of Pocahontas
coke passes west through Bristol daily ton
furnaces in the Alabama and Chattanooga
districts. This coke will cost from 1919 TO
81 so per ton at those furnaces.
These facts show the smaller cost OF
coke and iron ore at Big Stone Gap and
require no comment Coke can DC dcliv-
cred at the ovens here much cheaper than
these figures indicate, and still afford u
large profit to the maker.
OPINION OF TWO ENGLISH EXPERTS.
Mr.. John w. Darby. Of WeAhanl, Eng,
and Mr.. F. Monks, Of Warrington, Eng,
members of the British Iron y Steel In
stitute, recently visited Big Stone Gap.
Mr.. Darby is Young man, but has already
reached prominent position among the
iron and steel producers Of England. He
inherits his aptness for these industries
from ancestors who have been prominent
in them for century. His grandfather
was the first to make iron from knocked
coal, and his own plant. located near Ches-
ter, was first to use successfully the basic
nrocoss for making steel Mr. Monks is
one of the oldest and best known of the
practical iron and coke men Of England.
"The very thing want to see are here.
I did not care to see the manufacturers III
operation, for we have those at home rs
numerous and as nearly perfect as one
could wish to see, although must say that
have been greatly surprised and pleased
ut the great concerns we saw in the North.
Their equipments are not so complete nor
their methods so economical as ours IN
England, but they are rapidly approach
ing it. What those of US who mean BUSH
ness wish to see in America is just what
] have seen to-day at Big Stone Gap; as
fine coke as have seen In England, with
iron ores only two miles away, and Lime
stone between, together water power and
railroads. This is a combination that is
bound to make you great here. have
rerer seen IL equaled elsewhere. Your coke
ia the best j have seen in America. The
brown ores we inspected to-day are ad-
n,iralle1 adapted 10 the basic process. or
course your proximity to the magnetic
orers 81 Cranberry is great card in your
favor, but YOU will net need that to make
the possibilities of this point simply incal-
culahlei .Weshaye been over a large por-
ton Of the Southern mineral belt, and l
regard this as the best point we have seen
for the manufacturing Of basic steel,
owing to the quality and quantity of your
brown ores ard their proximity 70 this
coke. Ihaye enjoyed my day here greatly,
and hope I can return soon.
Mr.. Monk spoke in the same strain, say
ing he had been a practical producer of
coke and iron for forty years, and that he
he had never seen better coke and the