The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-05-04
December 1890:
Cos, of coke at Connellsvclle December 1870:
Furnace coke 81. Is per ton. Foundry coke, S2.45
Freight rates from Connels. Cost at these POM

Total ahipments from COiinellsvie for week endlh@
November r. 1890. GOT cars, distributed follows
To Pittsburgh, $50 cars To the West, 400 cars to
the East, 1877 cars.
BessemcY orc is costing at Pittsburg $'.'o
per ton, non Bessemer ore costs at Pitts
burg from $500 to $500 per ton.
Non. Bessemar ore will cost at Big Stone
Gap from 81 IS to $3.50 per ton, and the
Bessemer ore from $500 to $3.50 per ton
Limestone will cost ut least twice as
much at plttsbnrs as at Big Stone Gap
tits sold that 700 tons Of pocahontas
coke passes west through Bristol daily for
furnaces In the Alabama and Chattanooga
districts. This coke will cost from 1919 to
81. 50 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 be dciv-
cred at the ovens here much cheaper than
these figures indicate, and still afford Il
large profit to the maker
OPINION oY r%o ENGLISH EXPERTS.
Mr.. John W. Darby, Of Wexham, Eng,
and Mr.. F. Monks, of Warrington. Eng,
members of the British Iron Steel In
stitutc. recently visited Big Stone. Gap.
Mr. Darby lie 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 frat TO make iron from knocked
coal, and his own plant, located near Chcs-
ter. wac first to use successfully the basic
process for making steel. Mr. Monks is
ono OF the oldest and best known Of the
practical iron and coke men of England.
"The very thing want to see arc here.
did not care to see the manufactures in
operation, 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
ut the great concerns we saw i'll the North.
Their equipments are not so complete nor
their methods 80 economical as ours in
England, but they are rapidly approach
Ing II. What those of US who mean bust
ness wlah to see in America sjust 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 ana
railroads. This is combination that is
bound TO make you great here. have
nerer seen itequaled elsewhere, Your coke
ia the best have seen in America. The
brown ores We inspected to-day are ad-
miratlc adapted to the basic>process. OF
course your proximity to the magnetic
orers as Cranberry is great card in your
favor, but you wiil not need that to make
the possibilities Of this point simply meal
calablc. We have been over large por-
ton of the Southern mineral belt, apd /
regard this az the best point we have seen
for the manufacturing Of basic steel,
owing TO the quality and quantity Of your
brown ores and their proximity to this
coke. Ihsve enjoyed my day. here greatly
and hope csa return soon
Mr. Monk spoke in the same strain, say
Z 40.
ing he had been o practical producer Of
coke aud iron for forty years, and that he