The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-05-18
Cost OF coke ut Connellsvclle December 1890:
Furnace coke 81 Is per ton. Foundry coke, $245
,, ro,no,Is (,nst M these DOints

Total shipments from ConnesviIle for week ending
November o. $780, GOT cars distributed rs follows:
TO Pittsburgh, 1900 cars; the West, 400 cars; to
the East, l,3l7 cars.
Besscmer ore is costing at Pittsburg $7.56
per ton, non Bcsscmcr ore costs at Pitts
burg from $500 to $500 per ton.
-Bessemer ore will cost at 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 as
much at Pittsburg as at Big Stone Gap.
1t is said 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 Mt those furnaces.
These facts show the smaller cost OF
coke and iron ore at Big Stone Gap and
REQUIRE no comment. Coke can be dcliv-
cred at the ovens here much cheaper than
these figures indicate, and still afford
large profit to the maker.
OPINION OF TWO ENGLISH EXPERTS.
Mr.. John ". Darby, of Wexham, Eng,
and Mr.. f. Monks, of Warrington, Eng,
members of the British Iron l. Steel In
stitute, recently visited Big Stone Cap.
Mr.. Darby is young man, but has already
reached a prominent position among the
iron and steel producers Of England. He
inhcrits his aptncss 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-
fer, was 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.
"The very thing want to see are here
I did not care to see the manufactures III
operation, for we have those at home us
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 Nerth.
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 bust
ness wish to see in America isjust 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 combination that is
bound to make you great mere. have
i,eter seen ii egualed elsewhere. Your coke
is the best | have seen in America. The
brown ores We inspected to-day are adj.
miral,le adapted to the basic process. OF
course your proximity to the magnetic
orers atSCranberry is u great card i'll Your
favor, but yon will not need that to make
the possibilities of this point simply meal
culablc WeLaye been over large por-
ton of the Southern mineral belt, and
regard this as the best point VIC have seen
for the manufacturing of basic steel,
owing TO the quality md quantity of Your
brown ores and their proximity to this
coke. Ihaye enjoyed my day here greatly,
and hope can return soo,l,'
Dir. Monk spoke I'm flc sasoc strain, say
ins he had been i practical producer 81
coke and iron for forty years, and lint ne