New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-29
4 NEW TRIUMPH FOR EDISON,
SAID TO HAVE A PROCESS FOR RECON-
ERING THE IRON IN LOW-GRADE ORES.
NEARLY 100000 OF HIS PRIVATE FORTUNE
SPENT IL EXPERIMENTS BEFORE He
ACHIEVED SUCCESS - ELECTRICAL
MAGNETISM THE SECRET OF
TIE NEW PROcEs.


Thomas y Edison has discovered process of
recovering by means of electricity the iron con-
tanned in low-gradc ores according to The Ele =
tiical Review" whch expresses the opinion that 1t
will have a far-roaching effect upon the iron indus
Try throughout the world.
For the last six years according 70 an announce
m-nt which The Review" now makes, Mr. Edison
has been working quietly and steadily to solve the
problem. His experiments have been carried on at the
old Ogden iron mines. i few mites from Dover. " j..
and he has spent about $4,000 of his money to
achieve success. The plant whore the rev process
was first tired and thcn brought 10 PERFECTION
covers scye.ai acres OF ground ana Is part OF A
tract or three thousand acres of mountain land.
which. Nj Edison says. contains two hundred
million tons OF low-grade ore. and from which. NJ
declares by this new process. hfty million tons OF
iron can he produced. His plant. though more o.
experiment station than a comm'rclli enter
prise is to-day capable OF producing daily from one
thousand hfieen hundred tons Of almost chem
icdily pure iron.
The extent OF NJ Fdison's operations, Il is said
may be judged from the fact that Ac now controls
all the known tracts OF magnetic In The United
States He purchased large blocks of lana. until ne
has now accumulated sixteen thousand acres In
Ncw-York. New-Jorscy and Pennsylvania.
Like the majority 0, his intentions. this latest
achievement Of NJ. Edison. according 10 the news
papers description OF Il; Is comparatively simple.
Il consists in applying tho principle of the magnet.
but on a tremendous scale. BY this means ne
draws tie lite black Particles q ore from the pull
vcrzci rock In b;ief his process CONSISTS III
blasting the from tho mountain siies. ani then
by mtans OF steam shoy.is and miniature ralio1h
cars conveying j. massive cTusn'rS. "h'ft ~ -
broken up and passed on TO other mus ana lci -
is pHlVcrizcd The powder j. then allowed 70 iai
i'm proximity 20 cccfr0-ma cncts. when dcN''i
the iron 20 one side while the nonmeidllir matter
fails hy gravity 10 th, other sii". From ih" time
the ore is blasted u1tH h. j. resolved io ths hrla
lie form and compressed into hrqucites LOT SNIP
ment the process Is entirely automatic.
OF his success Mr.. Edison says. te,l'F' thd.
operation ana every process l. NV on Il pract'dl
basis AMI / think my work Is done.
In cOucraiuiatnE Mr.. Edison on MS acti'fefn"nt
1.-THE Electrical Review says: This new Ei'ii
ton and constant courag" OF this man oi n,nta'
equipment and physical Nigor. who seems uhhni. 10
cease from m Undertaking until success come.
Charles W. Price. editor Of tN' Journh. q'o.'N
which tells oi 'he discover, IN detail vas aNk"a
ve~fcriy about ihc statement that me inventor hIf
expended nearly Isw'en before receiving any i"-
.urn lie sad: u believe these figures 10 be ap-
proximatol5 correct Ellison from MS own means.
pui in s. -oi 00 and about 5000 came from oth"r4
ALTHOUGH he o. 81 man. with 4 large income M
Was time some eighteen months ago "n"n f
looked a. II hts entire fortune would 10 r"1lf'1 20
carry the WOrk through. with W. 1rotIouSht.
understand hc secured his f3milv hr stocks ana
never n a.. nv interview with him seemed 10 hato
thOuEut of f3ilur" uut. ~ course. desired 10 pro-
vide against accident 10 himself.
1T g. said thar shortly after IN" Ho,k "as "eH
begun Edison took $1,000 that he had laid away
I'm Government bonds anl invested 1t - these eH-
pcrimcn;s as a preliminary II would s""H row
hat he knew whar hc wa doing His faiih WAS
really sublime. with the experts al against HIM