The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-03


sheltered. The smelling works have been
located on a long split to the east OF
the town, accessible and commodious,
and having deep-water frontage of one
and a quarter miles. The output Of the
furnaces can thus be transferred at once
from the shores to the cargo boats with
out any of the intermedite landings or
carriage of the American article.
THE DISTANCE FACTOR.
The same advantages are found with
respect to the conveyances of the prod
uct across the ocean. Taking Liverpool
as representative British port 1t Will
be found that the distance thereto from
the leading ports on this continent are
as follows: From Sydney, 2,2S2 miles;
Montreal, 2.661; New York, 3,13O; Phila-
delphia, S,1S5; Mobile, 4,570; New Orleans,
| 1870. Sydney, therefore, is greatly bet
tered in this respect over the chicago
product which finds an outlet through
Montreal; the Pittsburg article which is
exported by way of New York and Phil
adeIphia; the Alabama output for which
the arteries are Mobile and New Orleans
| Sydneys comparative proximity to the
markets of Europe, its splendid location
at the very eastern extremity of the con-
tinent, its commanding position as re-
CARDS the readiness and cheapneSS with
which the essentials can be assembled
at the point of production-these AFFORD
a superiority which can scarcely be ques-
toned.
Up to the present the production OF
pig iron In Canada has been but in
finitesimal, never yet reaching l0OCOO
tons a year. This, too, in spite OF
generous bounty granted by the fed
eral government at Ottawa some years
ago, in order to stimulate the home man
ufacture and avoid the fgnominious cir
fk1e 1rnT1
in the Dominion being imported across
the border from the United States The
bounty was about to be abandoned
mainly because two-thirds of the amount
paid went to American ore, Wh1ch mao
to be obtained to keep the domestic
shelters running, but Whitney, with ms
project for an up-to-date establishments
caused modification of this design.
The bounty is now extended for eight
years, reducing somewhat annually by
a sliding scale until at the end OF TINS
neriod it is extinguished altogether. me
support the new enterprise Will receive
from this agency will be considerable,
and ere it is withdrawn the WORKS WIZ
he so firmly established that the loss OF
the bounty will not be felt. Inc pldst
furnaces are expected to turn out oaIly
1,4OO tons of pig iron, an annual output
Of Eli 900 tons, which, at 81 a ton, Will
a
mill is estimated to produce 800 tons
day, or 1872, 600 tons year, the bounty on
which at $3.50 a ton, would amount 10
S43S, 600, a total bounty Tor the hrst year
the pIant is in operation of 81, 4600OV. Al
lowing for the sliding scale of reductions
II is more than likely that the company
will receive about $6,0OO,0O0 IN pounlles
before these are eXtinguished.
SHIFT IN IRON AND STEEL TRADE.
With all these advantages in favor OF the
sydney works the claim does not seem eX-
travagant that the starting of the smelter
there will work a revolut on in the iron
and steel trade. The production Oh tnesS
commodities in the more western centeFS
will have to be at reduced rate OF pronl,
as an expert authority as 5erts that Syohey
will be able to produce them at IS a ton
less than the price now ruling with those
concerns which are likely to be its COM
netitors. The same authority estimates
that this VIII represent an annual loss OF
81 800 coo to PittSburg, in view or the pres
ent and prospective output of that center.
The practical initiation of the Sydney pro-
iect has given life to two other concerns
of similar character, one to be established
at North Sydney, a sister town across
the harbor. and the other at Canso, few
miles distant. The plans for the former of
these are now about complete, but the lat
ter scheme is not so far advanced. The
arguments which apply in favor of Sydney
are in the main, applicable to both the
other locations, and there is room for
them all.
An article on the Sydney enterprise
would not be complete unless 1T gave
description of the site and plant. The
former covers 504 acres, is one Of the most
acceptable in the region and the water
frontage is one and a quarter miles long.
The plant is made up as follows: -Four
hundred by-product coke ovens Of the OF
to-Hoffman type, with a total daily capa-
city of 1000 tons, using $500 tons of coal.
All the y-products-gas, tar, ammonia
will be utilized and disposed of. Four
blast furnaces, each with a capacity of $50
tons a day, or 1,400 tons altogether. These
are similar to Carnegie's latest Pittsburg
type, and two will be completed by Sep
tember 1 one by January and the fourth
by April l. Twelve open hearth furnaces
for the manufacture of steel, that process
having been determined upon in prefer
ence to Bessemer, as the latter is declin-
ing in popularity; rolling mill for the
transformation of the billets into such
structural forms as may be determined
upon later.
TO BUILD SHIPS ALSO.
A shipbuilding plant, it is expected, will
be established in the future, for which in
dustry the surroundings are decidedly ia
vorable, and in that case the present plant
will be doubled, the capital stock of the
company having been fixed at a figure
sufficiently large-$2o, Gee OOO-to make that
feasible.
Up to date the outlay has been as fol-
lows:
Coke ovens ..................... s.. 250. COO
BlaSt- furnaces $3.50. ............... $500 COO
holIIng mill ..:...-................. 1000, 600
Work on site, etc ................ 1 goo geo
BelliSle mine Observation-Disclosures. 000 mn
Interest on outlay till work starts 500 600
1olal ...... ......................$ SIS, $50 600
Piers, wharves, foundries, machine
shops offices, lines of trans electric
light plant, water supply and sewerage
plant, giant cranes and the multitude of
other accessories are provided, and some
1900 men are at work in all these sew
eral departments, besides 1000 men en-
ployed in the coal mines and 1000 at
Bellisle. Everything is being carried outs
on first-class scale and bears evidence
of being the work of a master mind.
The day the first blast furnace is light
ed will be a great one for Sydney.
G. A. R.-Thfrty-Fourth National En-
campment ut Chicago, Aug. 81
Sept, 1, 1900.
Commencing Aug. 18th, the Chicago
Great Western Railway the road tha +