The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-25

his facilities for making steel and its prod
ucts, but also TO render himself indepenG-
ent OF all riHEs and syndiCates in all ferns
Of industry with which his business was
closely connected. He began to bug coal
mines. coke ovens. iron mines blast fur
naces. and so on In 1872 Alfred Krupp
owned IA iron ore diggings, and his son
and successor now has over 800 and all
but a small part Of the Krupp steel is
made from krupp's ore, smeIted by means
Of the coke he makes from his own coal
j has been she policy Of the establish
ment for many years to be entirely inde-
pendent Of all fluctuations in the prices Of
ere, pig iron. and coal, and so KrIpp has
not only acquired the ownership to the
lands which supply most of his raw ma
teriaL but ne has also laid in large stocks
purchased abroad
For a cong time four Krupp iron-ore
steamships were constantly plying be-
tween the north coast of Spain and Rot
te-dam, carrying the ore Of the famous
mines OF Bilbao to. the Dutch port. whence
ii was sent up the Rhine to within eight
cen miles Of Essen Today the coal and
iron mines owned by Krupp and mis- SUBJ
sidiaTy blast furnaces and steel works
are scattered far and wide His works
at kieI alone employ 1000 men and those
at Ma gdebuTg- BUckau :, 54S men and over
1900 men are employed in his foundries.
In 1858. six years after there began 4 de-
mand for krupp's products, he had all
told L041 men In his service. On January
l this year there were on the nav rolls
Of the present KruDp the names Of 4. 80
men. OF whom 25.I33 were employed at the
works at Essen. and the rest were scat
tered among his various manufacturing
and mining snterprfSes
Such an Establishment as this affords
some very interesting statistics In 1885
there were in the cast-steel works at Es-
sen over } 900 implements and machines.
besides 45s steam engines with a total Of
55-5ul HORSEPOWER The Iengths Of the
betting used in transmitting this power
was over 20 miles. The u Krupp blast
furnaces on the Rhine consumed daily
200 tons Of iron ore and produced / 200
tons Of pigiron- In the statistical wear
1855 over I,oO5, coo tons Of coal and-coke
were consumed, or 3. $50 tons a day. OF
which $500 tons dag were the product
Of krupps own coal mines The con-
sumption Of water in the establishment at
Essen is equal to that Of Dresden. with
its $1,000 inha bitants 1t consumes as
much illuminating gas as the city of
Breslau, which is a little larger than
Dresden. Fifty miles of railroad track
on the premises and connecting with the
railroads outside. 36 locomotives and 1900
freight cars are a part of the plant
There are 81 telephones in the estab-
iishment. with about 50 miles Of wire
Germany is the third greatest iron ccun-
Try in the world and yet a twentieth of
its entire output Of iron ore comes from
the kTupp mines and is manufactured in
the kruPp works. KTupp also buys from
an eighth To 4 tenth Of all the iron ore
and piglTOn imported into Germany from
foreign lands. and this gigantic enterprise I
is the largest producer in the German
Empire The freight bills Krupp pays to
the PTUssian railroads make those of any
other patron appear insignificant, and the /
man who is doing all this today~iS the /
son Of the man who melted his silver !
plate to ct money TO pay his wOrkmen.
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