The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-04
REVOLUTION in
IRON PREDICTED R I.
Discovery Of Much Ore in Cuba
May Change the Map
Somewhat.
lit MUST MOVE SOUTHWARK
Iron and Steel Furnaces Will
Finally Come to the Great
South.
it MUST MOVE SOUTHWARK
Ispecia, 10 Tho Times .Dlspatch.l

BALTIMORE. ND, August 3.-Com-
menting upon the discovery in Cuba
OF o. bed OF 100000, 900 tons of high;
grade iron ore, and it's ownership by
the Pennsylvania Steel Company, OF
which tho Maryland Steel Company, OF
Sparrows Point, Md. Is q subsidiary
organization, the Manufacturers Rec
ord, in this weeks Issue. says:
LIT was but a few weeks ago when
the Manufacturers Record published an
Important article by Professor John
J. Porter, assistant professor Of metal-
lurgy at the University of Cincinnati,
In which he took the ground that there
would be three great iron and steel
centres in America. One Of these CEN
trail points he4fixed as the Lake re-
gion. dependent upon the Lake ores;
another would be Alabama, which he
estimated to have a very much larger
quantity of available ore than Is known
| In the Lake Superior district, and by
| the side OF its ore vast cok!ng coal
| fields. while the third great central
point, in his opinion, would be on the
Atlantic seaboard, at some point on.
the Chesapeake Bay, where the cooking.
coal OF Virginia and West Virginia
could advantageously meet foreign
1 ores.
Fulfilled Prophecy.
1
| tain the fulfilment, in part at least, of
! his prophecy by guaranteeing that
(, there will be q great increase in the
4 iron and steelmaking interests at
! Sparrows Point, which Is in the upper
4 part Of the Chesapeake Bay, a few
miles from Baltimore. Whether this
4 new supply OF ore will be available
4 for the general market and thus help
to give the basis for further fulfil
i ment OF his prophecy by the estab-
I. lishment of other iron companies de-
! pendent on It, remains to be seen.
/. Easy to BE Reached.
"Wlth such a vast body of ore. which
4 can be mined by steam shovels at SO
trifiing cost the Pennsylvania and
!, the Maryland steel companies are I'M
!, mediatelys given a position In the
netallurgical world of pre-eminent I'M
pc'rtanceW{It may be accepted as q
/. fact that the ownership of such body
II oa ore will necessarily be followed ir
, the not distant future by a very large
!, increase In the plant of the company
4 lat Sparrows Point, and possibly also
: In the Steelton plant. The natural sup
: position, however, would be that Will
: such an admirable location as the com
pany now has at Sparrows Point, !
:. Will there concentrate the great In
. crease which 1t must of necessity maxi
:, III ltS ! W HaSc civ slCcl - al ShPoNt'S
u AT Sparrows Point there are now fou
2 large furnaces, a steel rail mill and {
y ship-yard, employing In the aggregate
: some thousands of hands. With thi
p supply of ore, sufficient for the utinos
needs of the company for many year
to come. 1t has the Foundation to JUST
fY stupendous enlargement Of 1t
Sparrows Point works, and It Is quit
: within the range of possibility tina
7, l within the next year or two humble
Of large furnaces Will be built as a
addition to the present plant,
I The Facts and Figures,
Seven years ago, or in 1900 til
7 total production Of pg-lron in til
4 United States was 19,7so,2A2 tons. lro
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