Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-27

advisers and directors of the establish
ment.
/ shall not attempt 10 describe the
blast furnaces, the rolling mills and the
fouudrios. They are just like those OF
Pittsburs. Cleveland. Chicago and other
steel-maling cities. They have the fin
est machinery. and they throw their old
machines on the scrap heap when they
become worn out or antedated. For in
stance, at the start a costly Bessemer
plant was put in, and most of the
smelling was done by that process.
Then it was discovered that there was
too much sulphur On tho coal to get
good results and Sicmcns- Martin fur
naces nave been installed.
Che etoel-BeN produced is said 20 Doc
among the best Of the world. / saw
many tests which proved its excellence.
These tests were performed with cold
steel ono was on the little iron fish
plates which fasten the steel rails to-
gethcr as they lic on the tics These
plates la-iuch thick inches wide and
! foot or more long. They were put in
a machine by which they were doubled
mp as though they were India rubber.
and that without the sign OF a crack.
This was done with the cold iron. 1
saw cold railroad spikes twisted around
and around until they looked like ropes.
and sections Of cold steel rails Weighing
80 pounds to the yard twisted into gi-
gantic corkscrews, without crack or
break anywhere showing. 7 stood upon
a piece of one of these rails about five
feet long beside myself and Chinese
workman. and had Mr. Rupert snap
my camera 20 show how it looks. A
rail which can stand that Kind of a
test could not possibly break with the
cold It is as tough as wrought iron
and can be bent mp Ike rope without
cracking.
IRON RAILS FOR CHINESE TRUNK
LINES.
As We went through the works / saw
great piles OF steel rails. Weighing IS
pounds TO the yard. which are now
making for the Canton Hankow road.
They are being turned out al the rate
of several hundred per day. Mr.. Rup-
pert tells me that the most OF the rails
for the Chinese roads of the future viii
Doc made az Han Yang The government
is granting am It's new concessions. with
tho proyiso that the rails must be- pun
chased of this Chinese factory. unless
the bids Of foreign firms are at least o
per cent cheaper the quality being the
sarc. Tho Han Yang steel works has
furnished AN tho iron for the Iankow-
Pekin trunk line. which Is over $50 miles
long II supplied the rails for The rail-
way from Ranking 20 Shanghai and
II is under contract 90 furnish those for
tho road now building from kowloon.
tho port opposite Hongkong. Co Canton
There is n1 doubt but that the Chinese
can make their own railroad materials
and Mr. Rupert tells mo that they are
now making steel rails aud am sorts of
structural steel al proht.
CHINESE IRON FOR THE UNITED
STATES
During ms uaIk through thc rolling
mill asked NJ RUPERT whether o.
ever expected Co export stool 10 tha
American market He replied
Most certainly not Al least nee
during tue present generation. We
have already shipped cons ierahle p.s
iron 90 San francisco ana 10 Japan.
ana ua have sent one shipment 90 Sew
YORK by thc sucz canal and sold h just
to show thot we could do so and make
money As lor the present and for
years to come. We can do better hy
supplyne the Chinese demand We
hove now in hand enough orders 90
keep us busy until the end of 1910, aud
uo are receiving more every day. ln-
deed it win be- long time before Chi-
ma can keep pace with her own
needs In such materials. We are build
mg new furnaces al rapidly as we
can. and are already increaslng our
capacity We have a scheme ~ es-
pansicn which win keep us husy for
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