Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-05
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Owing to processes developed by
demands of war and rapid improve
ment in chemical engineering meth
DDS there is possibility that the
Lower Susquehanna, the Juniata
and the Cumberland valleys may re-
gain in part their prestige as iron
producing regions. Use of Superior
and Cuban ores has become so gen.
eral hereabouts that scarcely any
of the brown hematite ores are en-
ployed in the furnaces that glow
along the Susquehanna and Leba-
non uses its own ores. There was
time. commencing about 100 years
ago when Cumberland, Dauphin,
Adams, Franklin, Perry, Lebanon
and other counties in this section
were the premier iron producing
region of the State and of the coun-
try for a short time. Many mining
enterprises developed all along the
Blue Ridge and there were deposits
worked which attained a notable
reputation. Some of them were al
most in sight of Harrisburg and
when it is stated that there were
furnaces at Dauphin, Union De-
posit, Middletown, Boiling Springs,
Carlisle, Duncannon, Montebello and
and other places which have no iron
works or very little to speak of
now, the extent and importance of
these local ore banks can be under
stood Lately some experiments
have been made with brown hema-
tite to get rid of certain substances
they contain and which led to the
richer Superior ores supplanting
/ them. Whether they can be market
ed again in competition with the
ores from the lakes and Cuba is
| intarnStinor nn0nla II
| cess is devised that is not too costly
there may be a revival of iron ore
mining in this region which is close
| to the source of fluX and on the steel
highways to the coal fields
Announcement a few days ago of
| the resignation of Robert Percy
| Stewart, United States District At
| torney for South Dakota, interested
quite few people here, but this
| feeling has been changed to one of
| qualification by the official statement
| from Washington that the former
Harrisburger has been appointed an
Assistant Attorney General of the
United States. Mr.. Stewart who has
resided at Deadwood, where he rose
rapidly in his profession. is a Har-
risburger. He is the eldest son of
the late James A. Stewart, a Penn
I
known here and who resided on
Chestnut street. His mother resides
with him in South Dakota. Mr..
Stewart will remove to Washington.
One of the Deadwood papers has
this to say about the new Assistant
Attorney General: This promotion
will come as no surprise to the many
friends of Mr.. Stewart who have
long recognized his ability as an At
torney. Born near Harrisburg, Pa,
therefore a native of the same State
as Attorney General Palmer, Stewart
went to Deadwood as a young man,
: about IS years ago and commenced
the practice of law. He studied under
some of the ablest members of the
old Lawrence county bar noted for
it's legal brilliance and when elected
States Attorney established a new
record by winning every criminal
case before him during his incum-
bency. He has been serving as
United States District Attorney for
South Dakota for the past five years
with distinction"
The White Book issued last week
by the German Government has
some very interesting disclosures in
it, not the least OF which is the fact
wherever an attempt was made to
delay the armistice, the troops rose
in protest and all differences between
Berlin and the supreme army COM
mand were dropped. One of the
men recently returned confirms this
statement. When November IL came
along it found this Harrisburger sit
ting opposite the German trenches
on the Meuse. About twenty-four
hours after firing and ceased this
= soldier and his captain rode across
r the German front line and back to
+ a little town which they had been
shelling some days before. Here
f they encountered a group of Ger
S man officers who insisted that the
8 Americans have glass of schnapps
2 with them. The boches spoke ex-
D cellent English and told the Ameri
, cans many interesting things. In
their own particular company, they
, said, there would have been a revolu-
> tion if the armistice had not come
{ when it did. All the men were dis
. satisfied and ready to quit and were
: just about resolved to take over the
/, military reign themselves There
p was great rejoicing and merry MAX
: ing when the firing ceased.
, There is a good bit of a change
! between the night appearance of
! Harrisburg and Steelton now as COM
% pared with year ago. Then every
;, thing was glowing and the iron and
steel establishments could be picked
out by the flares and smoke. Now
an occasional burst of light from
a furnace is all that tells where the
iron works are located. The change
is greatest at Steelton and Lochiel.