The Iron Age 1882-04-13: Vol 29 Iss 15

se s& 7” dle. | 4 ortise. zed. EWS. The Iron Age A Review of the Hardware, Iron and Metal Trades. Published every Thursday Morning by Davip Wutiams, No. 83 Reade Street, New York. Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. Vol. XXIX : No. 15. Megy’s Hydraulic Motor. working fluid is admitted and rejected | water forces the piston forward, and at the | The curve a, b, c, d is obtained by taking as H is vertical, and the valve is so placed as eo h the ports K and L; the proper dis-|end of its stroke the several points of the | abscisse and as equal portions of time the to close both ports at the same time. Dur- Among the many motors which have, up | tribution of the fluid is effected by means of | cylinder as well as of the piston-rod have relative distances of the piston from the bot-| ing the first period of rotation, the crank to the present time, been brought to public | cylindrical valves, M, which are mounted on | described a semicircle around a common tom of the cylinder, the ordinates, on the | being at the point s, the lever H takes the notice, and which have all claimed special | horizontal shafts, the axes of which coin-|axis. The levers above mentioned are thus other hand, being proportional to the sepa- | direction I—s, and the valve itself occupies a advantages and desirable features, Mégy’s| cide with the centers of curvature of the | actuated in such ‘a way as to effecta proper rate lengths of opening of the ports. A close! position at right angles to this direction hydraulic motor, of which we here present | convex sides of the valves. From Figs. 5 | distribution, and the water, after having examination of this diagram will reveal the | The forward part then serves as an exhaust engravings, undoubtedly occupies a promi- | and 6, which give some of the minor details | performed its work, is forced through the ratios existing between the varying volumes | passage, while the other admits the water nent position. This new engine, which is of ' of the distribution valve, it will be seen that ‘exhaust port, and passes off through a suit-' of cylinder produced by the advance of the! into the cylinder. During the second period ee $4'50 a Year, Including Portage Single Copies, Ten Cents. New York, Thursday, April 13, 1882. a. as, * SS a od > BW \\ WK CL SS y RN WSS Wn NS rr ON BES . ec VW GB SAG . MAK KK CCE>EMAA|A_\| |\MAGAG ‘ Fig. 3. Fig. 2. eh ie TTT WS ‘? = a t : SS : _ —= ri Hh} wT i aS \y TT. fe OT “A NTT oT cle oc, amd imi a ee a0 Was ae Nt 2 Tag tthe | Ce Be) ee OE ee ee — —_ | | Te did ty I emi ——, | “J 1 Li | 5 it il a Nt | | l Ah i aif aNy 4§ — Fig. 1. MEGY's HIGH-PRESSURE HYDRAULIC REVERSING ENGINE. the oscilla: t with valves, and|the cylindrical lever H is attached to the jable channel. The ports a anda’ serve both | piston and the different amounts of the }the crank-pin describes the arc 5—12, the which mo = ae well under pressures | shaft 6, which works in bronze ings, |as admission and exhaust ports, according | opening of the ports, showing also that the | piston leaves ee position occupied d the varying from that produced by ahead of| and to the part § J, the verticlil branch | to the ition of the valve. In order to | speed with which the water enters the cylin- | first perio’ - oaeres at the end of its water of 6 feet to that produced by higher | of which is fastened to the foundation by | more clearly explain the working of the | der varies by almost imperceptible degrees, stroke ; the lever H assumes a vertical posi- falls, and which also gives satisfaction at| means of suitable bolts, while the horizontal | engine we have added a yam of the dis- | and that the contraction or throttling of the | tion, and the valve arrives at the point 12. speeds varying from but a few revolutions | portion S is provided with a ball joint, clearly | tri ting motion (Fig. 4). The circle whose | flow is inappreciable. The diagram of the | During the third poston the piston returns to ber minute to about’300 per minute, rests on| shown in our engravings. @ working |center is peated by 0, represents the | distributing movement has reference to the | fhe posttien which it occupied during the first & cast-iron bed-plate, supporting the trun-| fluid arrives in the valve chest by means of | path of the crank-pin, and the points num- | three positions of the valves and opening of period, and the lever H takes the direction ions of the cylinders an ee beiiinns of | the pou. K, and enters the cylinder by |bered from 1 to 24 correspond to the /|the orifices when the crank is at the points |1—19. The forward port begins to open, the shaft. The piston-rods are attached to| either of ports a and a’, acco: to the |twenty-four equidistant positions which |24,5,12and19. When the piston is at the | allowing the water to enter, while the other water-tight pistons shown in Fig. 2, and the! position of the valve. The pressure of the! it occupies during a complete revolution. ‘the point a, and the crank at 24, the lever (Continued on page 5). ~~ ® "i HOS] er y wn ee e cs AV Se ¥ CEP... Per, ee bk a is _- ~~ a oo ees eo THE LRON AGE. _ Metals. fe FActals. - Petals. eetire, ere. A Ni ha oO fe 4 A The Piume & Atwood PHILIP L! MOEN, President and Treasure BRASS & COPPER CO., No. 19 Oliff Str cet, Mfc. Company, MANUFACTURERS OF SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, German Silver and Gilding Metal, Copper Rivets and Burs, Copper Electrical Wire, Pins, Brass Butt Hinges, Jack Chain, Kerosene Burners, Lamp Trimmings, &c. 18 Murray Street, New York. 13 Federal Street, Boston. 109 Lake Street, Chicago. Factories, _ qnomaston, ct. |warmesury, c.f, LEON and STH, WIRE, Eistablished 1831 Phelps Building, NEW YORK. * a MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS AND COPPER Waterbury Brass C0. Sheets, Bolts, Rods, Wire, &c. oo ae i Beee com, eT ae GERMAN SILVER, Tubing. Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire, Ansonia Corrugated Stove Platforms. BRASS AND COPPER TUBING, PURE COPPER WIRE COPPER RIVETS & BURS, For Electrical Purposes, Bare and Covered. BRASS KETTLES, Phosphor Bronze Rods for Pumps, &c. Door Rail, Brass Tags, N CAPS. ANSONIA yr REFINED PERCUSSIO . POWDER FLASES. INCOT COPPER. Metallic Eyelets, Shot Pouches, Tape Measures, he. WORCESTE wa MASS. ROUT vureene cmc 2 aia Geen Ween of cvany Desetal Patent Steel Barb Fencing, Patent Steel Wire Bale Ties. tri Metal in Sheets or Shells a Speclalty. WIRE RODS of all G Round Iron, Rivet 2-16 Meo length, PHELPS, DODGE & CO. Solo Agents for the Brid enort Brass Co. Sra ate ion ea Pere a. helen roduaing Tren dnd Steet Wittt‘n Capewell Mfg. Co.’s Line of Sport- J | Annetied Fence and'Grape Wire in long lengthe: Co Gov ects 8 ire Rope, brlage, ase w, Rivet, Buckis IMPORTERS OF ing Goods MANUFACTURERS OF Wire and Tinned-piated Wire of ai Seciaity is tade ‘eel & a Machin vine Coverag Wi ° Spiral Spring Wire, and Refined Wire to Pattern fo or pace purposes, a stamps of Norwa * Ti N PLATE, DEPOTS: mus at |Sheéet and Roll Brass, Biraigutened At pe ee RA Coppered, Gal or Tin Plated. Wire furnished, ING PLATE, | 296 Broadway, New York, WATERBURY, B &C Wire & Tubin Wire. Bicol Wire for Springs: Needles asd Balin” Me “ies Steel rida eae kept ania | Purivaled Steel Music ROOF 125 Eddy St., Providence, R. |. Conn. rass opper £)| WAREHOUSE, 21;Cliff Street, New York. bacaae 5 Wanehouns 107 Lene ae 2d St. Sheet Iron, Copper, Pig Tin Wire, EIOWARD co MORSE, Warehouse, 45 Fulton Street, New York, MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS COPPER AND IRON WIRE oe German Silver Metal and Wire, Zine, &c. OILERS and CUSPADORES, | LAMPS and TRIMMINGS, C 0 P P t R A N D B R AS S. Rolling Mills, LANTERNS and TRIMMINGS, | KEROSENE BURNERS, CLIFF STREET, NEW YORE. BRAZIERS’ AND SHEATHING COPPER, _Tarticular sttenton pel to rutting out Blanks and GERMAN OR NICKEL SILVER, Bridgeport, Conn. 19 Murray St., N. ¥. BR ASS Copper Wire for Electrical and other — THOS, W. FITCH, Prost. and Treas A. A. LASAP, Secy, 9 CERMAN SILVER. Copper Rivets and Suet —_—o Ve eee COPPER BOTTOMS FOR TEA KETTLES AND BOILERS, assieieobobina 90 Detroit Copper & Brass) Copper and Iron Rivets Clocks & Fly Fan Movements, ) PLUMBERS’ MATERIALS. SCOVILL MFC CO ROLLED, SHEET & PLATERS BRASS | scrscroxs, brani PHOTOGRAPHIO GOODS. Cor. Larned & Fourth Sts., Detroit, Mich. Saw . NEW YORK AGENCY: “ Bs UNION HARDWARE CO.,, BUTTO 9 87 Chambers and 68 Reade Sts. _ ; A a. AND METAL. Big ‘0. 4 Mesh, No. 14 Wire. 0. 8 Mesh, No. 18 Wire. “om ROME IRON WORKS, (333 WE ee 2) | eee 00S reer DEPOTS, - FACTORIES, ' Aree App tod Broome St., N, Y. Waterbury, Conn. Mamufacturersof i klk SO ll) Olle wend : ; lew Hoven, Conn. 7 al ead BN ea a New York Cty. | Brass, Gilding Metal, Cop- hg Sea ieereen inom r and German Silver DICKERSON, | MAN DUSEN & C0., me ee Tin Plate, Pig Tin, Tin, Sheet iron, Cooper,| COPPER & BRASS RIVETS Wire, Zinc, Etc. AND BURS. 29 & 81 oug St., eor. Fulton, | Rome, New Work. DICKERSON & CO., Liverpool. NEW YORK. A. C. NORTHROP, Waterbury, Conn., NOVELTIES IN BRASS AND OTHER METAL GOODS FOR HARDWARB TRADE. roug! Brass Screws; Turn ne on, Round and Square Head Cap and Set Serews at ee ond Iron gafety ana Jack Chain; @ el Plated and Brovze Trimmings of all kinds. from Sheet Iron. Sr articles, or any description of Sheet Metal work, respectfully solicited and oh oe ed es sesneer er ee ee re ye esnseeueeseweecaeve@ee No. 14 Mesh, No. a Wire. ABRAM 8, HEWITT, President. JAMES HALL, Treasurer. WM. HEWITT,,Vice;President. E. HANSON, Secretary. TRENTON IRON COMPANY, * TRENTON N.J.. Mi J. Man. facturers of cd STEEL WIRE No. 18 Mesh, No. 25 Wire. sT. LOUIS, MO. Holmes, Booth & Haydens, WATERBURY, CONN. NEW YORK, BOSTON, 49 Chambers St. 18 Federal St. Manufacturers of a)l kinds of Brass, Copper & German Silver, BROLLED AND IN SHEETS. BRASS & COPPER WIRE, Tubing, Copper Rivets & Burs. BRASS & IRON [IRON an OF ALL GRADES, BRIGHT, ANNEALED, COPPERED, TINNED AND GALVANIZED. Iron and Steel Wire Rods; oe OEBLINC’S JACK CHAIN, DOOR RAIL. EXTRA QUALITIES OF BAR IRON AND RODS. = . 5 exoepcpceg NOW York Office German Silver Spoons, Best Qualities of Gun-Screw and Charcoal Iron Wire; ila . | iia SILVER PLATED FORKS & SPOONS, Crucible, Siemens-Martin and Bessemer Steel Wire. - ” Kerosene Burners, &c. Wire Straightened and Cut to Lengths, N. J. 117 Liberty Street.| JOH N DAVOL & SONS, Kew York Oftoe, O COOPER HEWITT & CO.. :7 Buri Slip. Brooklyn Brass & Copper Co., Dealers in THE JOHN A. ROEBLING'S SONS CO, WIRE RO PE GALVANIZED Iron, Steel and Copper, | Telegraph Wire, Hoisting Purposes ot alt! Market Wire, kinds, for Ferries, Stays, Ship Rigging, Sash Cords, ire. néghtatng Rods, &c., &e. Vineyard Wire Buckle Wire, Spring Wire, Suspension Bridge Cables. Rivet Wire, &c., &c. GALVANIZED WIRE CLOTHES LINES. BRODERICK & BASCOM, MANUFACTURERS OF IRON AND STEEL WIRE ROPE For Hoisting, Running & Standing Ropes, Ferries, &c. CONSTANTLY KEPT ON HAND. Address: HAZARD MFG. CO., Wilkesbarre, Luzerne Co., Pa. FELTEN & GUILLEAUME, Carlswerk, near Colegne, Germany. PATENT CRUCIBLE STEEL WIRE, For Mining and Plow Ropes, Hawsers and Bridge Cables. SIEMENS-MARTIN AND BESSEMER STEEL WIRE, Flusseisen, Swedish and German Charcoal GALVANIZED TELEGRAPH WIRE of Charcoal and Swedish Iron and Steel, also with high conductivity, and in long lengths. GALVANIZED STEEL WIRE, For Plain, Barb and Strand Fencing, 3, 4 and rply | Guand, Staples, &c. Annealed a Olled Fencing ‘Wire, d and o WIRE ROFE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. TELEGRAPH CABLES. ntractors to the German and F orelgn ents. The oldest house in the braneh en the Con ion Telegraph Address, CA LW ER! ERK, COLOGNE, General Agents for U. 8. and Canada, i | PERKINS & CHOATE, 23 Nassau St, N. Y. Bright; Oopperal: Annealed and Tin Plated. Also GUN SCREW WIRE of Pall sizes straightened and cut to order. Ingot Copper, Spelter, Lead, Tin, Antimony, Solder & Old Metals. 100 John Street, New York. PASSAIC ZINC CO. Manufacturers of Pure Spelter FOR Cartridge Brass, Gas Fixtures, Bronzes AND ALL FINE WORK. Also for Galvanizers & Brass Founders. MANNING & SQUIER, Gen’ | Agents, 113 Liberty Street, N. Geo. -W. Prentiss & Co. YOKE, MASS., Pee or Iron and Steel WIRE Market Wire, Fence Wire, Bridge Wire, Chain Wire, _ 728 N. Main St., St. Louis, Mo. ons ~ ————— _ — _— $$$ WORCESTER WIRE co. 1 Manufacturers of IRON AND STEEL WIRE For all Purposes. WORCESTEP, MASS, A. LESCHEN c& SOn, Manufacturers of a aE oeae ; BROWNING, SISUM & CO., 85 Chambers St., Maputacture As S : Belt Hooks, Cetters, Spring Keys, D Rings, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. ‘ Staples, and operzaains pertaining yo wire bending. "939 to 923 N. Main St., SE. LOUIS, MO, Correspondence invited April 18, 18a, WASHBURN & MOEN MANUEACTURING CO, Ber MIN] lLebigh V LE BERG ang rior BE " EA. F MEDI 82, if April 18, 1882. CARY & NOEBN, Manufacturers of STEEL WIRE fer all burposes 0. LINDEMANN & C0., Manufacturers of all 6 kinds of = Japanned, Brass & : Tin Plated BIRD CAGES. ’ Catalogues furnished to the trade. 254 Pearl St., NEW YORK. WUD ILE LLECELELC LED DE UA DEAE ESELA LAE Market Steel Wire. Crinoiine Wire, temperca and covered. A'so Patent Tempered Steel Furniture Springs, constantly on hand. 234, 236 and 238 West 29th Street, UISTING MACHINERY, Sent Free on Application. LIGHT 40 Page Illustrated Catalogue Just Issued. Pret gg YALE..LQCK MPG. CO., | ours ders. 53 Chambers Street. “a wag «bird gg Penccbihen, at STAMEORD, CONN. POPE,COLE & Co. BALTIMORE COPPER WORKS, No. 57 South Gay St., BALTIMORE, MD., Have always on hand and for sale INGOT COPPER, Also Cakes, of unequaled purity and toughness. G. Gunther, Manufacturer of Patented Brass, Siiver Plated ALL Tria and Japanned UIT, BIRD CAGES. fons per annum. eet typographical error. pacity is 3000 tons. 64 Lake Street. A recent issue of this paper Stated that the capacity of the FINISHED PLOW SHOP of the GAUTIER STEEL DEPART- MENT of CAMBRIA IRON CO., at Johnstown, Pa., was 6000 lt was a Its ca- Can be nested for ex- port shipments. 46 Park Place, NEW YORK. y in patterns and unsurpassed in low New Lilustrated Catalogues and Price Lists on application. FOUNDRYMEN’S METALLIC Pattern Letters and Figures, To put on patterns of castings. All sizes. Re duced prices, Mofd. by 4. W. Knight Seneca Falls, N.Y. a ee ee 3+) af vs THOMPSON’S PATENT FOR Wet Pulverization of Rocks, Ores, Rolling Mill Fix AND OTHER MATERIAL, EITHER COARSE OR TO AN IMPALPABLE POWDER, STEPHEN P. M. TASKER, SOLE MANUFACTURER, Care of MORRIS, TASKER & CO,, Limited, PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. Centrifugal force applied to a rolling ball for the purpose of pulverizing. ‘ested thoroughly and guaranteed to yield a greater product ef pulverized material of equal fineness ia a given time with less wear, less power, less first cost and less cost for repairs than stamps er any other pulverizer. Bergen Port Spelter. WORKS & FURNACES, Bergen Port, N. J. The only Miners and Manufacturers of PURE J. 4. EMERIOK. HOWARD EVANS. A ea FOUNDRY FACING, , __ MINES : e ; lebigh Valley, Pa. LEHICH oe SPELTER From Lehigh Ore. MOLDING SAND, encivg Especially adapted for FOUNDRY SUPPLIES, Cartridge Metal and German Silver. S 2 J.A. EMERICK & CO., Also manufacturers of ‘ 1056 to 1076 Beach St., PHILADELPHIA. BERGEN PORT OXIDE ZINC. ation for Liguip Pamrr on account of its body BER Ef ORT ZINC CO. ’ igiltg. © Con ry FISHER, Keowt, 13 Burling Slip, N. ¥. BROWN’S ADJUSTABLE PIPE TONGS. y EN FOmeeAnney Geen OA Made from t St, BPMEDEORD FANCY GOODS CO.,) best 20- i lected WT a re aia chat ee " rs | lron, A ee y~ Va Adress "“FPRe Ashcroft Mre. Co., 111 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK. rivets og Col a vee CRUSHER CO, Chalienge Rock Breakers. ock Patented Nov. 18, 2879, AND BELL, Sco The I lety in the world. Send for lilustrated New Haven Conn, ron Age first issue of the a ogue. she l * ‘argest month. and STEEL SPRINCS of every description. NEW YORK. THE IRON AGHE. METALLURGICAL NOTES. BIG HILL IRON ORES. made an analysis of a sample of ore from below for comparison with those obtained at a later date : PN cewia- cadvune ciumaperstes 56.67 SE Was vixccces 3.91 CRG Ty Luss ss hIbK2 69464000 00d 4 Kkd cece 0.03 UTILIZATION OF PYRITES RESIDUUM. Mr. Clement Martin, of Belgium, proposes roasting of pyrites may be successfully utilized. When the residuum of the pyrite- cent. of sulphur it should be roasted again, in presence or not of oxidizing or desulphur- izing agents, to deprive it of its sulphur. The residuum of the pyrite-roasting fur- naces containing less than 1 per cent. of sul- phur is reduced to powder ; it is then placed upon sheet-iron plates perforated with holes of about 1-25th inch in diameter, and is washed in atrunk or vessel, mounted upon fixed or shaking tables, so as to concentrate it, or it may be simply washed or cleansed in its earthy parts and of those which are solu- ble in water. The residuum or ore thus pre- pared is then mixed with coal or suitable carbonaceous matter, in proportions varying according to the quantity of iron it contains, and the degree to which it is carbonized. To the mixture of ore and coal is then added very unctuous clay and lime, or any other like material capable of forming a very fusible flax, in propertions varying according to the physical state and the chemical nature of the ore. The mixture or mass thus ob- tained is moistened with water, rendered al- kaline or acid as required, and then is con- verted into blocks or cakes by being sub- jected to powerful hydraulic or other pres- sure in cylindrical or other molds. The said blocks or cakes having been dried are intro- duced mto a furnace, in which they are for a suitable time exposed to the influence of heat and a reducing atmosphere. The iron contained in the blocks or cakes under the influence of the elevated temperature in the calcinating and reducing furnace is reduced, a portion of the lime combines with the sul- phur and phosphorus, while part of the unctuous clay agglutinates and greatly hardens the mass and increases its density, and parts of the same are scorified with the e and lime, forming with them a most fasitle slag, which is removed to the melting farnace in which the next operation is ef- fected. This is carried on in a melting fur- nace (or other suitable apparatus) heated by ordinary fuel. The furnace is heated to a bright red heat, and the blocks previously alluded to are introduced into a bath of melted in the concave sole of the fur- nace, in which bath they sink by their own weight. The high temperature reduces the iron, carbonizing it at the same time by means of the surplus coal which has not yet served for reduction ; gangue, together with the lime and clay, constituting part of the blocks introduced into the bath, forms a basic slag which entirely covers the melted meta! and preserves it from oxidation, and owing to the silica it contains, and also to its chemical properties, it becomes a powerful agent of de- sulphurization and dephogphorization. When all the chemical reactions here described have been effeeted the operation is termi- nated, and the slag having been removed from the furnace the steel is run into suit- able ingot molds for use as required. The processes and operations described are also applicable to the manufacture of steel from ordinary iron ores. MANUFACTURE OF SOFT STEEL. Experiments were recently conducted in England with a new cenverter, intended for the production of soft steel suitable for tin plate. The converter is of very simple con- struction, and eosts little in comparison with other steel-making appliances, its chief nov- elty consisting in the arrangement and con- struction of the tuyeres, coupled with the use of low-pressure blast. Blows were made with a maximum blast pressure of 44 pounds per square inch, each blow taking only an average of twenty minutes, the yields being exceptionally good and the steel produced of excellent quality, soft and ductile, suitable to take the place of any yet put into the market for merchant bars or tin plates. No spiegeleisen has been used, the only addition being a little over 1 per cent. of ferroman- ese. The dephosphorizing process may also be applied to this method. The con- verter can be worked by any ordinary blow- ing engine, and a 2-ton converter, working ten hours per day, will make 120 tons of soft steel per week, thus placing a steel- making plant in the hunds of small manu- facturers. The capacity of the converters can be increased up to any size, an important point, moreover, being that the converter may be worked with four or six tuyeres fixed horizontally. By a simple mechanical arrangement a stopper, or plug, in each tuyere is actuated by steam or air, vagelating the blast or shutting it off, to suit the vari- ation of the metal being blown. The cinder is run off from the latter through a slag hole while the blow is taking place, the impurities thus being discharged at an early stage and the time of operating reduced toa minimum. The statement that steel is gd for mee all te which iron itherto been pplied, see , seems to be verified by the superior quality of the products of this converter, which will, undoubtedly, soon find favor with plate makers. MALLEABLE WHITE BRONZE. A white metallio alley, in the manufaeture The Virginias for March gives the re- sults of an analysis of two samples of iron ores from the Big Hill iron mines, Botetourt | County, Va., and as these ores are from the | | great Upper Silurian James-Shenandoah &} iron belt, and are now so successfully worked by the Longdale Iron Co., in Alleghany County, we here present these analyses as of .| current interest : R No. 1 No, 2. RENEE. BOMB ou 6 canine cee os §5-28 44.08 le 4 heekes <os, Sue 23.65 Ahumina........ é Vevaveses cs. 2.17 BEM s cots ; Ssveve vevesces BOO 1.15 UNE ds 6) a. 4 wane env cbs ie 0.726 0.404 Some time since Mr. J. Blodget Britton the same source, and we give the results a method by which the large quantities of pyrites residuum annually produced by the roasting furnaces contains more than 1 per cases or tanks through which a stream of water is caused to flow, so as to deprive it of 3 of which no nickel is employed, has recently been introdueed in France. This malleable metal is produced by adding to copper a cer- tain proportion of ferromanganese of high standard, 40 parts of the former and 60 |parts of the latter being mixed together with a suitable quantity of flux. This mix- ture when perfectly melted is run into ingots, yielding a perfectly white and malleable metal. In order to obtain a laminable white metal in plates, the above product is again melted and mixed with about 20 to 25 per cent. of zinc and brass, after which it is laminated in the ordinary manner. Experi- ments have shown that armor plates can be successfully made with the metal obtained from the first melting, and a plate rolled to a thickness of 2 inches has been tried against a 2-inch plate of steel with entirely gratify- ing results, the steel plate being completely shattered, while the plate made of the alloy here mentioned was hardly dented. It would be superfluous to enumerate the many pur- poses to which this metal is applicable, and for which it will be undoubtedly used as soon as its merits are more generally known and appreciated. me Sulphur Mining in Sieily. The principal centers of the sulphur mining industry of Sicily are at the mines of Caltani- eetta, Castrogiovanni, Montedoro San Catal- do, Serradifalco, Sommatino, Valguanera, and Villarosa, in the province of Caltanisetta, besides a number of places in the province of Girgenti. The mining industry of Sicily is, in fact, entirely confined to the production of sulphur, which is met with at a great variety of depths below the surface of the land, the existing seams varying considerably in thick- ness. In rich localities the veins average about 614 to 27 feet in thickness, with sterile strata, from a few inches to 3 feet thick, intervening, while, in less productive por- tions of the country, the sulphur seams are separated by unproductive ot of much greater thickness. The mineral-bearing rock is detached by the use of a sharp-pointed pick-ax, weighing about fifteen pounds. The shafts of the mines resemble inclined planes running into the earth, with steep steps roughly cut in the rock forming almost invariably the only means of access to the works at the bottom of the mines. The de- tached material is excavated by men who carry heavy pieces of ore to the surface as it is broken yp by the miners, and deposit them in localities allotted to each pickman. The ore is here piled up in large heaps, prepara- tory to its being measured, to ascertain the quantity excavated by each man, The ** cassa ’ is the measure by which the quan- tity of sulphur ore dug in Sicilian mines is reckoned when paying the miners for their labor, but differs in dimensions in different mining districts of the island. The boys em- ployed in transporting the mineral carry from forty to sixty pounds weight, accord- ing to their ages, which range from ten to eighteen years, from pits often over 275 feet deep, making twenty to forty journeys a day. Water is frequently met with before reaching a seam of sulphur, and up to the present it has been one of the greatest ob- stacles in the way of mining engineering in Sicily, greatly increasing the cost of work- ing. The depth of 190 feet is rarely obtained without water oozing through imperceptible fissures in the rock, and this frequently stops all operations by submerging the works. To provide against this the old-fashioned hand pump was used, and this gradually giving way to steam power has redueed to a mini- mum the fear of mishaps occuring by flooding. Explosions are of comparatively rare occurrence in Sicilian mines, and small earthenware lamps, containing oil, the flame being left naked, are used with- out the slightest apprehension of accident. Safety lamps are, in fact, unknown in this country. When a quantity of ore has been excavated sufficient to form a ‘‘calearone,” this being a pile of ore with masonry built round it to prevent the escape of the liquid sulphur, the mass is ignited by placing burning straw, impreg- nated with sulphur, on the top of the a carone or kiln. The sulphur, once ignited, acts as its own fuel, and seven or eight days after the first sulphurous fumes are emitted, and when ample time has been allowed for a certain amount of the ore to melt, the masonry above mentioned is pierced, and the liquid sulphur, of a deep amber color, is permitted to run inte square wooden molds, the sulphur, on cooling, oming hard and assuming a bright yellow color. The fusion by this process, in which only a small quan- tity of ore is lost, may last from 30 to go days, according to the size of the kiln. There are seven qualities of sulphur known to the trade—first quality, best second, g second, current second, best third, good third and current third. The several quali- ties are not determined by test, but simpl by the purity of color; the brighter the yel- low the more free is the quality considered from extraneous matter. The total quantity annually smelted may be estimated at 390,- 000 tons, its value, when distributed at the shipping ports of Palermo, Catania, Sicuta, &c., being about $8,800,000. Pickmen are almost invariably paid according to the quan- tity of material excavated, a fair estimate, however, being from 30 to 50 cents per day of six or eight hours. ec — [he shipments of coke from the Connells- ville (Pa.) region in February were larger than in any previous month in the history of the coke business, aggregating about 21,000 cars. Of this amount 11,000 cars went west of Pittsburgh, in the neighbor- hood of 5500 cars going to points on the Fort Wayne road, and the balance about equally divided between the Panhandle, the Cleveland and Pittsburgh and the Lake Erie roads. About 10,000 cars were sent East via the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsyl- vania roads, and taken to furnaces in the neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The total production of zinc in Europe amounted to 203,330 tons in 1880, of which Germany produced 99,405 tons, or nearly half, two-thirds coming from the Upper Si- lesian districts. After Germany comes Belgium, with 65,010; then England, with 22,000 tons; France, 13,715, and Austro- Hungary, 3200 abe ES rhe» wv — ¥ ws Fee Fe aOR ey ad - ow Saetell ae — ae 2 ee as et Set eee) A ee eee ee et Se 37ers hm § * 2 vanes _——— — LR TPA eat nap THE L1RON AGE. April 13, 1889, Reon. Xrar, | avon. Kron. RON. NEW YORE. NEW YORK. NEW YORE. PITTSBURGH. PITTSBURGH. OXFORD IRON CO.,/W, D, WOOD & C08 (B. G. CLARKE, Receiver,) Cut Nails SPIKES. J. 8. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, NEW YORK. JOHN W. QUINCY & CO., OGDEN & WALLACE, A. B. Warner & Son, ee See IRON MERCHANTS, i ron an d Steel 28 & 29 West and 52 Washington ds Of every description kept in stock. Agents for Park Brother & 00.'s IRON & STEEL BOILER PLATE. BLACK DIAMOND STEEL. BOILER TUBES, ane Cast and Machinery Steel constantly Angle, Toe and Girder Iron, Boller and Tank Rivets. Sole Agents for the celebrated PIERSON & CO., LUKENS, PENNOCKS, ‘* WA WASSET,” ‘“ EUREKA.” 24 & 26 Broadway, 7/ & 79 New St. ,| Srandsof Iron. Aisoal: descriptions of Plate, Sheet, and Gasometer Iron. Special attention to Locomotive oa N% ROADSTER PATENT PATTERN, Planished Sheet Iron. Patented March 14th. 1865 ; April 8th, 1878 ; Sept, 9th, 1873; Uct, 6th, 1874; Jam. 11, 1876. STEEL TOE CALKS NEW YORK CITY. ps Fire Box on. Fire Box Iron a specialty. “PICKS” of all kinds, |ROME MERCHANT IRON MILLS,| 9% wiam strest, new xork. | @*eregens no wnat en cd runes ton : “ESOPUS” HORSE SHOE IRON) — sensnzt@™S:%cuseoe (Anthracite & Charcoal Pig Irons,| IMPORTED RUSSIA IRON, — | _ xtra Quality Homogeneous Stee Wrought Scrap, Out Nails, Copper, a 6 EAMS, AN C LES, Bar sar leer Bands see nes BLOCK 7m, 106 biel ANTIMONY, NICKEL, &c. valine BOIL r 4 p L ATE some a@ su orcs Tees, Channels, Sheets, Plates. oA Cron branded 3.0. Ail puddted, babs re ARPENTER, our Agent, at 59 John HARRISON&GILLOON | METAL DEALERS) greex prares, at description All descriptions in stock. to J. 0- DAR PEN 3 RON & ST E = L. — —— IRON AND METAL DEALERS, In the Large cities throughout eee 538, sfo, s62 WATER ST., & 302, 304, 306 CHERRY ST., Cut Nails and Spikes, Plate and Sheet ABEE . 6 ROTHER S, 4 yound ry Pip ache aon cnet: THE VIET BO STATES. lron, all descriptions, “a c ©, | RSS Fe WSS | m wat Soot, PTTSBURGM, Pa, SHOENBERGER & C0,, a= Cc. BANE, KEYSTONE ROLLING MILL, Limited. lron Merchants 2 190 South Street and 365 Water, N. Y. ° s Old T, DH, and Bridge ? IRON RAILS. ULSTERIRON ,oucnr scrar inon Horse-Shoe 50 TONS OLD. HAMMERED CAR AXLES. Horse-Shoe Iron, FOX & ‘DRUMMOND, Band, Heep and Scroll Iren. Marshall Lefferts & Co. 90 Beekman St., New York City, cae X OF BURDEN’S |HORSE SHOES. “Burden Best” lron OLD RAILS, SCRAP IRON, STEEL, Manufacturers of PIC IRON, BLOOMS, IRON AND ORE. PITTSBURGH, PA. Pittsburgh, - - - Pa, LEECH BURG IRON W ORK SS. KIRKPATRICEK on COoO., FINE; SHEET IRONS, (Refined Cold Rolled, Show Card, Stamping, Tea Tray, Polished, Shovel, NATURAL GAS USED AS. run. OFFICE, No, 143 First Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. WORKS, Leechburg, Pa ’ CHARLES HUBBARD, “Sheridan” & “ Leesport Bonnell, Botsford & Co., lron, Nails & Spikes, Pes, __ om Spring and Tire Steel, ete, A. R. WHITNEY & CO., Manufacturers ot and Dealers in =Best Bloom, Best Refined and Common. h and Fence ; Galvanized Galvanized Wire, Telegrep d Bana iron, anized Rod a 4 oop’ aa is hain, Galvanised Lroo Brands Pig Iron, WHITE IRON (Anthracite & Bessemer) Our specialty is in Manufacturing Iron Used in the Con- dtraction ye ene Buildings, Boos pee eel Chain, ages, &c. — vanized B | Ri Agente for Gernegio Bros. & Co., Limited, { , peave fron Co., Boiler Plats and ; poe. Nor CORRUGATED SHEET IRON Ol er ive S, Stock for making strong castings. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. he Iron : - Glasgow For Roofing, &c., Galvanized, Plain or Painted. *CHAKCOAL PIG IRON,” ’ Plates ."8| Best Charcoal, Best Refined and Common “Maiden Creek” and “Garrick” brands. Favorite brands of Scotch Pig Iron, The Burden Iron Company Tube Works, ‘ Hallas” Altoon | Oo."6 fet nd Bar, oda, SHEET IRON. Bare. and mlidiilt init eniintets Plate and Tank Iron, In stock and to arrive. tea” Books ooalaning cuts Fale | oe Es TE eee Rate y os Troy, N.Y. oLD ae ae BEST BRANDS. a ie taxon = street, waw week. Iron Work eaicastead teed to Order. ze ee ee ke o— CORRUGATED AND CRIMPED IRON BORDEN & LOVELL, |““~ ee U L S E R ROOFING & SIDING, MANN & JON ES, —'% JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO., BURDEN’S — Butidings, Roofe,| 4 Hanover St., New York, CommissionMerchants| — «272 2» smuicay 4B &S Barl tere gory, Commie, o, be ar ron. MOSELEY IRON BRIDGE AND ROOF CO., GENERAL IRON BROKERS 70 & 71 West St., i i Cc i R O N Also Best Grades of & Dey Street. Neer Vork. 5 American & English Refined | os And Commission Merchants. merican & English hetined ION.) y, 4, écLunD’s SONS & Co, ~a W. S. MIDDLETON, Yuck} = — New York. Agents for the sale of Fall River lron Co.’s Nails, Bands, Hoops & Rods. AND No. 69 Wall St., New York. All sizes and shapes in stock. ULSTER IRON WORKS, |EGLESTON BROS, & CO.,|° $66 South St | NEW YORK CITY. VOUGHT & WILLIAMS, Tuckerman, Mulligan&Co| ose « 288 Greenwich Street, CARMICHAEL & EMMENS NEW y Yeee, BAR IRON AND STEEL, er tata ye #7 7 West Lake St Unicago. Dl Tire, Spring, Toe Calk, MACHINERY AND TOOL STEEL. + 21, 23, 25 ae AND STEEL. BOILER PLATE. ALL BRANDS OF HORSE NAILS, Horse Shoes, Rasps and Files, on Broker in Machinery & Iron Agent for FORSTER’S CRUSHER & PULVERIZER, The best in market. Swedish & Norwa of every description. a pm Yoru and Philed elphia. way 2 GUSTAF LUNDBERG, ;8 Kilby st., Boston ALBERT POTTS, Philad — F elphia Agent, 234 & 236 N. MOSES GOLDSMITH & SON, CHARLESTON, 8. C. Wholesale dealers in METALS, IRON, RAGS, And all kinds of Paper Steck. We invite correspondence, JOHN E. SWAN & BROS., Ld, IRON MERCHANTS ILLINOIS ZINC CC C0. Glasgow and Middlesbrough, MANUFACTURERS OF Scotch & English Pig ron. |SHEET ZIN C, PERU, ILLINOIS. 90 Broadway, New York. w.s. MIDDLETON, 62 Jehn St., N. ¥. DESPARD BROTHERS, 60 Wall St., New York. P. O, Box 764. Importers of New and Old Rails, Steel Blooms, SCRAP IRON, &c. Duty paid or in bond. CALVIN van neh — Borden Mining Company’s Cumberland Coals. WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., IRON MERCHANTS Oor, Albany & Washington Sts. NEW YORK OITY. Wa. H Wallace DANIEL W. RICHARDS & CO,, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC SCRAP IRON, RAILS, STEEL AND METALS. Yards and Office, 88 to 96 Mangin St., NEW YORK. Danye, W. Ricwarps. Morrow B. Santa. > ES PASSAIC ROLLING MILL CO., Manufacture and have always in stock ROLLED IRON BEAMS, Channels, Angles, Tees, Merchant Bars, Riveted Work, Forg- ings, Eye Bars, &c. PATERSON, N..J. New York. Lap-Welded Boiler Tubes, &c, &c. Agent for Otis’ a brated Cast Stee] Boiler Plates The Coatesville Iron Ye. The Laurel Rolling Mills, rought lron Beams, Ww. Busraam | Angles, Tees, Ri Bello An Vises, Blowers, Upright fe ee Pe te Pinch B. F. JUDSON, Importer of and Dealer in SCOTCH AND AMERICAN Pig Iron, Wrought & Cast Scrap Iron, OLD METALS. $3 £252 Souch ses} = NEW YORK. <= Manhattan Rolling Mill. 0.1 to Amerion “" , 0, , British porte —— Old Iron Rails, Puddled Bars E. A. FISHER, - - - Agent AND MANUFACTURED IRON, Joun J. SPowers, President. THE JERSEY CITY y GALVANIZIN¢ G CO., CALVANIZED MATERIAL OF EVERY ,DESCRIPTION. GALVANIZING IN ALL ITS BRANC Galvanized Sheet Lron—Best Bloom, Best } aetna, vee, be cebeaninad , ee Square Band an p Iron, &c 13 ——ine oe ae New York, Room 45, Astor House, CUT NAILS, | s..eonaro, |... as 445 to 451 West St, 177 &179 Bank St] o¢ corrugation ‘ Hot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers, “We, NEW YORE, fa =“ HORSE SHOE IRON, **°** ot Sous. Corrugated Sheet Iron a Specialty, yaaivemion, Boe meek ane a Spieted. Tron Corrugated for the Trade. cation. WORKS ; GREEN AND BAY STREETS, JERSEY CITY, N. J. OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE : 98 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. MENDEN & SCHWERTE IRON AND STEEL WIRE WORKS, AT SCHWERTE, WESTPHALIA, GERMANY. AND IRON WIRE RODS Fhe lexgest Wire Works in the world. sonia on z2 trains, STEEL A ons down to No. 8 and 9, Stubs os olilec, FINE IRON, HOOP IRON, BAR IRON & ait Toe Calk Steel, Rods, Ovals, Half Ovals and Flats. DANIEL F. SOONEY iomamnes suceessor to H. Holdane a Ce.) Washingt = &. » N. BOILER : PLATES “a SHEET JROR, WELOED HOILER F Boiler sioote, Angle & T Iron, Cut Nails t "Spikes. Agency tor er. Iron a Co. 20 L. Bre? £Oo Oo., DOVER IRON CO.’ BOILER RIVETS, Boiler Brace Jaws, Socket Bolts, &c. =<ULLER BROTHERS & CO. 130 Greenwich Street, New York, SOLE AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: Fipe ara babe € Co.. Afbany & Rens. Iron & Steel Co.'s - celebrated Boller Rivets; Homogeneous Steel, Boller! WOLTMAN & MICKERTS, ST. LOUIS, MO. April 13, 1882. xron. PHILADELPHIA. HENRY LEVIS & CO., Manufacturers’ Agents Iron Steel Rails, Car Wheels, Bofler and — Shoet Iron and —_ Railway Old Rafla, Axles, and hee bought and sold. 234 8. ath St., eee Fron. PHILADELPHIA. Siemens’ Regenerative GAS FURNACE. RICHMOND & POTTS, 119 8. Fourth St.. PHILADELPHIA, PA. | The Cambria Iron and Steel Works, Having enjoyed for over TWENTY-FIVE YEARS the reputation of producing the best quality of RAIIUIS, have now an annual capacity of 230,000 Tons of Iron and Steel Rails, Splice Bars, d&c. ADDRESS, CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY, No, 218 South 4th Street, Philadelphia, Or at the Works, JOHNSTOWN, PA. Or LENOX SMITH, New York Selling Agent, 46 Pine &t., N. ¥. THE PHCENIX IRON CO., 410 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. Manufacturers of Wrought Iron Beams, Deck Beams, Channels, Angle & Tee Bars, STRAIGHT AND CURVED TO TEMPLATE, Largely used in the construction of Iron Vessels, Buildings and Bridges. WROUCHT IRON ROOF TRUSSES, CIRDERS & JOISTS, 4 all kinds of Iron Framing used in the construction of Fire Proof Buildings, PATENT WROUGHT IRON COLUMNS, WELDLESS EYE BARS, and batlt up shapes for Iron Bridges. REFINED BAR, SHAFTING, ana every variety of SHAPE IRON made to order. Plans and Specifications furnished. Address DAVID REEVES, President. NEW YORK AGENTS, MILLIKEN & SMITH, 95 Liberty Street. BOSTON AGENTS, FRED. A. HOUDLETTE & CO., 19 Batterymarch St. ALAN WOOD & CoO., MANUFACTURERS OF Patent Planished, Galvanized, Common, Best Refined, Cleaned and Charcoal Bloom PLATE cc SHEET IRON, No. 519 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. for Corrugated, Gasholder, Pan and Elbow, Water pipe, Smoke Stack, Iron Lest, SS Ferruie, Locomotive Headlight and Jacket Iron. JAS. ROWLAND & C0., Kensington Iron, Steel & Nail Works, 920 North Delaware Ave., - PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturers of the ANVIL BRAND REFINED MERCHANT BAR IRON. Nails, cut from Orders solicited ‘Tank and Boat Ml) === PENCOYD IRON =» PENCOYD IRON WORKS. ## = A. & P. ROBERTS & CO., Manufacturers of CAR ASLES. r : LF 1 BAR, ANGLE, TEE AND CHANNEL IRON. Office, No. 265 S. Fourth St., Philadelphia. Agente for the sale of Glamorgan Pig tron. (asia ipenana oe oe NADbicoenae xh bow QUAKER CITY FACING MILLS, Pier 45 North Delaware Avenue, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Iso, the James Rowland & Co. Kensington their Refined Anvil stock. wiso, Plow and Cultivator Steel; Skelp Iron a specialty; also Rounds, Squares, Flats, Bands and Hvop Iron. Please send for Speeial Price List of our celebrated Machinery Facings. Mineral Facing, X Facing, Stove Plate Facing, IXL Facing, XX Facing, Lead Facing, Charcoal Facing, Anthracite Facing, Bituminous Facing, Soapstone Facing, Lehigh Facing, Sea Coal Facing. MANUFACTURERS OF FOUNDRY SUPPLIES. Riddles, Shovels, Steel Wire Brushes, Bellows, Screens, Buckets, Bristle Brushes, Mallets, Sand Steel Wheelbarrows, Rammers. capacity insures prompt shipment of orders by telegram. Our J. Ww. PASSON co CO., DEALERS IN MOULDING SAND. ALLENTOWN ROLLING MILL COMPANY, Rails, Bars, Axles, Shafting, Fish E tel (Plain and Angle), Spikes, Rivets, Bolts and Nuts, &c. Bridges and Turn Tables. General Office, 237 South Third St., Philadelphia. Works at Allentown, Pa. 4AMES C, BOOTH. THOMAS H, GARRETT. ANDREW A. BLAIR, BOOTH, CARRETT & BLAIR, Analytical and Consulting Chemists, - 919 and 921 Chant St. (10th St. above Chestnut St.), PHILADELPHIA PA. Established in 1836. Analyses of Ores, Waters, Metajs and Alloys of all kinds. A special department for the ANALYSIS OF IRON AND SEREEL, fitted with all the a ratus and papmenves Use for the rapid and aceurate analysis of Iron Steel, Iron Ores, Slags, Vsnaestonee. Coals. Clays, Fure Sands &e, Agenis for sampling ores in New York and | Baltimore, Price lists on application. a. Edward J. Etting, IRON BROKER arp COMMISSION MERCHANT, 230 S. Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. Pig, Bar and Railroad tron. OLD RAILS, SCRAP, &£o. Agent for the MOUNT SAVAGE FIRE BRICK, The Allentown Iron Co. and The Coleraine Furnaces, STORAGE WHARF AND YARD DELAWARE AVENUE ABOVE CALLOWHILL STREET, connected by track with railroad. Cash advances made on Iron. J. Wesley Pullman, 407 Walnut S8t., Philadelphia, Exclusive SALES AGENT Chester Iron Co.’s Blue, Red and Hoft ORES. __ Also celebrated ** Brotherton ” | Ore. D. W.R. READ & CO., Importers and dealers in FOREICN & NATIVE BESSEMER ORES. PIC IRON ENCLISH FIRE BRICK. 205 % Walnut St., PHILADELPHIA. 142 Pearl St., 57 Gracechurch St, 67S. Gay St., NEW YORK. LONDON. BALTIMORE, J. J. MOHR, Sole Agent for Sheridan, Leesport, Ring- gold and Lynchburg, BESSEMER, FOUNDRY AND FORGE PIG IRON, Jefferson and Mt. Penn Cold Biast Car Wheel Charcoal Pig tron. 430 Walnut 8t.. PHILADELPHIA, PA, NORTH BROS.,|-— 23d and Race Sts., Philadelphia. Fine Light and Medium-Weight GRAY IRON CASTINGS to order. Correspondence solicited. Isaac V. Lioyp. Jas. G. Linpsay. LLOYD & LINDSAY, No, 328 Walnut St., PHILADELPHIA, Brokers aud General Dealers in lron and Steel, Railway Equipments and Supplies, Rar, Plate and Sheet Iron, Pig Iron, Rails and Fastenings, Mack Bars, Blooms, Boiler Tubes, Wrought [ron Pipe, &o. @ld Rails and Suae Iron, Florida Yellow Pine, cargo lots. J. O. RICHARDSON, IRON COMMISSION MERCHANT, No. 232 Dock 8t., Philadelphia. Pig Iron, Railroad Iron and Iron Ores. Sole Agent for the MONOCACY FURNACE CO. DEALER IN MOSELEM, ROOKHILL, WARWICK, And other Favorite Brands, SILVER GREY IRON A SPECIALTY. J. W. HOFFMAN & CO., Iron Merchants & Railway Equipments. 208 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, age agents 2 of ia sen Co. nd Pine ven Works manu urers o uc rand all grades of Plate Iron. Celebrated ow’ and ae Fine’, brands for fire lh and dimcult ‘tangin Bar Ralls and all shapes tn Iron. Su given on ‘Bridge and Building St Specifications. Pig and otations G. A. HEBERTON. S. FRANK SHARPLESS. HEBERTON & CO., Selling fom and Commission Merchants For the sale of Pig, Bloom, Plate, Bar, Serap, Galvanized * “Black, Sheet, Pipeand Railroad” IRON. No. 333 bi mf Bt. » Phila, Charcoal Bloom and Pig a Specialty IRON. STEEL, SCRAP OF ALL KINDS A SPECIALTY. Firet Quality Muck Bars. SHIMER & CO., Late of and successors to W. HUTTON & CO., 250 8S. Third St., Philadelphia. | Joseph P. Reed. R. Hope Hepburn. JOSEPH P. REED & CO., | | Iron Brokers and Commission Merchawis, 265 8S. Fourth St., Philadelphia. Sole Agente for RIDGEVIEW COAL AND COKE 00,, Latrobe. J. D. BOYLE’S CONNELLSVILLE COKE. HARBISON & WALKER’S FIRE BRICKS. | MAGNETIC and HEMATITE IRON ORES a Specialty. FRANCIS WISTER, | Sole Eastern Agent for A. 4. HUTCHINSON & BRO. CONNELLSVILLE COKE. ORES, Native and Foreign. _ 230! South ‘Third Street, Philadelphia. THH IRON AGH. eee ‘Kron. WSTICE cox, a JUSTICE COX, JR. & CO., sonnre FOR CHICRIES, ST. CHARLES, MONTGOMERY WARWICK, CONEWAGO AND KEYSTONE Foundry & Forge Pig Iron. SHAWNEE ROLLING MILL CO., “Taniied, Best Quality Muck Bar. CATASAUQUA MFG, 00.8 Bar, Angle, Skelp and Sheet [ron, Railroad Car Axles. New and Old Rails, No. 3383 Walnut St., Philadelphia. PETER WRIGHT & SONS. 307 Walnut Street, Phtiadelphia, 55 Broadway, New York, 44 Second Street, Baltimore, Importers of German and English SPIEGELEISEN, Pig, Scrap, NEW AND OLD RAILS, nd fron Ore, JEROME KEELEY & CO., 206 Walnut Place, Philadelphia, SELLING AGENTS FOR CHARCOAL end ANTHRACITE BLOOMS, PIG IRON, BAR IRON. SHEET IRON, STEEL and IRON RAILS GNETIG IRON CLAD STEEL RAILS aud BARS, MA 1 and HEMATITE IRON ORES FIRE BRIC K, COAL and COKE. Rails, Se nd Iron, &c. of Iron an Coal | Properties. | E. H. Wilson. A. Kaiser. E. H. WILSON & CO., 230 South Third Street, Philadelphia, BROKERS AND DEALERS IN IRON AND STEEL. _Correspondence solicited. BLAKEY & WALBAUM, 206 S. Fourth St., PHILADELPHIA. SPECIALTIES: NEW AND OLD RAILS, BLOOMS, BESSEMER PIG, Spiegeleisen Iron Ores AND Railroad Supplies Generally. oie THE STANDARD STEEL WORKS. LOCOMOTIVE AND CAR WHEEL TIRES, Manufactured from the celebrated OTIS STEEL. BRAND Zw STANDARD. Quality and efficiency _ aranteed. Prices as low as any of the sam ty. We manufacture Light F ey an iasee Poretiga, Driving and Car Axles, "Works at Lewistown, Pa, Office, 220 8S, 4th St., Philadelphia, Pa, LANGHORNE WISTER. RODMAN WISTER, L. & R. WISTER, IRON BROKERS. Agents | a me Olearfield Fire Brick Co.’s Fire B No. 200 ‘South ath St., Philadelphia. ‘KEYSTONE HORSE SHOE CO., 17th and Clearfield Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Manufacturers of the Keystone Patent Solid Steel Calk Horse and "ule Shoes, These Shoes are made of superior iron and steel, completely finished and ready for cold shoeing; have clip and solid steel cal«. The holes are punches through at the proper angles and free rom burrs Same number of Shoes per keg as in ___| kegs o' of unfinished | shoes. $$ $$ rr ee JS. FE’. BAILEY c& CO.,., 216 South 4th Street, - SELLING Pottsville Iron & Steel Co.’s Beams, ROBERTS & CO.'S A. & P. Car Axies, Piates, Channeis, - PHILADELPHIA, AGENTS, Angles, Channels, Rails and Bars, Tees, Angies and Bar Iron. Universal and Sheared Plates for Bridge and Other Work. Fpec ial attention given, to all kinds of Structural! Irons 816 Kichmond Street, CHARLES K, BARNS, MUCK WARS. Handle Old Iron and Steel Examino and negotiate sales iser. J. B. M. Hirons 5 (Continued from page 1). port, which before was the admission port, now serves as an exhaust passage. At the end of the fourth period all the parte which have participated in the motion, return to their initial positions. As far as workmanship is concerned, it should be stated that the motor here described is equal, if not su- perior, to many now in the market, and the valves, instead of becoming useless, or at Dl 1 tery et -—-+ i p~ stilt, Ss ah I S eeallitaal lee AIEEE boro AGH Z i, LLL ag Ke ais Se * enh, Ms ‘ pe A Gs “@! LL, SG IN SOs \ XY . et S vi ad xe Fig. 5. least deficient in some —— by long usage, as in the case with many, have been found to have acquired a more perfect fit after having been in use for some time. The different joints are also easily kept in good order, on account of their small size, and the losses of effective work by excessive friction of water in entering and of the se arate parts of the apparatus have been duly considered and provided for. At high speeds the friction is necessarily greater than when running slowly, and it has been found that, with from 100 to 170 revolutions per minute, 75 per cent. of the work per- formed is available. Mr. Mégy’s first en- gines were low-pressure engines, but by means of suitable modifications and improve- ments in design and construction, he pro- duced the high-pressure reversing engine here shown. The reversing of the motor is effected by operating a lever which changes the position of the pivot carrying the lever H, causing it to occupy a position having a fixed relation to the axis of the valve. By operating the lever J, the ratchet N may be caused to occupy two extreme positions, and by its action the lever H escillates on either of the fixed axes, e or f, and the forward or backward motion of the aa depends entirely upon the axis emplo he engines, which are Peile by Messrs. Sautter, Lemonnier & Co., of Paris, are, at ome, used as pumping engines, and we come peenawe, at no distant date, give addi- tional information relating to this novel application, which, according to recent reports, has been attended by highly gratify- ing results. seine acaaemeadlinsiaibaanaaaeae New Explosives for Coal Mining — Experiments have lately been made in a seam of the Polnick Ostran Colliery, Austria, on some new explosive substances, with a view to ascertain their value as explosives in detaching coal. These substances, the names of which, with their chemical composition, we take from the Iron and Coal Trades Review, have been found superior todynamite in their effects: 1. Paralite is a coarse- grained powder, containing 63 per cent. of nitrate of potassium, 30 per cent. of coal, and 6 per cent. of sulphate of antimony. 2. Jaline, which contains from 65 to 75 per cent. of nitrate of potassium, 10 per cent. of sulphur, 10 to 50 per cent. of lignite, 3 to 8 per cent. of picrate of soda, and 2 per cent. of potassium, is less inflammable and less violent in its action than peralite, but brings away larger quantities of coal, and in larger pieces. 3. Carbazotine, which contains about 610 parts per 1000 of nitrate of potassium, 8 of sulphate of iron, 247 of soot or lam black, and 135 parts of sulphur, has “a half the weight of powder, and is very hygrometric, but it may readily be dried by the heat of a stove. Its action is slow, and it ignites with difficulty, so that it is perfectly safe, and may be recommended where great precaution is needed. 4 Coal Dynamite No. 3 is similar to Nobel's cheap dynamites, and consists of a mixture of nitro-glycerine and gunpowder of in- ferior quality, which, in this case, takes the place of porous silica. The proportion of large, medium and small coal produced by the defferent substances is as follows : Large. Medium. Small. Per cent. Per cent. Per cent Coal dynamite.... 21.4 35.6 43.0 Carbazotine... ... 26.3 37-7 36.0 Peratite .. 19.9 37-7 44-4 Jaline ... 22.9 38.5 38.6 scence A borate of soda having five equivalents of water may be produced by dissolving 12 tons of soda in about 528 gallons of water, satur