The Iron Age 1882-09-21: Vol 30 Iss 12

1882, ee lle. VG. Per air. 1.60 2.00 t.50 3.50 ‘The Iron Ag A Review of the Hardware, Iron and Metal Trades. Published every Thursday Morning by Davrp Writiams, No. 83 Reade Street, New York. Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. Vol. XX2 : No. ‘de New Slotting Machine. Our illustrations represent a new slotting machine just completed by the Newton Ma- chine Tool Works, 2341 Callowhill street, Philadelphia, Pa. This tool is intended to do all the work usually performed on tools of this kind, and has all the motions, attach- ments, &c., belonging to its class. <A care- ful examination of it will show that unusual thought and care have been bestowed upon the design, and that the parts are propor- tioned with a careful regard for the work which they have to do, and the strains which are liable to be brought upon them. The frame, it will be noticed, is unusually mas- sive, with the base spread out so as to support the whole machine, and at the same time give a maximum area of metal at the point where the greatest strain falls at the moment the cut is made. This is frequently neglected, even in tools from our best manufactories. The frame is car- ried up without any considerable amount of diminution in section until the upper bearing is reached. Both the upper and jower arms supporting the slide are very strong, the web giving the lower arm an unusual amount Of stiffness. The mo- tion is the well-known ‘‘ Whitworth quick return,” giving a slow cut with a quick up- ward movement. The table has all the usual feed motions given to it, and differs in its shape from some of those met with in our shops, being circular in form. This has the | advan of giving firm support to every | part. The hand-feed works independently | of the power-feed, but by peculiar adaptation of the two, both can be used at the same time, and, if necessary, worked in opposite directions also atthe same time. Taken alto- | gether, the tool is a very desirable one, and will be found to meet the wants of a great variety of shops. The perspective shows a very dsome machine with details well elaborated. a Er The Eston Steel Works, Great Britain. | Recent developments in connection with the basic Boleckow, Vaughan & Co., at Eston. It will be remembered that the production of steel | has now been in regular oper- the basic process in P England was left | ation for 18 months, and suf- woke to the above estab- lishment, and it is only re- cently that extensions have been contemplated in this di- rection. The converting house at Eston is divided into two de- pees the basic and the , each containing four converters in a row, the basic converters having nom- inally 10 tons capacity each, and the Bessemer five. Each vessel is capable, however, of containing more than its nom- inal tonnage. The vessels are placed at greater dis- tances apart than is common in onr American steel plants, with theadvantages of greater accessibility and greater room on the platform for charging and er necessary opera- tions. There is one ladle crane to each pair of conver- ters, not top supported, as in our works, but balanced by a counterweight. It has the three motions of lifting, mov- ing around a circle, and carrying the ladle out or in, from or toward the center, all controllable . * hydraulic machinery. Its lift is so high that the ladle can be lifted above the in molds when these are ing on the ground level, thus coontng the deep pit to be —- with, and greatly facilitating the placing of the ingot molds. The pig metal u in these converters (both basic and Bessemer) is all coupes directly from the blast furnaces, of which there are 19 immediat- ely surrounding the steel works. It is brought in ladles running on wheels from the blast furnaces to the steel works, hoisted by a hydrau- ulic lift to the railway track on the platform behind the converters, run on this track to the vessel which is ready for it, and tapped through a short inclined runner direct! into the vessel, into whic the basic additions and a few crop ends or other pieces of scrap have already been placed. After the blow, which lasts about 20 minutes, the con- verter is turned back to- ward the platform, and a sample is taken out and tested by ham- mering, cooling and breaking, in or- der to determine whether the poriiee- tion has been complete. After this has been done, the steel is poured into the crane ladle, where it is mixed with the spiegel, which has been tapped into two ont ladles from one of four cupolas standing together on the platform, ‘he subsequent operations pre- New York, Thursday, September 21, 1882. sent nothing strikingly different from the | ingots from 14 to 15 inches square down to 7 generally well-known method of manufac- | inches square. The apparatus known as the | supporting this statement. ture, dwelt upon in our columns at different | ‘‘ go-devil,” for carrying and turning the em times, and further particulars in this connec- | ingots, is not used at Eston, and, conse-| [ron and Steel Wire in Germany. | tion are therefore unnecessary. quently, the force of men at the rolls is much The coverting plant has apparently been | larger than at American works. The ingots,| The manufacture of iron and steel wire is built in the light of American practice, and! after blooming, are generally not sheared | now being vigorously prosecuted in Germany, is a radical departure from and appears to be affected the old English arrangement. It is, in fact, somewhat simi- lar to the new converting plant at Harrisburg. The production does not seem with that of our principal works, this being, however, explained by the fact that no attempt is made to force each converter to its utmost capacity. Two of the four converters are always idle, and are ready for use as soon as the other two are stopped for repairs. The working force of men is enough to keep two converters at work, aon H NC but little by the general de- pression prevailing in that country. Thirty-seven wire mills, producing each 500 tons per month, or about 220,000 tons per year, are now in operation, and the greater number are engaged in rolling mild steel wire, as the ge gg of bars or blooms y the Bessemer process is less costly than that of the high-class puddled iron bars | required for wire rolling. The homogeneous character of the metal, and the practicability of making blooms of any| desired softness or percentage v large when compared in Great Britain lend con-| machinery is in operation siderable interest to the following necessarily | at one time, no capital being brief description of the steel works of Messrs. | allowed toremainidle. The of carbon, and the higher | price which can be obtained for the product, isan addi- tional advantage. It is said | that in the latest built mill | the time from the insertion ! of the bar in the first groove | to its leaving the last rolls is about half a minute, and the speed of rolling is such that when the end of the wire leaves the last rolls the next wire is just arriving before them. The furnace is charged with about a ton of billets at a time, and 11 charges ara and the men work 12 hours per day instead of eight, as some of the American works. By increasing the force of men,running three shifts of eight hours each, and keeping every converter in active operation the whole time when, it is not stopped for re- airs, the production of these our converters might prob- ably be brought, up to 5000 tons per week, against the present output, 2500 tons. The lateMr, A. L. Holley’s invention of removable shells has not yet been adopted, but, made in 12 hours. The roll- judging from present indica- ing down of a charge takes tions, will probably soon from 25 to 30 minutes, the remainder of the time being required for heating. The roughing rolls are placed in the same train with the others and are arranged in tiers three high, and _ contain grooves for six passes for- ward and backward. The first section is a pointed oval, the second diamond, the third oval, the fourth dia-| come into general use. The removable shell, however, appears to be more fully appreciated in American works, where all available | basic plant at these works ~_- ' ,- ‘ eee ee. . , cian sant > &-eeeecess & oo . ——— oo OE a Fig. 2.—Front View. Fig. 3.—Side Elevation. NEW SLOTTING MACHINE, BUILT BY THE NEWTON MACHINE TOOL WORKS, PHILADELPHIA. | ficient evidence has been given to show | into rail lengths, but are at once taken to|mond, the fifth oval and the sixth | that the process is no longer in the experi-|the 2-high reversing rail mill, which rolls again diamond, The square rod is taken | mental stage. : three or more lengths of rails at once, which | from the roughing rolls to the second rolls | The large number of Siemens furnaces | are then sawed to le by the hot saws. | with oval grooves, and is passed twice through | ors for heating ingote, before and|This method of 2-high folling of long | the second and third rolls—namely, forward after blooming, do not differ in size nor | lengths seems certainly more economical of through the second, then back through the — from those in American works. | both labor and crop ends than the Ameri- | third, forward again through the second and | Two e 2-high b mills, driven | can 3-high single-length system, and the back through the third rolls. The wire then ' by reversing engines, serve blooming the | adoption of the method at the new South! passes once through each of the remaining j ' $4.50 a Year, Including Post; . Single Copies, Zen Cents. Chicago plant will probably yield results| four pairs of rolls, the last rolls containing round finishing grooves. The reduction in the oval grooves is about 40 per cent., while the diminution in the diamond grooves is | about 20 per cent. In 1879, 4585 tons of wire were turned out, for which 5200 tons of puddled bars were used. The roughing rolls are placed in line with the others and driven at the same speed, the wire thus being finished off quicker and at a higher temperature. This, however, is not the usual practice, most mills having the roughing rolls separate and driven direcily from the shaft of the engine, while the high- speed wire rolls are driven by means of belts, and, in some cases, also by hemp ropes, which are said to work very satisfactorily. Instead of six wire rolls, there are some- times eight, the wire being passed only once through each pair, In this arrangement t.vo additional men are required, but the :d- vantage of more rapid working is said to counterbalance the additional expense en- tailed by this method. ee The Coal Industry of Japan. An interesting report from Nagaselci, Japan, gives some information concerning the coal-mining industry of that locality. The field from which the main supply of coal for the Nagasaki market is Giahesd; is situated along the coast line extending nor! h- ward from Cape Nomo, in the south, up to the entrance of Nagasaki Harbor, and then-e in a westerly direction almost to Hirado- shima, the most northerly of the Goto Islan‘is. Along the coast line of the main land the coal measures are found to be much broken up and of limited extent, owing to the hea y ' denudation and upheaval which the strata have undergcne in former periods. In all t} various groups of islands, however, with which the sea in the district is studded, the coal has, to a greater or less extent, becn worked in the past, and it is to these islan«|s that in the future Nagasaki may lock for adequate supplies of coal. The coal-bearing stratum of the district seems by common consent among geologists to te referred to the tertiary period. ‘he coal is described us being highly bituminous, of irregular frac ture, inclining toward cubical, having when freshly broken a lus‘ nous black appearance, which changes by proiracted exposure to at- mospheric influence to a dull rusty black. The known reams of workable coal vary con- siderably in thickness, ths thinnest seam wrought being barely 3 feet in thickn 3, and the thickest being an f- foot seam. On account of tke limited extent to which pros- pe operations hav» itherto been carried on, it is impossible, with any de- gree of accuracy, to stats what the total thickness of workable coal may be, but the ‘*Goto Tankosha,” a mining company in whose hands the greatest portion of the coal field is placed, have already proved and worked at tkeir Taka-shima mines coal seams of an aggregate thickness of 50 feet. The existence has also been proved near Matsu-shima of two seams of coal, each measuring 7 feet in thickness, and there are several seams of from 4 to 6 feet at present being worked on other islauds, notadly Koyaki, Iwo-shima and Cki- shima, but in a primit've manner by native miners. At present the supply of coal is almost entirely de- rived from the workings of the ‘Goto Tankosha” com- pany, at their Takashima mines, These mines are situate on Taka-shima, a small island of from 300 to 400 acres inextent, lying about eight miles southwest from Nagasaki. It is related in early history that fisher- men who inhabited this is- land, in making fires to light their fishing operatious, found and used for this purpose the first outcrorp- ings of the coal, which circumstance no doubt orivi- nally attracted attention to, and was the cause subce- quently of, discovering the existence of the coal field, Coal was known to be ob- tained from this island by the Japanese for the last two centuries, but the quantity extracted was very small, and the mining operations, as carried on by them, were simple and rude, and consisted principally in following down the coal seams from the'r outcrop at the surface until the quaat- tty of water draining in from abo.e became too great for their ineffective pumping appliances to deal with. This latter event generally occurred at a point varying from 100 to 150 yards from the surface, and when it took place the working was abandoned, and fresh outcrops prospected for. The system of workixg —_— i, ae. 4 a > 7 » NG ‘ Hy "ar } at my ut ou a 4-2 OE eer a =F Tass et a et ==. = a tae : eens . a 2 ANSONIA BRASS & COPPER CO., No. LD Cliff Str eet, Phelps Building, NEW YORK. MANUFACTURERS 0! BRASS AND COPPER Waterbury Brass Co Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass, GERMAN SILVER, Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire, BRASS AND COPPER TUBING, COPPER RIVETS & BURS, BRASS KETTLES, Door Rail, Brass Tags, PERCUSSION CAPS, POWDER FLASES, Metallic me Shot Pouches, Tape Measures, 4c. Ant oe ee, Wares of every Desesiption. n Sheets or Shells a Specialty. Sole A ies i ‘4 Capewell ee re *g Line of Sport- Sheets, Bolts, Rods, Wire, &c. Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. Ansonia Corrugated Stove Platforms. PURE COPPER WIRE For Electrical Purposes, Bare and Covered. Phosphor Bronze Rods for Pumps, &c. ANSONIA * REFINED INCOT COPPER. PHELPS, DODGE & CO, IMPORTERS OF DEPOTS: 296 Broadway, New York, WATERBURY, TIN PLATE, 125 Eddy St., Providence, R. 1. Conn. ROOFING PLATE, Sheet Iron, Copper, Pig Tin Wire, Zine, &c. MANUFACTURERS OF Detroit Copper & Brass COPPER AND BRASS.| Rolling Mills, CLIFF STREET, NEW YORK. BRAZIERS’ AND SHEATHING COPPER, SCOVILL MW MFC CO ROLLED, SHEET & PLATERS' BRASS B RASS, GERMAN OR NICKEL SILVER, Copper ‘a for Electrical and a. Marae HINGES, wine, Ses GERMAN SILVER. and German Silver Copper Rivets and ents PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS. | copper BOTTOMS FOR TEA KETTLES AND BOILERS, Cor. Larned & Fourth Sts., Detroit, Mich. eurTene, ese CLOTH AND METAL. DEPOTS, FACTORIES, ROME IRON WORKS, 419 & 421 Broome St., N, Y. Waterbury, Conn. Man of 177 Devonshire St., Boston. St Chicago, iw.” | Brags, Gilding Metal, Cop- DICKERSON, VAN DUSEN & CO.,| per and German Silver Importers of (In Sheets, Rods, Tubing or Wire), Tin Plate, Pig Tin, Sheet Iron, Cooper,| COPPER & BRASS RIVETS Wire, Zinc, Ete. AND BURS. DICKERSON & CO» Liverpos, NEW YORE, A. C. NORTHROP, Waterbury, Conn., NOVELTIES IN BRASS AND OTHER METAL GOODS FOR HARDWARE TRADE. Brass 8c Turned, Hi Round and Square Head Wreanht ren Om iron Bafety and Jack Chain; dilt, Nickel and Brouse Trimmings et ei teel or ied articles, or any description of Sheet Metal work, respectfully solicited and n patented promptly given. ’ WORKS ; ROES Sian S New York Office TRENTON, Warehouse, 117 Liberty Street. THE JOHN A. ROEBLING’S SONS CO, WIRE ROPE! ciivacrzey |Lron and Steel Iron, Steel and Copper, | Telegraph Wire, WIRE Hoisting Purposes of ob Market Wire, Market Wire, Fence Wire, kinds, for oe ane Vine ard Wire Bridge Wire, Chain Wire, Ship Rigging, Sash Cords . 7 Lightning Rods, &c., &c. J eee runny Gas Sarg, Seananahee Bridge Cables. Rivet Wire, &c., &c. GALVANIZED WIRE CLOTHES LINES. BRODERICK & BASCOM ROPE CO., MANUFACTURERS OF WIRE ROPE BRODERICK& BASCOM ROPE Co. RON WIRE ROPE, STEEL WIRE ROPE;| 728 N. Main St., St. Louis, Mo. WORCESTER WIRE COs, Manufacturers of IRON AND STEEL W For all Purposes. WORCESTER, MASS. ~~, ge. sr eo Caines nee THE IRON AGE. September 21, 1gg2. 0 a es | : 7 a oo ——_ — The Plume & Atwood Mfg. Company, MANUFACTURERS OF CHARLES F. een Vice President & Secretary. PHILIP L. MOEN, President & Treasurer. SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, | German Silver and Gilding Metal, Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co. Copper Rivets and Burs, Established, 1831. Capital, $1,500,000 WORCESTER, MASS. WIRE DRAWERS. Patent Galvanizing, Rolling and Tempering, MANUFACTURERS OF | 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. Rolling Mill, Factories, THOMASTON, Ct. Bridgeport B Brass Co., Sheet and 1 Roll oi Brees, Brass & Copper Wire & Tubing, German Silver Metal and Wire, Copper and Iron Rivets. OILERS and CUSPADORES, | LAMPS and TRIMMINGS, LANTERNS and TRIMMINGS, | KEROSENE BURNERS, Clocks & Fly Fan Movements, | PLUMBERS’ MATERIALS. tion paid to cutting out Blanks and Particular atten’ eee Metal Goods, \ ee ee a TRON, AND IRON AND STEEL WIRE. Of Every Description. i} —_— e } — WATERBURY, Ct. A SPECIALTY MADE OF | GALVANIZED TELEGRAPH WIRE, GALVANIZED TELEPHONE WIRE, PATENT STEEL WIRE BALE TIES, PATENT STEEL BARB FENCING, AND PUMP CHAIN. {§ New York, 16 Cliff and P ™ WAREHOUSES | Chicago, 107 and 109 Lake Geren — eoarant. } Se \ , ten ; ~ " J SSS its NY \\ LL S— SS ) “NATIONAL WIRE AND LANTERN WORKS.” HOWARD & MORSE, NUFACTURERS OF THE “BOSS” TUBULAR LANTERNS. The Boss, Bridgeport, Conn. | 19 mereay | Bt, N. ¥. HARRISON WIRE CO., ‘ST. LOUIS, MO., MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF. STEEL AND IRON WIRE ROPE. Holmes, Booth & Haydens, WATERBURY, CONN. NEW YORK, BOSTON, 49 Chambers St. 18 Federal St. Manufacturers of all kinds of Brass, Copper & German Silver, ROLLED AND IN SHEETS. BRASS & COPPER WIRE, Tubing, Copper Rivets & Burs. BRASS & IRON JACK CHAIN, DOOR RAIL. German Silver Spoons, SILVER PLATED FORKS & SPOONS, Kerosene Burners, &c. JOHN DAVOL & SONS, Agents for Brooklyn Brass & Copper Co., Dealers in Ingot Copper, Spelter, Lead, Tin, Antimony, Solder & Old Metals. 100 John Street, New York. PASSAIC ZINC CO. Pure Spelter Cartridge Brass, Gas Fixtures, Bronzes AND ALL FINE WORK, Also for Galvanizers & Brass Founders. MANNING & SQUIER, Gen’! Agents, 118 Liberty Street, N. Geo. W. Prentiss b Co., OLYOKE, MASS MANUFACTURERS OF WIRE. Warehouse, 45 Fulton Street, New ABRAM 8. HEWITT, President, SO ee Seen. WM. HEWITT, Vice President. E. HANSON, Secretary TRENTON IRON COMPANY, IRPORATED 1847), TRENTON, N. J.. Manufacturers of LRONand STEEL WIRE OF ALL GRADES, BRIGHT, ANNEALED, COPPERED, TINNED AND GALVANIZED Iron and Steel Wire Rods; EXTRA QUALITIES OF BAR IRON AND RODS. Best Qualities of Gun-Screw and Charcoal Iron Wire; Crucible, Siemens-Martin and Bessemer Steel Wire. Wire Straightened and Cut to en pon ¥ York Office, COOPER, HEWITT & CO., adelphia Office, JOHN HEWITT. Agent. or ’ North IRON AND STEEL WIRE ROPE For Hoisting, Running & Standing Ropes, Ferries, & CONSTANTLY KEPT ON HAND, Address: HAZARD MFG. CO., Wilkesbarre, Ikesbarre, Luzerne Co., ne Co., Pa, FELTEN & GUILLEAUME, Carlswerk, near Cologne, Germany. PATENT CRUCIBLE STEEL WIRE, ining and Plow Ropes, Hawsers and B SIEMENS-MARTIN AND BESSEMER : "STEEL WIRE, nm, Swedish and German Cha: 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, ne 7- ir Gieand, Stages, &c. Annealed pi Ofled Feacing WIRE ROPE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. TELEGRAPH CABLES. Contractors to the German and Foreign governments. The os Rowse in the braneb tinent. Telegraph Address, CAKLSWERK, COLO . wap Gee General Agents for U. 8. and ‘Sain, PERKINS & CHOATE, 23 Nassau St, N. Y. IRON Bright, Coppered, An i and Tn Plated. Also GUN scREW WIRE straightened and cut to order. No. 3. Manufacturers of rap & LESCHEN c< SON, Of all sizes to* 1% _Tarred am Manila Rope. ‘SoulM] ‘Suiyoeg dwoy BROWNING, SISUM & CO., 85 Chambers St., Map s Hooks, Cetters, Spring Kory, D Rings, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. sapien Feary eaceeL a” "ze bending. 9 to 023 N. Main St. ST, LOUIS, MO, Correspondes oe invited, = = UNS. . e “suyyseg dwiey | =~ & C0., Manufacturers of all kinds of Japanned, Brass & Tin Plated BIRD CAGES. "Catalogues furnished to the trade. 254 Pearl St., NEW YORK. 0. LINDEMANN 934, 936 and 238 West 29th Street, ~ - - - a POWER PRESSES, ‘TRON and BRASS RIVETS, RIVET MACHINES, Special Machinery to Order. | BLAKE: & JOHNSON, THE IRON AGH. 4 CARY « MOEN, Maanot cturers of STEEL WIRE forall ourpeses and. TEEL SPRINGS of every description. YT | } rc § LY) HU PO ig — ‘ “sg UU LICL LL LL LEL LLL LLELLL AEE KEELE EALLLLLLALL ELEC LLELLLLLLL ALLA ALLA LAA Market Steel Wire. Crinojine Wire, tempered and covered. Also Patent Tempered Steel Furniture Springs, constantly on hand. NEW YORK, STUDS, PINS, &c., For Manufacturers of Light Hardware. WATERBURY, CONN. POPE,COLE & Co. BALTIMORE COPPER WORKS, No. 57 South Gay St., BALTIMORE, MD., Have always en hand and for sale INGOT COPPER, Also Cakes, of unequaled purity and toughness. G. Gunther, Manufacturer of \ Patented Brass, Sliver Plated 7 and Japanned il BIRD CAGES. Can be nested for ex- port shipments. 46 Park Place, NEW YORK. patterns and unsurpassed in 4 FOUNDER YMEN’S METALLIC Pattern Letters and Figures, eam orton Mnfd. by vi We Kenn, eles tee, N.Y, Bergen Port Spelter. : WORKS & FURNACES, Lehigh Valley, Pa. Bergen Port, N. J. The only Miners and Manufacturers of PURE LEHICH SPELTER From Lehigh Ore. Bspecially adapted for Cartridge Metal and German Silver. Also manufaetarers of BERGEN PORT OXIDE ZINC. Superior for Liquip Pam on aceount of its bedy BERCEN PORT ZINC CO. E. A. FISHER, Agent, 13 Burling Slip, N. Y. CALVIN WELLS, A. MEANS, ILLINOIS ZINC €O., MANUFACTURERS OF SHEET ZINC, PERU, ILLINOIS. g. Aq FISHER, $ - +2 Agent, 18 Burling Slip, New York, The “PERNOT CAST” PLOW STEEL made by the GAUTIER STEEL DEPART- MENT of Cambria Iron Co., Johnstown, Pa., is high in temper, excellent in surface, and can be used in many cases instead of Iron Center, at about half the price. No. 17. 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. 8. A Centrifugal force applied to a rolling ball for the purpose of pulverizing. Tested thoroughly and guaranteed to yield a greater product ef pulverized material of equal fineness in a given time with less wear, less power, less first cost and less cost for repairs than stamps or any other pulverizer. HOWARD EVANS, MOLDERS’ TOOLS, FOUNDRY FACING, MOLDING SAND, FOUNDRY SUPPLIES, J. A. EMERICK & CO., 1056 to 1076 Beach St., PHILADELPHIA. ESTABLISHED 1837. INCORPORATED 1876. H. §. Cuaspr, Sec’y. C. F. Pops, Treas. Waterbury Mfg. Co., WATERBURY, CONN. Brass Goods. MENDEN & SCHWERTE IRON AND STEEL WIRE WORKS, AT SCHWERTE, WESTPBRALIA, GERMANY. The Wire Works in the world. Make, on 12 t STEEL AND IRON WIRE RODS of all Rar to No. 8 and 9, Stubs gouge. Also, FID IRON, H IRON, BaR IRON r all nsions and qualities. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE UNITIMD £TATES: WOLTMAN & MICKERTS, ST. LOUIS, MO. j miners without the assistance of foreigners A Se ae ee ee which was in use in these old native opera- | of the wildest and most absurd enactments tions was a very primitive description of | in all branches of the service are made by ** pillar-and-stall’’ working, bearing a strong department decisions and not by Congress. resemblance to the old method for extracting the vein in metalliferous mining. Most of the mining operations carried on by native ee The Mineral Wealth of Siberia. still partake very much of this character, al- It is only within the past few years that though, of course, they are considerably mod- due attention has been called to the vast ified by the example offered by the works mineral riches of Siberia, a country seldom which are being prosecuted under foreign heard of except in connection with traus- supervision. The natives continued to work | portation, and the commercial importance the coal in T'aka-shima in a more or less desul- | of which has, in but few cases, been properly tory fashion until the year 1868, when an appreciated. At the present time the min- Englishman became interested in the native | eral treasures of that country seem inex- mining operations, and entered into arrange- | haustible, the Kouznetsky coal basin, for ments with the authorities for the purpose of | Instance, Covering an enormous area con- working the coal after the European system, | taining iron ore and extensive forests, be- Foreign mining engineers were engaged sides the river Tom, so convenient for the and improved machinery imported, but the | transportation of material. Notwithstand- mines were subsequently taken over by the | ing all favorable circumstances, the manu- Japanese Government to its own use, on the | facture of iron in Siberia does not progress, enactment of the law prohibiting foreigners | and the various minerals, with the excep- from holding or working mines in Japanese | tion of gold and silver, are undisturbed. The territory. From the Japanese Government | regular working of gold mines in Russia is the mines passed into the hands of their comparatively speaking, of recent date, an present owner, Mr. Goto Shojiro, who works | the precious metal was at first obtained ex- them by a business corporation called the clusively from quartz Tock, under innumer- ‘Goto Tankosha,” the work of the company | #ble unfavorable conditions. In the last and being carriei on by Japanese, acting under | the beginning of the present century gold the advice and assistance of a foreign man- | Ws obtained from the silver gold and gold ager and engineer. The average daily out-| veins of Altar and Nerchirsk, but with the put of coal from this company’s mines is at discovery of auriferous sands it was found present about 1000 tons, with a capacity of | more profitable to obtain the precious metal supplying about double that quantity when | by the cheaper process of washing, and the required. The coal is obtained from three | old mines have consequently been abandoned, separate seams, measuring respectively 8} With the exception of the Government feet, 10 feet and 18 feet. The method of | Berezof mines in the province of Perm, work adopted is the ordinary post and stall which were opened in 1754. _The working system. As most of the workings extend | 0f auriferous sands was first introduced by out from the island beneath the sea, consid-|the Government mining establishments in erable difficulties have to be encountered in | the Ural in 1814, and then by private mine contending with water, engine-power of the | proprietors in 1829, Western Siberia follow- total of 200 horse-power being used in pump- | ng in the same year, and Kastern Siberia in ing. The dip and rise of the stratum at|1538. The largest yield of gold was ob- Taka-shima being very steep, the main tained in 1847, being nearly equal to three- haulage is carried on almost entirely by | fifths of the entire ge of gold obtained engine-power, the power being transmitted | throughout the world. The quantity subse- through steel wire ropes of 244 inch in| quently decreased considerably, not on ac- circumference. The aggregate length of | count of any scarcity of the metal, but owing engine roads below ground is over |‘ the discovery of rich mines in California 3 miles. As the workings have extended | and Australia, which had all the advantages large quantities of firedamp have been en-|°f easy access, and where the necessary countered, which fact has necessitated an | appliances could be easily obtained. One of elaborate system of ventilation. Fans are in the drawbacks which probably prevented the use for this purpose, which, it is stated, pass | fapid development of the gold mining indus- a quarter of a million of cubic feet of air|try in Siberia was the proximity of the through the mines per minute. All the mines | 20mad tribes, who infested the borders, and are illuminated by means of locked safety whose incursions were of constant occur- lamps, the Clanny being the form of lamp in| tence. It is easy to understand that under use. Several severe explosions have oc-|such conditions it was impossible for this curred in the mines, the last taking place |imdustry to prosper. Within the last 40 in April, 1880, when 70 miners were | years there has been a rapid increase in the killed. There are about 4000 workmen em- | production of gold, owing partly to the im- ployed in and about the Taka-shima mines, proved method of washing the auriferous which include a very competent staff of me-|sands and the introduction of improved chanics. All repairs are done and new ma- machinery, and partly to the number of new hinery made at the mines by the company. | mines opened up. : The coal is conveyed from Taka-shima to The Government has now also recognized Nagasaki in native junks, of which about | all the defects of the old mining statutes and 100 are in constant use, being towed to and |has commenced their revision, With the fro by the company’s steam tugboat. The extension of the privileges of the gold seekers cost of transportation is trifling. The Taka- | aud the contemplated handing over of the shima coal has been gradually coming more | Government establishments to private indi- and more iuto favor as a steam coal, both | viduals, there can be no doubt that the quan- for vessels of war and merchant steamers. | tity of gold obtained will considerably in- It is used by the American steamers of the | crease, and that a much larger quantity of Pacific Mail and Occidental and Oriental | the precious metal can be obtained from the Steamship companies, also by the British Siberian mines, even under the present con- mail steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental | ditions, were it not that the mine propri- Company, besides all the ocean steamers run- | etors, on the one hand, deem it necessary to ning between Europe and China and Japan. | keep in reserve vast areas of auriferous The navies of Germany, France, Russia and land ; and, on the other, the washing is not Italy have adopted it for use when in East-| effectually done, some localities known to ern waters. contain rich gold deposits being considered The Nagasaki market also obtains small | inconvenient for working. All this affords supplies of coal from various other mines in | 4 striking contrast to this business in Amer- the immediate locality, notably from the | ica or Australia. About 1856 a rumor got Karatsu, Imabuko and Taku mines. These | about that the gold in Siberia was becoming mines are all situated on small outlying fields | exhausted ; this rumor originated from the of coal, and the quality is inferior, while the | system of mining itself, which was bad. The quantity supplied is very irregular, on ac- | work was so slovenly done that the gold was count of the difficulties of transportation and | taken from the surface only, and the re- the desultory manner in which the workings | mainder buried by the falling in of the are conducted, as the operations are carried | Workings. Owing to the peculiar footing on out entirely by Japanese, It may be further which gold mining is placed in Russia, the noted that the Japanese Government have | Vast extent of the allotments, with the per- lately opened out a new field of coal at Miike, | mission to obtain other contiguous allotments in the Higo district, This mew colliery is|in the name of several members of one supplied with all the latest foreign mining family, by which the prohibition of requiring machinery, and is carried on under the super- | two adjacent allotments is evaded, it is nat- intendence of a foreign mining engineer, It |ural that gold mining, founded as it is on has an output capacity of from 300 to 400 | hired labor, must assume the character of a tons per day. The coal is described as being monopoly, and become the inheritance of a of a somewhat inferior quality, and is prin- | limited number of individuals, and that the cipally shipped to Shanghai for use in the | working of the mines with a view to rapid native river steamers. The yield of coaj|enrichment could not be effected anything from the Miike mine last year was 142,235 | like economically. Hence spring all the tons, of which 17,904 tons were sold in| vexatious epee of gold mining in Rus- Japan, and 124,331 tons were sold in China. | la, Irregularities on the part of mine owners A coal mine has been recently opened by | in the hiring of diggers so as only to get as private enterprise at Nakano-shima, an island | many hands as possible, large advances, near Taka-shima, where a pit has been sunk | treats to oceans of fiery corn whiskey before and machinery erected, but the work of leaving for the diggings and on returning mining has been delayed. Anthracite coal is | back again. — Having spent all their four found on the island of Amakusa, about 4o| months’ earnings, the miners during eight miles from Nagasaki. This coal is found in| months appear as unproductive con- beds varying in thickness from 3 feet to § | sumers, living from hand to mouth on occa- feet and 10 feet, but is not worked to any | sional advances on account of the uext year’s extent, and only on the old methods. In | engagement, a appearance it is much like American anthra-| __ Another great drawback to gold mining in cite coal, but contains large quantities of | Siberia results from the difficulty of satis- sulphur, and on this account has not been | factorily solving the question of labor and much used for house purposes among foreign | the supply of provisions, coupled with the residents. It is mostly shipped to China, | fact that the mining operations can be con where it is mixed with American anthracite, | ducted only during four months in the year and sold to foreign ships. The extent to which the price of provisions tn affects the production of gold may be judged from the fact that the high prices of flour and expensive carriage to the mines which prevailed some time since caused the most extensive proprietors to diminish the number It is to be sincerely hoped that some of the absurdities in our present system of tariff charges will be brought to the early notice of the Tariff Commission. Almost at | of hands employed in the following propor every session some points of this kind have|tions: The Zotoff Company from 1800 to been noticed, and the attention of the com- | 100; the Goloubkoft Company from 1200 to mission was recently called to some rewark- 130; the Benardaki Company suspended able facts in connection with the tariff on operations altogether; the Ashasheff Com works of art. Marble statues by foreign ar- pany employed very few. The Grigorieft tists are imported at a tariff of 10 per cent. | Company, instead of 650 hands, employed as works of art, but marble copies uf statues, | only 130, andthe Latkin Company, instead whether by the original artist or not, are | of goo, only 400. It is a notorious fact that charged 50 per cent. as ** manufactures of | gold mining has not left behind it the least marble.” An American artist can thus | trace of civilization, the sites of the aban- make a clay model and send it to Italy to be | doned diggings presenting nothing but a vast copied in marble, and the work would come | wilderness without a sign of a habitation in free of duty as the production of an Amer-| Silver mining presents a marked contrast ican artist, but a marble copy by the same | to the production of the nobler metal, and, artist of another artist’s work would be/| with oue or two exceptions, is entirely in the taxed 50 per cent. as a manufacture. This) hands of the State. Russia is generally is not part of the original law, but it is a| credited with the ownership of some of the Treasury decision, and it may not be out of | most valuable silver-lead mines in the world, place in this eomuestion tw state that many such as those of the Altai, Nerchinsk, in the THE IRON AGE... OGDEN, WALLACE, Warnes & ow OHFORD IRON C0 |W, 0, WOOD & CO:S 85,87, 89 & 91 Elm St., New York. IRON MERGHANTS, (B. G. CLARKE, Receiver,) fron and Steel 28 & 29 West and 52 Washineton Sts Cut N a ' ‘| S hecnte ns tare mretues aco | (AON & STEEL BOILER PLATE. SPIK! ES. BLACK DIAMOND STEEL BOILER TUBES, +m cians of Cast and Machinery Steel constantly | Angle, Toe and Girder Iron, J. 8. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, sla, a SNOW SHOES fe ROADSTER PATTERN, on Boiler and Tank Rivets. Sole Agents for the celebrated LUKENS, PENNOCKS, * WAWASSET,” “* EUREKA.” 1 pranas of Iron, Alsoal! descriptions of Plate, Sheet, 24 Broadway, New York City. | apd Gasometer Iron. Special attention to Locomotive .ron. Fire Box Iron a specialty. Iron & Steel. ROME MERCHANT IRON MILLS, Aa el" dneteemnit dine ieee a ee. a ) grade of COMMON & REFINED IRON, Bar Iron, Bands and Fine Hoops. Hoops, Rods, Scrolls, Bands, Ovals, Horse Bio y ree Also trpen Charcosl rooul Pig-« supe Horse Shoe, Nall Hods, diced of Iron branded J. a. neti pudd BO LE p 7 LATE OF EAMPENTER, oof Agents sa HARRISON&GILLOON METAL DEALERS) sreex prares, at devcriptions Steel, &c, Siréet, New Work, New Vo In the Large cities throughout ' ' IRON AND METAL DEALERS, Cut Nails and Spikes, Plate and Sheet Orders promptly filled from stock. FOX & FOX & DRUMMOND sh sho oe Waren at. & oe, 6 cuERRY ot./ THE UNITED STATES. lron, all descriptions, j A B E E i. 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REFINED” age ee , «|WATSON IRON WORKS.|80nnell, Botsford & Co., 68 WALL STREET, - NEW YORK. cS Marshall Lefferts & Co., 90 Bockman St., New York City, MANUFACTURERS OF Galvanized Sheet Iron, Pest dee ape came Refined and Common, elegraph and reo! edging Bar tron. Hoop” tnd “Bana n, Galvanised Rod yon. Galvanised Nails, CORRUGATED SHEET IRON LIGHT GRAY IRON CASTINGS 66 ye : Burden Best” |Metat Pattern Making Bridgeport, Conn. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. CORRUGATED AND crimPEeD IRON; MANN & JONES, Ir on ROOFING & SIDING, | 4 Hanover St., New York, Iron Buildings, Roojs, Bhylights, Bridges, eo.” GENERAL IRON BROKERS MOSELEY IRON BRIDGE AND ROOF Co., COMMON & NORWAY IRON N STEEL OF ALL KINDS. A. R. WHITNEY & CO., Manufacturers ot and Dealers in lron, Nails & Spikes, Manufacturing [rou Used in the Con- struction of Fire-Proof Buildings, Bridges, &c. wine for Carn Bros. & Co., Limited, ht Iron er and 1 tron. Stake n Co., Boiler Plate aud Tonk Iron. Nor- way Steel and Iron hyo Ho eous Steel For Roofing, &., Galvanized, Plain or Painted Tube Works, iler Flues. A. M. ."3| Best Charcoal, Best Refined and Common Byers ee eee ee meee 3 Wire Box SHEET IRON. Nelle Altoo Plate and Tank Iron, Pape Seats Se. Ress Iron Works, = CH No, 1 Flange, Best Flange, wcrip- | OMe. 0 BG. u OB No ’ And Commission Merchants. W. S. MIDDLETON, Broker in Machinery & Iron t for FORSTER’S CRUSHER . _PULVERIZER, The Boiler Rivets. The Burden Iron Company Troy, N. Y. 7810 OreRV ES tion. Boom ca cu fron on application ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF aliale ees Siem Fie Or, cae For Bars, Plates, Sheets & Ro: ‘JNO. J. SHIPHERD, on tor ani St. oN. ¥. Iron Work Galvanized or Tinned to Order. Price list and quotations sent upon application. JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO., SCOTCH AND AMERICAN EGLESTON BROS. & CO.,| of Douvie Extra Quality tron. /iNVESTMENT BANKER, NONE BUT CHOICEST MATERIAL USED. 166 South Street, t NEW YORK CITY>” Teton 267 Front Street, CANTON BLOOMARY CO. CLEVELAND, OHIO. RDEN’ BU Ss Collinsville, Conn. _ Correspondence solicited. P I G I R O N, H. B. & S. waka, ieav 03 N. M. HOGLUND’S SONS & CO., Stockholm. No. 69 Wall St., New York. No. 67 Liberty St.,. NEW YORK. Swedish & Norway. lron aXe ULSTER BAR PRON, | Azents NASHUA, IRON AND STEEL ‘co, enema OLIVE TYRES. HOMOGENEOUS ipestelige Importation wa orders” BORDEN & LOVELL, Commission Merchants 70 & 71 West St., Wy cosets — New York. Lake Gente’ Iron ion Sing Stocks, a ——_ nr Agents for the sale of STEEL M RES. STEEL BO LATES IRON AND STEBL AXLES, | GUSTAF LUNDBERG, 3 Kilby st., Bor ’ ULSTER IRON WORKS All sizes and shapes in stock. sTReL boul PLATES 1hu SLIDES, & 93 y &., Boston Fall River lron Co.’s Nails, : Also Best Grades of IRON AND STEEL LOCOMOTIVE FORGINGS, | mALPERT POTTS, Philadelphia agent, 234 & 296 N. Bands, Hoops & Rods. 90 Broadway, New York. AND Am. & Eng. Ref’d lron,Common lron,&c} 2, a | GLENGARNOCK AND CARNBROE SCOTCH PIG IRON VOUGHT & WILLIAMS, For spot delivery and for prompt or forward shipments to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, 288 Greenwich Street, Baltimore or New Orleans. For sale in lots to suit by NEW YORK, JAMES LEE & CO., Sole Agents for the United States. Dealers in 72 Pine Street, NEW YORK. 101 Milk Street, BOSTON, MASS, ire rin oe Ua ian - TOOL siete. remnant Pa Po EINE sHEET "IRONS, ALL BRANDS OF HORSE NAILS, Gastinse’ Gad Hesiod, Show Cond, Simapinn, 300 Eeey, Potlunes, motes Reece een? orse Shoes, Rasps and Files, NATURAL GAS USED AS FUEL. Bellows, Anvils, Vises, Blowers, Tire Benders, OFFICH, No, 143 First Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. WORKS, Leechburg, Pa. eee ee ee Ea a Hammers, Bledges, Crow Bars, CHARLES HUBBARD, | * Sheridan” & * Leesport”? Brands Pig Iron B. FF. JUDSON, WHITE IRON (Anthracite & Bessemer) Stock for Making Strong Castings. . Importer of and Dealer in “CHARCOAL” PIG IRON “MAIDEN CREEK” and “GARRICK” BRANDS. SCOTCH AND AMERICAN FAVORITE BRANDS OF SCOTCH PIC, IN STOCK AND TO ARRIVE. Pie Iron, Old Car Wheels, Best Brands. 46 Cig Strect, New York City. Wrought & Cast Scrap Iron, JANIE:S FOSS, ND FURNACE AGENT FO Ss pup METALS. SCOTCH AND AMERICAN PIG IRON. #455 soum ses} NEW YORK. MANUFACTURERS" A Bar Iron, Car Wheels, Axles, Rails. oe "Railroad Supplies. = : SOLE AGENT po Rolling Mil|WHITAKER IRON COMPANY SHEET “IRON,” TANK AND FIRE BED, J. LEONARD, 36 DEARBORN STREET, a 445 to 451 West St, 177&179 Bank St., Jas Scaloan Pale: NEW YORK, Se THE JERSEY cITy GALVANIZING Co., HORSE SHOE IRON,| GALVANIZED MATERIAL OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. ALVANIZING IN ALL ITS BRANC Toe Calk Steel, Galvanized Sheet a Bloom, Best_Kefined, Common. Galvanized "Round, Square Band anc Rods, Ovals, Half Ovals and Flats. Hoop Iron, &¢., &e. Borden Mining Company’s Cumberland Coals. WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., [RON MERCHANTS Cor. Albany & Washington Sts. yaw TORE CITT. $f Gaia Wass, Woes teehee Wu. BH. Watlace Wm Susreay. . DANIEL W. RICHARDS & CO, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC SCRAP IRON, RAILS, STEEL AND METALS. Yards and Office, 88 to 96 Mangin St., NEW YORK. Morrow B. Sutra. Tuckerman, Mulligan & Co CARMICHAEL & EMMENS 1390, 132 & 134 Cedar St, New York, and Nos, 21, 23, os &'27 West Lake 8t., Chicago, Il. IRON AND STEEL BOILER PLATE. Lap-Welded Boiler Tubes, &c. he. Dawg. W. Ricnarvs. —— PASSAIC ROLLING MILL CO.,, Manufacture and bave always in stock ROLLED IRON BEAMS, Channels, Angles, Tees, Merchant Bars, Riweted Work, Forg ings, Eye Bars, &c. PATERSON, N. J. Room 45, Astor House, New York, CUT NAILS, Hot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers, “ho DOVER IRON CO. BOIL EF Ri V ET's, All Sizes All Gauges B il B Ja S Socket Bolt g DANIEL F. COON EY, of Corrugation and oo FIRGS ee s 6. BOILER “PLATES AND SHEET IRON, ~- a WELDED BOILER FLUES, 2% to 5 inches. of Sheets. Boller I Hiveto Angle & T Iron, Cut Nails & Spikes. FULLER BROTHERS & CO. 139 Greenwich Street, New York. Agency for Glasgow Iron Co., Jos, L. Bailey & Co., ks, Pipe an and Tube Go, Albany 2 Reus ‘iron & Peaches Corrugated Sheet Iron Specialty, Galvanized, Black and Painted. Iroi Corrugated for the Trade and Fire box Plates. WORKS, @REEN AND BAY STREETS, JERSEY CITY, N, J, OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE, 98 JOHN STREET NEW YORK, September 21, 189. Sept. 9th, 1873; Uct. 6th, 1874; Jan. 11, 1676. STEEL TOE CALKS. — i » 1882. KS, teel rE ions, Sheet urgh, he ited, ton September 21, 1882. Siemens’ Regenerative GAS FURNACE. RICHMOND & POTTS, 119 8. Fourth St-. PHILADELPSIA, PA. HENRY LEVIS & CO., Manufacturers’ Agents For Iron and Steel Rails, Car Wheels, Boiler and Bheet “a and General Railway Old Rails, Axles, on a Wheels’ bought and sold. 234 8. 4th St., Philadelphia. Edward J. Etting, TRON BROKER snp COMMISSION MERCHANT, 222 8. Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. Pig, Bar and Railroad Iron. 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, vances made en Iron. The Cambria Iron and Steel Works, |x:csseceszsittm Having enjoyed for over TWENTY-FIVE YEARS the reputation of producing the best quality of RAILS, have now an annua! capacity of 930,000 Tons of Iron and Steel Rails, Splice Bars, &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 St., 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, and all kinds of Iron Framing used in the construction of Fire Proof Buildings, PATENT WROUGHT IRON COLUMNS, WELDLESS EYE BARS, and built up shapes for Iron Bridges, REFINED BAR, SHAFTING, and 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 & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Patent Planished, Galvanized, Common, Best Refined, Cleaned and Charcoal Bicom PLATE cé& SHEET IRON. No. 519 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. for Corrugated, Gasholder, Pan and Elbow, Water Pipe, Smoke Stack, Tank and Boat iron ; Last, Stamping, Ferruie, Locomotive Headlight and Jacket Iron.” peat iron —e Lamping, Ferrule, Locomotive Headlight and Jacket Iron.’ I AE ARB OE JAS. ROWLAND & CO, Kensington Iron, = & Nail Works, PENCOYD IRON WORKS. A. & P. ROBERTS & co. 71 4 Manufacturers of the ANVIL BRAND REFINED MERCHANT BAR IRON. Also, the James Rowland & Co. Kensington > en cut from thelr Refined Anvil stock. Also, Plow and Cultivator Steel; Skelp Iron @ Specialty; also Rounds, Squares, Flats, Bands and Hoop Iron. Manufacturers of ‘Le CAR AXLES. BAR, ANGLE, TEE AND CHANNEL IRON. Office, No, 265 S. Fourth St., Philadelphia, Agents for the sale of Glamorgan Pig Iron. J. W. PAXSON cw CO., DEALERS IN MOULDING SAND, oat North Delaware Avenue, PHILADELPHIA, PA., MANUFACTURERS X MINERAL, CHARCOAL FACING LEAD FACING, xx MINERAL, ANTHRACITE wecene, RIDDLES, SHOVELS, IXL FACING, SOAPSTONE, STEEL BRUSHES, Manufacturers of Rails, Bars, Axles, Shafting, Fish Bars (Plain and Angle), Spikes, Rivets, Bolts and Nuts, &c. Bridges and Turn Tables. General Office, 237 South Third St., Philadelphia. Works at Allentown, Pa. JAMES ©, 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, Metals and Alloys of all kinds. A special department for the ANALYSIS OF IRON AND STEEL, Bitte 4 with all the apparatus and appliances for the rapid and accurate analysis of a Steel, Iron Ores, Slags, Limestones. Coals. Clays, Fire Sands &c, Agents for sampling ores in New York and “a'timmore. Price lists on application. CHEMICALS AND APPARATUS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ORES, IRON, STEEL, FUEL, FLUXES, FURNACE GASES, &e., Our Specialty. Being direct Importers and Manufacturers we can offer superior inducements, EIMER & SS | Nos, 205 to 211 Third Avenue. NEW YORK, Eighteenth Street Station Elevated R, R. Illustrated Catalogue Matled an Application, Established 1837. A. salar dl & SON, Scrap Iron, Metals and Machinery Cor. South and Penn Sts., Philadelphia, Offer for sale in 1 or email lote, quantities to suit, Old Machin ery, Red Sera: Brass (selected). Old heavy Yellow Serap Grose, Tas ingot Wad t Brass (best qua! ity), Ingot Yellow Brass, Ingot Gun Metal made strictly from from old cannon. D.