Show V VALUABLE DISCOVER Y to t California Man Smelts Steel From Iron Ore With Oil San Francisco Chronicle John Potter one time and steelworker for Andrew Carnegie no noa now nowa a of Los Log Angeles has discovered discovered ered a new process for fOl the production of stool By the magic ot of the oil blast he has evolved a smelter which brings a stream or of molten molton steel from a furnace filled with iron ore such as the California hills pro produce produce duce This Is the most step ever m made de In the production of any metal In inthe the tho United States If not In the would Behind It lies more than a quarter ot of a century of oC patient experimenting some sometimes sometimes times with a grain of success more often with nothing but uma unvarying failure star starIng staring Ing him In the face And now he Is I writing the second chapter In the his I torY story of th uI in metal t onearth eart l z metal whose beginnings date d to from the coming to the tho new world of those few European and who made mado the foundations for the Carnegie Carneg e and the Schwab and the Frick and the Corey millions His chapter Is already well begun it lies Hes in a 8 Ingot and other products of steel down In a dingy little laboratory at the plant or of the California IndustrIal company on Fourth street In this eft city It Is a ver very ordinary accumulation of to all appearances but a very mar marvel vel Inasmuch as It Is the only similar pile In the tho world It has never seen Beeh the outside of CalifornIa The Tho or from which it was smelted came cam from low grade deposits of Iron In San Bernardino and other ther nearby counties of southern California The oil used j in smelting it i iwas was produced right here In the state It Is black stuff of perhaps 14 degrees gravity good for little save savo burning beneath boilers and similar poor poorly poorly ly paid uses until Potter got hold or of It But the most wonderful thing about I this o of pure i tre st steel el be told The Jho never remains to coal conI or the Inside ot of a blast sow saw Co coke lr r never went through a Bessemer verter or open hearth con n process In its tact fact production quite upset all 81 the old modes hitherto in th the production of similar lumps or of steel yet ct It is good steel no better com An 1 the smelters or of from Erie Erie from from Youngstown Or orthis this Is enough to make any steel sit up and take notice But It is 18 quite enough for the layman not Mt in the Wf of blast furnaces and aDd mills for him there must he be huge e roiling Foiling Ings and vast Yost volumes ot of smoke from tall chimneys s the tho red light roiling or of th open furnace doors painting the skY a deep crimson elso ele there can ean evening be rc reality mr to the steel works ot of his dream dr a to o |