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Show COKLXG A Sl'CCESS, SILVER iiriOS. AlU'LV ITE3IISC- iV:U" rnocrss to jrox COUNTY COAL. Deseret yews. There was a severe test put upon die Iron county coal bv the Hemingway process yesterday afternoon at Silver Bros.' foundry, and it was again demonstrated dem-onstrated that that product cau be successfully suc-cessfully coked, and that one more great industry that is destined to help mako'this one of the richest Slates in the world, is on the evo of awakening. Brigham Young and C. H. Kraft, as was announced in the ''News," returned re-turned from Chicago some time ago, and ever since they have been awaiting an opportunity to show the people of Utah that their experiments in the East have swept away the only barrier that has stood in the way of the development develop-ment of tho great coal deposits in Utah, and that now may be launched one of the greatest industries in the United States. Although it was known that vast deposits de-posits of coal existed in Southern Utah, it was supposed to bo valueless, so far as its uses for smelting purposes were concerned. Many attempts tc coke the coal in the usual way were made, but they were unsuccessful. Messrs. Kraft and Young were confident that the difficulty diffi-culty could be overcome, and hundreds of dollars were spent in making experiments. experi-ments. They met with failure every time, until at their own expense, they shipped to Chicago a carload of coal and a large quantity of iron ore, taken from near Cedar City. The coal was taken to the Hemingway ovens, in South Chicago, which are owned by the Leiters, and after a number of tests it was clearly proved that tho Iron county coal can be successfully coked. It was used in the reduction of the ore and in the smelting of iron with satisfactory results. re-sults. Some of the product w as shipped back to Utah and yesterday afternoon it was subjected to another test in the melting melt-ing of iron ore. A cupola charged with 150 pounds of coal as a bed, on which a charge of 300 pounds of iron and then a charge of 50 pounds of coke was placed, continuing in this way until a cast of 1,500 pounds was run off. About twenty minutes after the blowers were turned on, the molten iron was run off into moulds and converted into castings. Joseph A. and Hyrum A. Silver conducted con-ducted the test, and they said they were perfectly satisfied with the result. re-sult. They stated the coke was freer from sulphur than the Pittsburg product, prod-uct, which is used at the foundry every day. Coke containing sulphur is very objectionable, because the sulphur i.s absorbed by the iron, causing it to lose its textile strength, becoming too brittle for general use. A casting was cut into two parts, showing the metal to be open grain and soft, which was one proof that the coke contained compar-itively compar-itively no sulphur, The test was witnessed by Colonel S. B. Milner, George W. Small, Ben Hampton, C. H. Croft, Brigham Young, J. R. Walker, Joseph A. Silver, Hyrum Silver, W. J. Silver, J. K. Walker, Jr., S. V. Shelp, Colonel A. C. Ellis, It. B. Dear, B. S. Young, A. S. Lerch and a few others. Messrs. Dear and Lerch are skilled metallurgists and having had years of experience in the Lake Superior iron mine's. Both the gentlemen were highly high-ly pleased with the result of the test, and expressed the opinion that there was nothing standing in the way of the building np of an immense irou industry in-dustry in the State, Those gentlemen arc associated with Colonel Milner in twenty-one claims in the Piute district, and have made minute examination of tiie ground. In many respects they say, the ore is superior in quality to the Lake Superior product. Mr. W. J. Silver, who has the distinction distinc-tion of being the first man in Utah to establish an iron foundry, was as highly pleased over the developments as any man present. He built the first steam engine manufactured manu-factured in Utah, and many years ago built the first pumps used in the Ontario On-tario mine, out of Iron county product, which he affirms is much better than that coining from Pennsylvania. |