Show AMERICAN 1 american of iran and deteel have been within the past two hearp reaching out to all parts of the world for trade and have cess fully with all europe this remarkable sa on the art of the iron men of this country has been made possible by virtue of our great natural resources and the mechanical ingenuity of american workmen bat while the americans have made great reee in mechanical taft bundling of crude and manufactured materials and reduce the labor cost to a minimum as compared with european iron workers the european are still able to teach the americans a lesson in the utilization ol 01 the byproducts by products obtainable the the conversion of the raw materials into the manufactured article the engineering gi and mining journal says the most important element of saving in european practice is found in the use of the product byproduct by coke oven which is almost universal in germany and is gradually making its way in england tn scotland where the majority of the furnaces use raw coal and not coke for fuel plants are found at a number of the iron works where the gases escaping from the furnace ore treated for the purpose of caving the ammonia sul phae tar bcd ether chemical products while the purified gas is used for fuel in bailers in Germ tiny and in some parts of france the slag from the furnace is found of value for various purposes in the former country large quantities of it are used for making bricks for roads and similar purposes and new applications for this material are constantly being found in this country such are still comparatively rare one of the latest applications of a byproduct by product is foun d at the cockerill Coo kerill wo ks at seraing in belgium Belei um where the avasts gas from a blast furnace has been tor a year past used experimentally to run a gas engine this has proved so successful though coke is used for fuel in the furnace that the company is now putting up two more gas engines of horsepower horse power each and anticipates iu time supplying a larget part of its motive power from this source blast furnace gas has also been recently utilized in the bame way in great britain by james riley the well known engineering and mining journal further already compete in price with europe in iron and deteel how certain ie our control of the worlds market and how greatly this will increase our own prosperity when we utilize what we are now throwing away things that are the chief sources of profit to our rivals america ie destined to play the important part in the iron world of the future that england has held for years when economy is practiced in this country as in europe byproducts 0 the blast furnaces utilized no country will be able to successfully compete with h er |