Daily Wabash Express, Volume 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 July 1870 — Page 4
DAILY EXPRESS.
TEKKE-IIALTE, IKD.
Saturday Morninp. July 30th, 1870.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
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LEAVE. Short Line Route. ARRIVE. 5.50 A.M .j-.Fast Line 9:00 A. M. 2:
4:05 P. M. 1:15 A.M.
:50 p'. M...'.V.'.Zi)ay Express 10:25 p. .Night Exprca INDIANAPOLIS iSc 8T. LOUIS RAILROAD. Arrives from East. Departs for_ West. 6:20 A. M...J .FastExpress 6 2t a. m. 10:10 A. -Day Express .10.15 A. M. 10:20P.M Night Express 10.25P- M.
From the West. For the East. 4:01 P. Day Express 4 :05 P. M. 8:25 A. Accommodation j.jy a. 1:10 A. Lightning Express 1 :lo A. M.
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WEEKLY MAILS.
Ashboro via. Christy's Prairie—
Closes Fridays at 9 p.m Opens Fridays at 3 p. in
Eastern mails closes on Sunday's at 6 Office opens during the week for sale, ot Stamps Money Order business, &c., from
a'On'SundaysPopen
from 8 a. m. to 9 a. in.
No Money Order business transacted on Sunday. L. A.
BURNETT.
P. M.
The City and Vicinity.
Creeps to-day.
Doa DAYS proper begin one week from
to-day. I i'! it 1 HON. NELSON TIUTSLER, spoke at Rose-
ville yesterday.
WORiTon~the Providence Hospital has
been recommenced.
DOOLEY favors us with Turn/ kcitunlay
for August Gtli.
Bic. THINGS.—The circus and meeting of the Democratic Central Committee to
day.
BOYS who go swimming on Sunday sometimes get di'owned. Stay away from the river to-morrow.
HUNDREDS of head3 of lamilies of both sex will go the show this afternoon "just to please the children'."
REV. W. W. CUUUY will prcacli at the
Universalis! Church to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, on the Dogma of In 1':« 11iI11 i'.
THE night train ea4 oh the Terre Haute ami Indianapolis R-.ul and leaves :it 1:0a instead of 1:25 A. M. a heretofore.
A. m.
THE woolen mills ol this city, city will
specimens of. their manufacture to the great Textrile Fabric Exhibition a.t Indianapolis next week.
DEAL gently with cucumbers, for know not of the power with which the horrid "gripes1' will came at some wl midnight hour.
MAJOK EVANS, Auditor of State, was in the city yesterday. lie has been spending .several days in I'arke, and bring) a good report of political affair-! in that county.
A MATCH GAME of Base Bail will be
played this forenoon, between the Resolute, Jr., and second nine of the Vigos, on the grounds of the latter, west of
L'nion Depot.
CHANGING the language of a e?lract,so a3 to make it mean just what the wntci never intended, and the commenting on the article thus fixe Up byforyery, is a style of journalistic "enterprise" recently introduced into this city.
THE funeral of Mary Harrison Cornwell, daughter of Darwin B. and Anna C. Otis, will take place this afternoon at fonto'clock from the residence of Mrs. B. II. Cornwell, South Fifth street. The friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend.
KJUINSON' CIRCI'S travels by rail, and therefore the horse* and performers appear fresh at each exhibition and not tired and jaded for want of sleep and re-t as is the case with mo«it travelling shows. The press wherever the exhibition has appeared this season speak in the highest terms of the performance.
B. B. TYLEE will preach at the Christian Chapel, on Mulberry street, to-mor-row at 11 o'clock A. M., on The Sacraments of the Christian Church,
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and at
S P. JI., by request, on "The Existence OF God." All are cordially invited. Sunday School at 9:30 A. M. If the children and their parents will be present to-morrow morning vliev will hear something unusually good.
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. —We learn that on Thursday morning last Mr. John I'rice. a well known citizen of Sullivan county,attempted suicide by hanging himself in a bain. The rope slipped and he came near dying by .strangulation, when he was cut down bv some of tiie family attracted by the noise. His wife died in April last, and opposition on the part of his relatives to a second marriage, is said lo have caused him to attempt the act.
MOKE THIEVING.—Yesterday morning a watch and chain were stolen from the residence of Mr. E. ilul.lt, in the iear of Moiart Hall. \esleiday evening a young man named Stewart, about eighteen year. of age, and a boy were arrested and lodged in jail, charged with committing the theft. Two other boys are said to be engaged in the transaction.
The same parties robbed a man who was bathing in the liver, the night previous, ot some thirty dollars in money. Eleven dollar? ol this money and the watch and chain have been recovered.
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THE IRON INTEREST!
Fruits of the Block Coal Fields!
VIGO IRON COMPANY'S FLRXACE
COMPLETED AHD READY TO BLOW IN!
Pull and Accurate "Description of a Great Work Well Done
O W W A 8 A E
WHAT IX WILL ro
Other Enterprises Contemplated!
The blast furnace of the Vigo Iron Company has just been completed and is ready to "blow in" whenever it can do so without ri.-k of interruption in its supply of coal. This is the first work *f the kind ever established in this county, and is intended to demonstrate the practicability of making pig iron, at.this point, in profitable competition with localities at which this important branch of our industrial interests has been prosecuted for some years. The inauguration of an enterprise so important in its probable results, an enterprise which, if successful, will prove but the pioner of many similar works, demands more than a passing notice more than the brief mention we have made from time to time during the past ten months. This furnace, as well as those in Clay county, is but the legitimate product or outgrowth Of
INDIANA COAL FIELD?.
It is only a few years since the existence of coal in Indiana was determined, aDd it is but a foW months, comparatively, since the use of Indiana coal was but very limited. The growing importance of the subject has now called attention to it, and there i3 hardly a county in the State having coal beds in which their extent and character have not been pretty nearly ascertained. The coal measures of this State cover about eight thousand square miles, and in value and variety will compare very well with those of any other State. They are located in tlie Western part of the State, sweeping in a belt from the Ohio river to the Wabash, and embracing quite a number of counties. A line drawn from Leavenworth, on the Ohio,to Mitchell, and then following the line of the New Albany & Chicago Railroad to the northern part of Montgomery county, and then turning west to Danville, Illinois, will take in all the coal lands of the State. As yet, however, but a small portion of this territory has been developed. As new railroads are built and the country opened up, we may expect to see our coal interest becoming a verv important one. Already it has assumed atuagnitude which four years ago would have been considered amply commensurate for the labors of a quarter of a century. This has been entirely due to. lie discovery, in Clav county, of
IILOCK COAL.
What may .have caused the formation of this species of coal, or why, under ap
parently the same, circumstances,it should differ so much from other coal in the same field, is a question we shall leave for geologists to determine. Block coal is peculiar, from the fact that it is entirely free from sulphur, with which most bituminous coals are impregnated to a greater or less extent. It derives its name from the fact that it comes out in large blocks, and when broken, splits up in thin layers, or cake.-:. It is very much like charcoal,- and is equally free from cinders and clinkers, in the coal districts, the other varieties, which aie always found near it, are distinguished by the name «f "bituminouscoals," but this is an error, for the block coal contains as much
if not more bitumen than other varieties. Block coal is found in but few places in the United States, principally in the Che nango Valley, in Pennsylvania, the Mahoning Valley, in Ohio, and in Clay county, Indiana, and invariably lies to the northeast of other coals. Northeast of the block, no coal is ever iound. The
deposits in Clay county are the lurgest known, and^ although not inexhaustible, will suffice for all possible wants for a great many years.
WHAT MAKES IT VALUABLE
Above other kinds of coal is its freedom from sulphur and its consequent adaptability for iron working. The smallest portion of sulphur in coal is sufficient to prevent the making of good iron, and indeed it has only been a few years since it was thought impossible to smelt iron with
anything but charcoal. The introduction of hot blasts led to the use authracite coal, and about twenty years ago the Lowell furnace, situated near Youngs_ town, Ohio, in the Mahoning Vallev, first 9
tory,
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tried block coal in the manufacture of iron, and found that it answered the purpose just as well as coke, charcoal or authracite. A few months later the Sharon furnace was built in the Chenango valley, a few miles away, across in Pennsylvania, and was operated with block coal. It proved an immense success and is still in operation, and although a small furnace, averages a ton of excellent metal every hour. From the time the success of these furnaces was assured, and it was demonstrated beyond a doubt that block coal would make iron, there has been a constant increase in manufactures there, until now- both the valleys are lined with furnaces and iron mills, and coal lands' are held at enormously high figures. Im-men-e quantities arc also shipped to Cleveland and other points, and used for fuel, making gas, etc. The coal business of the railroads inteiested is really gigantic, as will be seen from the fact that over one branch road seven miles long and owned bv private parties, two thousand tons are moved daily. The Brazil coal is said to be just as good as any in those valleys, while the supply is much greater and persons from iliose regions have come into Clay county and bought up coal lands covering a va.^t_ area ot terri
HOW IT WAS DIECOVEKED.
Mr. John H. Holliday, in a valuable article written last eummer, for the Indianapolis Sentinel, and to which we are indebted for many of the above facte, states that to Samuel Strain, Esq., of Brazil, is due the honor of first directing attention to the block coal in Clay county. He was for many years a resident of the Chenango valley, and had had a great deal of experience in coal and iron. He came to the conclusion that block coal was not confined to that narrow limit in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and in order to ascertain the truth, he visited all the coal beds in the country, going to a number of States. He searched for
B^yeral years,
not find one until a miner, who had drifted out to the neighborhood of Brazil and was working in the old mines near Newburg, wrote to him, saying that he thought there were deposits of block coal in the county. Mr. Strain started from home immediately, and going to Newburg, examined the mines, but could find no block coal. Disheartened and disgusted, he started On his return home vowing that he would then and there abandon the search. Reaching Indianapolis, he found that an hour or two had to elapse before train time, and this he concluded to spend in visiting the rolling mill. While in the yard there he picked up a piece of the coal,his attention was att racted, lie examined further, and found the long sought for block coal. To learn where it came from, to go back to the depot, jump on a train and return to Brazil, to buy and lease a thousand or more acres of land, to fill a carpet bag with specimens and start for h'8me, did not require a great deal of time for Mr. Strain. He removed to Brazil immediately. Through his efforts the discovery was to a considerable extent. made known, foreign capital was attracted, and the development of the region commenced.
THEN AND NOW.
S (I a Is $125,000, most of. which has been paid in upon regular assessments, and has been expended in the purchase of a site and the erection of the company's works. The following is a list of the"i
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but could
The discovery was made but a little more than five years ago. For several years coal'rriining^iad been carried onto some extent in that county. Mines near Brazil were in operation, and considerable coal of the ordinary kind was Bold. The Indianapolis rolling mill lias also been using it. for a number of years, finding that, for heating purposes, it answered verv well But the demand for it was not very great.' "Indiana coal," as it was called, was considered rather below par, and the mining operations would probably never have amounted to much, had it not been for the discovery of block coal. At once the aspect of things changed: new mines were opened, labor was in de mand, and the population increased. Lands grew in value, blast furnaces were built, a rolling mill started, villages sprung up, until the country of to-day pinups are furnished by would hardly he recognized as the coun- Indianapolis try of even three years ago.
This sketch of discoveries and operations brings us properly to the organization of
THE VfKO IRON COMPANY
In which A. L. Crawford, Esq.—a prominent manufacturer and capitalist, residing at Newcastle, Pa., but having extensive iuterents in Indiana coal lands —was the prime mover. The
AKTIOfiES OF ASSOCIATION
Bitot- date of Aug. 21st. 1869^1eas than one year ago. The I CAPITA I. STOCK E
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STOCK-HOLDER*.
A. L. Crawford, New Castle, Pa. A.J.Crawford, vi J. J. M. Crawford, Philadelphia Pa. W. L. Scott, Erie, Pa. S. W. Phelps, Harmony, Ind. I 1). W. Minshall, Tecre Haute.'--! W. B. Tuell, I, Clias, Cruft, OwenTuller, Firman Nippert, AI es McQregor, ---j 8 9
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Demns Deming, Chauncey Rose, Preston llussey, .. II. Hulman, Seath, Hagar & Oilman, do.
DIRECTORS.
A. L. Cra\tfi!oyd: fJ-.'-M..Crawford A. J. Crawford '"S: -W. Plielps Chauncev Rose Alex McGregor D. W. Minshall.
OFFICERS.
President, A. L. Crawford. Secretary, A. J. Crawford. Treasurer, D. \V. Minshall. ,,, The ground,of the Company consufs cf thirteen acres on the line of the E. & C. Railroad, one and a quarter miles southeast of the Terre Haute. House. This large tract was purchased with a view to the erection of other works in connection with the furnace. A rolling mill, for the purpose of making railroad iron, is among the probabilities of the not distant future. Tliere will be abundant room for such an establishment, and any others that the Company, in its future operations, may deem it proper to erect.
On the 23d day of September, 1869, ground was broken for the erection of the blast furnace and the various buildings pertaining thereto, and from that time until the 29th insl. the Work wa* prosecuted. with energy under the efficient management of E. i». Sankey, Esq., ot New Castle Pennsylvania. And we mav as well say here, as elsewhere, that the Company was exceedingly fortunate in securing the services of so thoroughly competent and energetic a man as Mr. S. to superintend ihe construction of its works. He has made all the drafts, furnished all the plans and s(ecitications for the buildings and machinery, and given his personal attention to all the details of this difficult, intricate and expensive enterprise.
The number, .siz& "and material of the various structures are shown by this list of
BUILDINGS
Frame—Stock House..140x60 ........28 feet high. boiler ... 8o*30 -4 Scale ... 24
Elevator.- *4x20 75 Smith Shop.... 20xiH) 10 l'uuipflonae... llixlti........ 8
Brick—EXI'K House .. ODI33........l!ij CastHouse Iu2i42 Zi Hot Blast 37x13 21 Office-Frame 16x20—(only temporary)
AJ1 these buildings—except the office and hot blast—are covered with iron. The sides of the elevator are also covered with the same material, making an area of half an acre of iron roofing and siding.
MATERIAL USED.
Sheet Iron, (used in boilers. .. stack, tanks, blow ,'i pipes, &o.) 106,000 pounds. Roofinf Iron 49,000 R. R-i Iron (forside tracks) 54,000 Castings, about 350,000 Lumber—Pine 72,000 feet Lumber—Oak and Poplar 573,500—345,000 F'e Brick—Scioto, Pt'smt'h, O., 50,000
Shenango.N.C.Pa., 23,000 Lowell, Lowell. 0., 32.000 Bratil. Brazil. Ind..l03,500*-209.000
Rod Brick—Frpm T. 410,000 From Brazil .296,000—706,000 The Brazil Fire Brick were famished by W. H. Wiiglit, Brazil, Indiana.
The material obtained outside of this city alone has made over 200 car loads.. MACHINERY.
The machinery in the engine house consists of a large upright blast engine of 400-horse power, 31-inch steam cylinder, 72-inch blowing cylinder, 4-foot stroke, stands 23 feet high, weighs about 40 tons on each side has a fly-wheel 16 feet in diameter. This engine is used for blowing air through the hot blast into the furnace. It was built by Greenleaf & Co.» Indianapolis.
The Crusher Engine is also upright, resembling in appearance a decanter. It stands about 10 feet high, 12-inch cylinder, 20-inch stroke. Its purpose is to drive by a series of belts and pullies one of Blake's Patent Ore Crushers. This engine was also built by Greenleaf & Co., Indianapolis.
The Hoisting Engine i.4 a small, compact engine built by the Northwestern Manufacturing Company, of Chicago. It has two steam cylinders of 7-inch diameter and lOdnch, stroke. It is used for raising all material required for the furnace. It is automatic in its workings, opening and closing the valves as the platforms containing the material arrive in place. It is the first engine of its kind in use in any furnace in the country.
In addition to a force-pump attached to the large blast engine for supplying the boilers, there is one of A. S. Cameron's No. 4 Patent Steam Pumps used for pumping to the boilers the waste water from the tuyers which empties into a large brick cistern immediately under the elevator.
In the pump house, which stands about 20 feet north of the engine house, there are two of Knowl's No. 9 patent steam pumps built in Warren, Mass., capable of throwing 500 gallons per minute, each arranged to woPk either single or double they are located about 16 feet below the surface of the ground in a pit 16 feet pquare walled solidly with heavy timbers, and lift water 18 feet, discharging through a 0 inch pipe into a large iron cistern 1G feet long, 8 feet wide and 12 feet deep and having a cajiaciiv I0,2-r0 gallons— restinsr on iron girders belween the walls of the elevator and cast hou«c. From this ihe boilers and tuyers are kept con stantlv supplied with cold water. The enleaf & Co. lapolis.
The ore crusher located in the stock house, an immense iron frame, [weighing 11,0001b],containing a moveable jaw which breakn the largest and hardest pieces of ore into sizes adapted for smelting, and so arranged that ore can be unloaded right from the cars through it, thus preventing the necessity of a second handling. It was built bv Robinson, Rea & Co., Pittsburg.
The steam is made by four of Cliff & Son's large cylinder boilers, sixty feet long forty inches in diameter, arranged in pairs, to.allow for cleaning. The fire is expected to be supplied from the gas generated in the furnace stack and conveyed through airtight flues to the boilers, where it ignites immediately on receiving air. If the coal yields gas as is expected, the boiler will use but little, if any, coal or slack.
The boiler stock is II feet square at base forl2 feet high, thence round—inside flue feet in diameter. Total hi?hth 75 feet.
GETTING IN AND STORING STOCK. Two railroad tracks, each more than six hundred feet long, connecting with the E A C. Railroad on the south end, pass through the stock house, elevated on trestles from 6 to 14 feet high, from which coal and ore can be unloaded and piled up from 10 to 20 feet high, enabling the Company to stock a great quantity on the smallest space. The grade inclines to the south, and the loaded cars, being set in by an engine, are unloaded and then dropped out by their own weight. This arrangement ^f tracks reduces the expenses of unloading and crushing ore to a mere trifle.
The floor of the stock house is entirely covered with three-inch oak plank, also the stock yards for 85 f«et north and 100 feet south, making in all a space 325x60 feet, about one-fourth of an acre
THE HOT BTAST
is a large brick oven 37x13 feet, containing 64 large syphon pipes resting upright on eight huge bed pipes, through which the cold air is forced, traveling about 125 teei be ore passing out into the furnace. An intense lire, supplied also by gas, is kepi around tlie.-c pi pes,heating the air to a temperature of from seven to nine hundred degrees before passing through the tuvcis imo ihe furnace. It is arranged as a double oven, and by ine3ns of valves one-half can he shut off in case of accidents, which are liable to happen. Although the smallest building connected with the establishment, it may be called the costliest, having been constructed at an expense of not. less than $10,000. The material used in its construction consists of 100,000 red brick, 35,000 fire brick, 100 tons castings.
The roof of this hot biast i* a lire brick arch, nine inches thick, covered with red
brick laid in cement. THE STACK.
For the purpose of making additional I about S30 per ton.
waste or cinder room, the bottom of the hearth was raised about ten feet above the ground. The foundation consists of a circular brick wall, twenty-two feet in diameter, six feet thick on the bottom and three feet on the top—containing about fifty thousand brick. Upon this eight large iron column*, weighing one ton each, rest, supporting an immense
bh!t*«w4«Kli» Wlckruck. pro the shell or cu:»d. of the st.cl.Uith ,hl., great enterpria. Should i,
This shell is made of heavy boiler iron, and is eighteen feet in diameter on the bottom, which diameter it retains for eighteen feet in height, thence draws in to thirteen feet in diameter on the top. The whole stands about forty-two feet high, capped with a projecting platform, and connected with the elevator by an iron bridge. The stack stands in the cast house, its top passing up the roof. The inside lining is composed as follows: Four in. common Red Brick, next to sheel. Nine in.Fire Brick. Nine in. Loom Sand, to allow for expansion of brick* Fourteen in. of larger in-wall brick.
The last named brick were all made to order in shapes to suit the different diameters, and bevels, for turning flue arches, carrying jambs, Snaking about ten different shapes and sizes. This lining rests upon the large ring plates and was completed before the hearth and bosh were put in. -The bottom is commenced on clean sharp sand, thoroughly tamped, which is covercd with two layers of large fire brick, in all 8 inches deep: another layer of sand, as before, and finally 21 inches of Shenango fire brick. The hearth, resting upon this "bottom," is built of Shenango fire brick, made at Newcastle, and which have been tested as first-class. Its walls are 3J- feet thick, pierced at the height of 43 inches with 7 openiugs or tuver arches through which hot air from hot blast oven" is forced. An opening in front, larger and lower down, called the "neck," admits of working the furnace witli bars and for drawing off the cinder and iron at "casting time." The walls of the bosh" are much ilatter than those of the "hearth," preventing the stock from crowding into the hearth. SizeofHearth 6 ft. diameter. Size of "Bosh" 12 ft. Size of Tunnel Head 6 It. Highttrom bottom of Hearth to platform oo ftHlgbt from bottom of Foundation to top of Tunnel Head 74 ft.
PROCESS OF MAKING IRON. After ore has been crushed into proper size it is loaded into large iron wheelbarrows and carefully weighed, sometimes using one kind of ore entirely and at others using the different kinds in proportions according to the quality and kinds of iron wished tojje produced. In either case they are carefully"weighed upon scales having six beams and capable £f weighing as many different materials at the same draft. To this charge of ore, and upon the same barrow,is added limestone, which is also charged in quantity as the nature of the ores to be reduced changes, some requiring more, others less. A full charge consists of one barrow of coal and one of ore, Ac., loaded as above, These are wheeled on to the hoisting platforms and carried to the top, where they are taken by the "upper filler" and dumped in turn into three different openings or "filling pockets," which pierce the "Tunnel Head" at the level of the plat form. After the "furnace is filled once and running regularly, it will take about one hundred such charges every twelve hours. Stock is supposed to require about thirty-six hours in passing through, during which time it is being prepared until it reaches the '"Hearth," yhere the "blast" striking it reduces it to" a liquid state. At regular intervals of eight or twelve hours, as the case may be, the furnace is tapped and the iron drawn oft and run
From the same power used in crushing ore, the ore which may have been deposited as stock outside of the stock house, is--into beds moulded in thesand. These beds drawn up nn incline to the crusher platform, thence through the crusher on to the stock house floor, to he loaded here into barrows preparatory to being elevated to the tunnel head.*
are made by a series of rinall runners called the "pigs" leading off from one large one called the "sow." Hence the name "pig irou."
After the iron has been thus moulded, and while "red hot,1' the pigs are broken from the sow and, when coll, are carried off and weighed, being then ready for the market.
OPERATIVES.
The number of men employed to do this work is comparatively small. The following table showe their various duties: One Founder. Two Engineer.-. Two Keepers, duty to work furnace, watch tuyers and take charge at Two Helpers, casting time. Two Top
FilUers,
to
unload
Four Bottom Fillers, to load and weigh stock, Two Firemen, for boilers. Two "Iron Men," to break and carry out iron One Breaker of limestone. Six Laborers, general work, Four to six men to unload and crush ore and stock. In all from thirts to thirty-five men. be Superin-
A. J. Crawford, Esq., wi tendent of the Works. MISCELLANEOUS.
The shell of stack, the boilers, gas and air pipes, and all sheet iron work, exclusive of roofing, was done by Cliff S: Son, Terre Haute, amounting to over one hundred thousand pounds.
All the castings, many of which are of immense size, and all.of them making an enormous amount of work, were made by Seath, Hager & Oilman, Terre Hatiie.
The frame of the Cast House roof was made-by Wm. J. Ball & Co., Terre Haute. The gas-fitting was done by D. W. Watson, Terre Haute.
Barr&Geakle, of this city, painted the ron roofing. The red trick work was done by contract by Henry Fisher, of New Castle, Pa., and fire brick work bv days' work, J. ('. Reed, of Terre Haute, Foreman.
The carpenter work was done by days' work, A. Van Horn, Foreman. The capacity of this furnace will be from 25 to 28 tons of iron per day. With no bad luck it should .run from eighteen to twenty months before blowing out." The "raw material" to be used in making pig iron is as follows:
Iron Mountain ore, Missouri. Pilot Knob Merrimac ore (Red Hematite, Lake Superior ore, Michigan. Cale, Clay county. Limestone, Putnam county. About one hundred and twenty tons, or twelve car loads, of stock will be required daily, giving employment to a large number of miners in Missouri and Indiana and adding largely to the buiness of our railroad lines.
The ore will cost, upon an average, about ten dollars per ton. The manufactured article will sell for
The daily product will amount to $750 to $800. The monthly earnings of the employes %rill be not less than S3,500.
The operatives and, their families will add more than 125 persons to our industrial population.
CONCLUSION. ..
We have thus given, as concisely
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prove successful, aa^we believe it will, the company will soon erect another furnace in connection with this, which can be done at comparatively small cost, the present building having been erected with a view to the construction of an other stack. Let us hope that the "blowing in" of the firstjblast furnace in Vigo county will be an era from which we may date the rapidly accelerated progress of all our material interests.
A FEEBLE BOAST.—The EXPRESScame out yesterday morning with a feeble boast in regard to its daily circulation. We agree that the EXPRESS has a larger daily circulation than the Journal, but when all the editions of the two establishments are considered, that paper will be left so far in the shade that people will wonder at its brassy boldness in alluding to the matter at all. The EXPRESS parades the fact that its daily is twenty years old. The Journal is but six years old,-and yet our daily circulationt is fast approximating that of our cotemporary, and in
Short time we expect to be even
with and overcome all such ill-timed boasting Journal. Our feeble boast" was this
THE DAILY EXPRESS has more sub scribers than both the other Dailies of the city combined. The Journal does no pretend to deny this, and it matters little what anybody else says.
This was not stated in a boasting spirit, but as a mere matter of fact. There has been so much talk recently in regard to the circulation of the several newspapers in this city that almost every printer and even the carrier boys can tell within fifty copies of the circulation of each. This talk" enables us to state that the circulation of the DAILY EXPRESS exeecds that of the other dailies in this city, and the circulation in this city of the Cincinnati Commercial and Cincinnati Gazette, all combined. This fact, however, does not prevent us flom being gratified at the growing prosperity of our Democratic neighbor, whose circulation is now next in size to that of the EXPRESS. In fact the growing prosperity, and importance of the press of this city is a matter in which every citizen should take a just pride, as nothing else tends more to favorably impress the stranger than the live -appearance of the newspapers.
"J. LUDOWICI, Esq., Secy. Cricket B. B. C., Terre Haute, Ind. Sir: At the last regular meeting ot our Club, I was directed to challenge your Club to play us a match game of Base Ball at whatever time and place you may designate.
CHAS. S. VOORHEES,
,, Cor. Sect. Vigo B. B. C.
FREE LUNCH
at the Excelsior Sa
loon, on Third street, second door north of Main. Mock Turtle Soup and other delicate dishes will be served at 9 o'clock this evening.
Save Trouble
by buying a Print for
Marking Fruit Cans, at Henderson's, for 15 cents.
Extra Inducements
to buy your Soda
Water at P. O. Lobby are offered to-day. 48 Cash and Cigar Prizes to be paid as soon as drawn also a fine Knife to be given when all the tickets are sold.
New Frcncli Syrups
to dav verv fine.
at P. O. Lobby
Henderson'* Fruit Cans are the bestf, and cost' no more than others.
only 10 cents for a glass of
pure cold Soda, at P. O. Lobby, and a chance to draw a fine prize. The only place in the city to get imported syrups.
Dou't Fail to Try
and Orange Cram Syrup, at P. O. Lobby to-day. f*-r?
Save Trouble
Henderson's Fruit Cans are the Best,
and cost no more than others.
Special inducements
ttreaf Bargains in Hair Goods.— Ladies now is the time to purchase Hair Goods, as I am offering them at cost for one week previous to my entering my uew stor§, opposite my present stand, when I shall open out the largest and most choice stock of Hair (foods ever offered in this cit. --•JJ MRS. E. B. MESSMORE.
Fifth St. between Main and Ohio.
Our Prices
on Black Jewelry are far
below those of our competitors. HERZ & ARNOLD.
Who will have oue*.' Broiler, at Ball's.
Can I send one up?
Fans cheap enough at Riddle's.
Shade Cloths,
New
in new and beautiful
colors just arrived at Ryce's Carpet Hall.
Potatoes at
C. I. Ripley's.
Free Luuch eveiV morning.
at the Dexter Saloon 10-tf
Riddle for Table Castors.
Ladies, Misses and Children's
I
Main street.
IF YOL'
Want a Cook, -4 Want a Situation, Want a Salesman,
Millinery
Anisette Maraschino
by buying a Print for
Marking Fruit Cans, at Henderson's, for 15 cents.
Epicure and American Broilers. "The Gem" Flour and Saunce Sifter, Pre serving Kettles, Brass, Copper and Mas tin Fruit Cans, with cements and stamps, at satisfactory prices, at G.Goster Smith's 150 Main street.
will be given in
instruction, during the month of A at the Terre Haute Commercial College, Men of business, who desire a knowledge of Book Keeping and Penmanship, should take advantage of the opportunity. 29d-3.j
Never Too Late.—If you have not yet taken a Commercial Course, the opportunity is still given you, at the Terre Haute Commercial College. Regular term will open in September. Special term commences next Monday, August 1st. Rooms over Tuell, Ripley & Deming's, corner 5th and Main streets.
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Want a Servant Girl, Want to Rent a Store, r: Want to Sell a Piano, Want to Sell a House, Want to Sell a Patent. Want to Lend Money, Want to Buy a House. Want to Buy a Horse, Want to Rent a House. Want to Sell a Carriage, i'..f Want a Boarding Place, Want to Borrow Money,
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Want to Sell a House and Lot, Want to find any one's Address, -.••• WTant to find a Strayed Animal, Want to Sell a Piece of Furniture, Want to Buy a Second-hand Carriage, Want to find anything you have Lost, Want to lind an Owner /or anything Found, N
You can make your wants known to the readers of the EXPRESS, at only Tv. cntvFive cents a dav.
Good news for the 3T»i charts of
Terre Haute—TEKHE HAUTE TO BK
MADE A COMMON POINT rou ALL
FREIGHT RECEIVED AND FORWARDED.—
We are informed by Mr. Allen, Agent of
the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad,
that he has received instructions, from
and after this date, to make Terre Haute
a common point, and to pro rate on all
freight received, forwarded and issued
through bills of lading therefor.
Herz & Arnold Silk Fans.
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BLANK BOOKS of every dercription for city and county officers, manufactured at the Daily Express Bindery, in the very best and most substantial style by a competent and experienced binder and rulei. We have a full line of the best quality of blank book papers, and invite an inspection of the work we "re turning out.
beat the World on
Notice to Invalids.—The undersigned, who has had neveral year's experience as lying-in nurse, tenders her services to the ladies of Terre Haute to act in that capacity. Address personally or by letter, Catherine Lynott, Miller House, corner 4th and Eagle streets.^'
Panic-Struck Beauty.—It
goods
cheap.—rn
Buy your Corsets
The Epicure jy27-dwtf.
The National Cof
fee Pot. It is the best. Call and see, a a 4 5 2 7
order to
close out an immense stock of summer goods we will sell everything in our line at greatly reduced prices. Bonnets, hats, and ribbons of the latest styles lower than the same quality of goods have ever been sold before the war at
S. L. STRAUS & Co.'s,
j20 149 Main st. bet. 5th and 6th
SEWER
PIPE.—We hayo three inch
stone Sewer Pipe, straight pieces and el bows. Contractors and parties building should see it. JONES & JONES. 23-dtf.
Go to S. K. Freeman and get a pair of Lazarus & Morris perfected Spectacles. He keeps also the lower grade- besides and vou can be suited.,
Removal.—Mrs.
A. Ritterkamp has
removed lier liair-dressjng shop to the corner of 4th and Main streets, over Warren, Hoberg & Co.'s store.
Frank Crawford
has a full
line of —blue,
Misses colored Boots—lis to 1' green, quier, purple and bronze.
Riddle
for Neck Chains.
Mrs. N.—Oh,
I
how dreadful hot it is.
Mrs. K.—Yes, madam, it is very warm, but
feel rather comfortable. Mrs. N.'—Is it possible? And how do you manage that'.'
Mrs. K.—I use one of Herz & Arnold's Fans, they are the best and cheapest in the city. *,
Riddle
R. GARVIN, Principal.
for Variety Goods. -£j
of Riddle.
Carriage Oil Cloths,
Cory, DeFrces fc Co.
THE Terre Haute Commercial College will open on Monday next, August 1st A reduction will be made to all who enter during the first week of the school. Teachers and others^desiring a course of instruction before the regular term in
September, can procure their scholarships
at reduced rates, to enter the special term
White and Checked Mattings, all widths and at very low prices, at Ryce's Carpet Hall.
New Braids at Herz & Arnold'
John P. Webber,
Maria
Antoinette Slippers, steel buckle and
wholesale and re
tail dealer in Fish, South Fourth street, North of Market House, Terre Haute, Indiana. jy26-d lw. -1
LIST OF LETTERS
KE«AIMX« IX THE POST OFFK on Saturday, July 30, 1S70. Persons calling for these letters will jiloast say nHrrrtincd niid give dato of tho list.
I.ADIKS LIST.
Alexander mij.s Lorenz Caroline Anderson mrs \V It Link mrs E E Burnett miss Mary Logan mrs Oarrett Burkhiius mrs Anna Mahan mrs W Clark Josephine McKey miss Mollio Chambers miss AlvinaMofombs mrs Jessie I Crawford Mary Jano McKinzie Rachel A Carrody miss Motley McKinney mrs Boherty mrs Matty Morris miss Lizzie Davis mrs Betsey .Moss miss Margaret l-lvans miss Jennie Overhnltz Flora A Farlo"" mrs Parsons Jennctte 12 Kiirrell mrs Eliza IMtiford mrs Freed miss Isabel! 1'inckney Mary J-'crrWl mrs MaryS Rea mrs Kate Graves mrs Emelino Kcod mrs Jane Gordon niis= Cass* Hec tor Lizzie 5 Grubnugh miss JennieRidncr inias Lizzie Hall miss Susie Robinson inta* SusacI Hammond mi-s AlvinnUowen mrs Rebecca
Harrison Lizzi Ingram Mary F. Jnrk'Jir.o Mary A .Tohnson I'annie E Johnson mrs Lizzio Jones miss Lizzio Le.vermiss Rebecca Liuie miss Annie Leo Mary Leo Clurinda
Rockwell miss ttoliinson Sarah l'litfuer mrs 1' Salters miss Luc 2 Sayers mrs Melissa Scbring mrs S A Sears miss Sherman Nancy Sherman miss
CESTLEMEN'S LIST. Kramer Albert Karst
Arnc Or Arket Levi Baxter]) Rarlwr Joseph liarger Columbm Uaker Wm A & Bnrkshiro Kerry Bell A Britten lsiddlo Androw l'rcsco Xen Bost Vi' liouiig Jomes Bouoian Freedolln Boyle 0 Bushiiell Jos Campbell W Chnvis Henry Caliilt Thomas Clark James 2 Cou'-tright W Collins Jay Crogham Patrick Coowee Pat Churcbliill Darby John Dawes Benjamin Davis Denton Wm Dick James Dildino ltiehard A Dodson East Cornel'iis 2 Ksait Geo A Karnell W W Evans Evinger Fletcher (.'apt Fritscklc Theodore Foreman A
Kuency Darby Lauwell David 2 LneountDR Laty Hcrich Littlo Wm A Little Wm Martin Joseph Miller LB Mobley 1, Moore James Met'a he 1» :iell Win Xonahan peter Uberempt Robert O'Brien Daniel O'Brien Davo O'llonnell Juntos O'itiley l'hillip Piereo Jolm Poe Bcynolds Jus Reeves Elias Head John lUsieyBF Kichards John KossmonJiisE Itobinson Goo Sinallwood Abram Shcwmaker I) ShfcwmakerJM Shears George f. Smith W Smith John W Smith Heart Smith Stilwell Schoolcraft Luke Scholield Thos Stone Lewis Sutherland E Sullivafi Thomas Tate Henry Taylor Zark 'l'errell A TrindleJohn Thompson A .1 I'tter 2 Walls W Waldon S Ward W E Webster Jas It Jr Wethers Robert Whiteouib John Wiggnn John Whitiker 1 •*'. Williams li Williams W Williams Wesley Wilson I) Woesner Richard it Woodall Robert Woodhead Josephs L. A. BURNETT, P. M.
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Flouier'eet A Grace John Garner E E Gallimorc W Gregg George Gosney Good Frank Gulick Jnine"-.! lfaller IIahnLewis2 Hartley Jame-1-' Hartley Hill James Hickman Gafin Hodges A Hubbell Stephen Hutton Thomti1Hission Demi-* 2 Ingram John Johnson Isaac N Johnson Wm 1) John Wm Johnson E I'.
is a terri-
bie shock to a charming woman—indeed, to any woman, to find that her teeth, are beginning to go." Never will any human being who uses the fragrant Sozodon't make that discovery,
Spalding's Glue," no well-regulated family will be without it. deodlw
$1,000 ltewavd vrill be paid by the proprietor of Dr. Pierce's Alt. Ext. or Golden Medical Discovery for a medicine that will equal it in curing all the dis
eases for which it is recommended. In the cure of severe and lingering Coughs, Bronchitis and diseases of the lungs and as a blood purifier and strengthening medicine it can not be too highly recommended. It acts promptly upon the liver, removing torpor or ''Billionsness." ^'old by all druggists.
Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy is not a swindle, gotten lip to dupe the ignorant. It eures as thousands testify. jy27-dwlw.
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Self-raising Flour saves all llakir Powders, Soda and Cream Tartar. Always reliable.
Dyspeptics and Invalids can use. it .wit impunity. Prepared by C. 1. RIPLEY.
'•The Same Old Regiment will''1' Vov.' Shoos."—Frank Crawford is daiJ receiving New Goods from the manufac tories. Call and examine his CustomWork of all kinds. No. 98 Main street-
Home Insurance Co. of New
York.
Extracts from "American Exchange and Re v-y view.] -J:i The Home Insurance Company of Nev York wrote in 1869 upon 5210,000,000 fire hazards, about one-thirtieth of lire insnrance business of the country.1. risks expiring in the year amounted to'' §188,765.810, and $214,000,0UU were car ried at the close of IbO'J. .f
Not only is the Home the sole nv million-dollar capital lire company ii New York, "but its gross surpliii alone ($2,510,3(58) is larger than the total gros.assets, including capital, of any othei. New York fire insurance company.
To the administrative and executives authority of this company must be ac-wi corded the credit of making the best ot^ ihe lire situation, of seeing their way through the uncertainties and impedi--ments of the business to rational results. With clear ideas and keen intuitions, avoiding the avenues to bankruptcy: which permeate the fire insurance system, they underwrite upon the principle thaw* fire insurance is nothing if not profitable.. The policv holder i-certainly safest with that company which makes the most'" money, lis security is worth more than?! the security of any oilier company, in the present confusion, lire insurance can be promised at any price, but it cannot be secured at a price below a paying point. An office doing a non *•. paying business is simply a cheat and:.-? delusion to the policy-holder. The Home ,. Insurance Company practices no deceplion, and we believe it to be good for what it contracts to do. li'/ifn it is understood that neurit/ one-half oj the fire insurance companics v.hich have been started in the Ignited ,0. i/ufcs have failed, this may seem like a bold faith to place in any such institution. Still, the management of the Homes. inspires confidence, and i\e have given evidence that they are not working toward insolvency."
The Home is represented in this city by llosford and IJoudinot, office cor. 4th and Main'sts. 2-dlm.
O A
I). (!. STI'NKAIID
beautiful pat
terns, just received at the Carpet Hall. Manufacturers and other.! please take notice. ,.
have a large
stock oi' Clothes Wringers, which they propose to sell at low figures. Also, a new style of Cistern Pump, that for the price cannot be beat. Step Ladders, Cutting Boxes, &c., &c. Parties needing anything of the kind would do Well to give them a call. 20-tf
Having removed my office to the corner of Fourth and Ohio streets, 1 ami _-Meridian streets, up sta:rs, prepared to fill all orders for the pure,
U.
BARRIOS.
Having lormeii a partnership under the name of .Stnnknrd ic Burrick, for tho sale of Coal and Wood, would respecttully announce to tho public that they will keep constantly on hand and for sale at lowest rates, all kinds of Coal at wholesale and retail, also Wood for the full and wintertrade.
OHico at Mo. 2-'i Buntin House, lerre Haute, Ind. All ordurs for Coal tilled promptly. A sharo of the public patronage is respertlully solicited.
0 HAS. AI.KXANIKh K..C.KEAU.
AliKXAMtEK & READ, DEALERS IN Flour, Meal, Corn, Oata, Baled
Hay, and Feed of all kinds, Cornvi'8th auil 3!alu Nti. Articles delivered
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ol elinrgn.
'unypar of the eity tree dec lld'ui
AMES? B.LYNK,
Wholesale and Retail dealer in
Piw'r Copper Distilled K»'n I tucky Whisky
ASD
ofAugust. Go early and fill the College, and JJowestir If inen
ami lAfjuorn,
No,
70 Main St., bet. Hd and 4tb
TEHRE-HAUTE, IND. 16\viy)
J. V. WEAVER,
Manufacturer of
iPER BOXES,
1, South-west corner Washington and third floor,
Indianapolis, Ind.
unadulterated block coal. I Boxes' of every description made to order. L. F. MERRILL. I OUDKBS PB0HPTLY ATTENDED TO.mbdo
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