262 MINERALS FOR THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—GILPIN. 
Tron. 
Among the most interesting of the exhibits under this head 
is that of the Nova Scotia Steel Company. This company is an 
example of the successful progress of enterprise combined with 
commercial and technical skill. The forge works of New 
Glasgow, which acquired well-deserved notice for their work in 
ship frames, shafts, stems, ete., gradually grew and prespered 
With the iron ores and coal of Pictou County at the doors of 
New Glasgow, it needed one step and the company produced 
its own raw material. A railway was built from Hopewell to 
the head of the East River, to open the Bridgeville iron ores 
and limestones. A furnace was built at the junction of the 
East and West branches of the East River, and a large steel 
works made Trenton another New Glasgow. 
This measure of progress has not limited the company’s 
ambition. By a lucky stroke of business they acquired possession 
of an enormous iron ore deposit on the coast of Newfoundland. 
This deposit was capable of yielding at the cheapest rate an ore 
suitable for the basic process. Accordingly large amounts have 
been annually imported for mixture with the limonite ores of 
Bridgeville. Exports have also been made to the United States 
and Europe. The company has sold part of this deposit to the 
Dominion Iron and Steel Company, it is said, for the sum of 
$1,000,000 00. Now they propose to absorb the 22 square miles 
of coal area of the General Mining Association and to erect at 
North Sydney a steel plant rivaling that of the Dominion Steel 
Company. 
The ores of the Pictou iron field comprise limonites, red 
hematites, and spathic and specular ores. As yet operations 
have been confined to the limonites mined by the Steel Co. 
There are enormous deposits of red hematites and specular ores 
yet untouched, and atfording material for the establishment of 
an iron industry surpassing that contemplated at the Sydneys. 
The samples exhibited by the company comprise ores, fluxes, 
fuels, pig iron, and the steel products. 
