322 Notice of Steel Mine and Iron Worhs. 



Considering, therefore, the mexhaustlble supply of the ore and the 

 ease with which it may be raised, — the facilities of wood, water and 

 labor J- — -and the easy transportation to market, I am authorized by the 

 present proprietor to submit it to the attention of capitalists, whether, 

 a surer investment of capital can be made in our country ; or one, 

 which, on the whole, would prove more conducive to our national 

 prosperity, than that above described. 



Salisbury Iron Works. 



It may not be generally known that the Iron mine of Salisbury has, 

 for a considerable period, been one of the most important in our 



" The Sparry Iron is not so geneially distributed in nature as could be desired ; 

 nevertheless it is explored in France, in numerous veins in the environs of Baigorry, 

 department of the Basses- Pyrenees, by means of the Catalan forges established in 

 the neighboring departments. 



" At Allevard, near Grenoble, in the department of Isere, two hundred miners 

 are occupied in working this ore, of which the iron, fit for the fabrication of steel, 

 fuinishes the important steel manufactory of Rives, in the same department. 



" In Styria and in Carinthia, this ore occurs in beds and powerful veins, and even 

 forms an entire mountain at Eisencerz and at Erzberg, from whence comes the ex- 

 cellent steel brought into France from those countries, and which serves for the fab- 

 rication of sythes, which the French are now themselves beginning to imitate from 

 their own natural resources, so as nearly to take the place of the German steel. 



"In Switzerland, also, an enormous mass of this ore is explored, known under 

 the name of stahlberg. Finally, it exists, likewise, in the Hartz, and in Siberia ; in 

 all the situations where it abounds, it always becomes the basis of the most important^ 

 manufactures in steel." — Brard, Mineralogie appliquee aux Arts, tom. I, p. 377, et. sq. 



" Natural Steel is made at once from sparry iron in small blast furnaces, which 

 from their being much used in Catalonia, in Spain, are called Catalan forges. The 

 steel produced in them is good steel for ploughs and similar machines ; that with 

 three marks is excellent for springs and sword cutlery." 



" The most esteemed natural steel made in Germany, is that of Styria ; it is usu- 

 ally sold in chests or barrels, two and a half to three feet long. Its grain is even, 

 close, and fine, but when polished, it shews fibres, cinders and threads, from which 

 even this steel is not entirely free." " Files and the best kind of tools are usually 

 made of this steel in Germany." " The French have also manufactured natural steel 

 for a long time ; but it is only lately that they have begun to improve their quality 

 and to attempt to rival the Gei'man steel. The best French steel works are those of 

 Rives, in the department of the Isere, which is used for large cutlery, and might 

 perhaps be used for the finest. The steel of Berardiere is used for all kinds of 

 springs, as also for cuirasses, which are usually made of iron ; but those of this 

 steel well forged, offer four times the resistance, although equally light, and not 

 dearer. The natural steel of Le Hutte, department of the Vosges, is esteemed ex- 

 cellent for saws. Good natural steel is also manufactured at Neronville, in the de- 

 partments of the Nievre." " The steel brought from Bombay, by the name of loootz 

 or Indian steel (of which the Damascus sabres are made,) is, also, a kind of natural 

 steel."— Gray's Operative Chemist, p. 684, et sq. 



