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But may not other and simpler means be adopted for obtaining a 



Other means maybe better result from these rich ores? We think 

 "^°l**®^ there may, and, with the experience of other 



countries to guide in such trials, believe that much might be done to 

 develope the industry of this district. 



The introduction of skilled labor and practical experience from 

 SkiUed labor to be in- Europe or elsewhere is common to all projects 

 troduced. which might be started, and may therefore be 



assumed. But it is desirable to render this necessity as slight as 

 possible. At the same time, although there appears from the state- 

 ments of all observers to be little doubt of the abundance of fuel, 

 this valuable material must be economised as far as may be 

 possible. 



I think some form of reverberatory furnace will best meet these 



Eeverberatory furnace Conditions, by which, with the least number of 

 moBtdeBirable. gj^jjjgj ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^j^j^ ^ g^^^jj expenditure of 



fiiel, a considerable yield of good malleable iron may be produced by 



the direct process. 



There are two modifications of reverberatory 

 Two kinds of furnaces. 



furnaces now in use which recommend themselves. 



The first is one originally patented (in America) by Kenton in 1851, 

 for making wrought iron direct from the ore. This process is now being 

 carried out upon a commercial scale at Cincinnati in Ohio and at Newark 

 in New Jersey. 



Professor John Wilson described the practical application of this 



patent in some detaU in his account of the several 

 Kenton's furnace as 



described by Professor branches of the iron trade of America, as re- 

 J. Wilson. 



presented in the Great Exhibition at New York, 



and his words may be quoted with advantage. He says : — " In shape 



'' the furnace is like the ordinary puddling furnace, at the extremity of 



" which a chamber of the following dimensions, 10 feet high by 6 feet 



