298 THE IRON ORE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS. 



ing drawing of the furnace, from which the following notes were made: Base 

 of hearth, eleven feet; inside diameter of crucible, six feet six inches; bosh, 

 eleven feet; six tuyeres, height above hearth, six feet; hearth to bosh, fifteen 

 feet three inches; inside stack, from bosh to ''down-takes," thirty-one feet ten 

 inches; diameter of the two down-takes, thirty inches; inside diameter of 

 stack at top, eight feet eight inches; outside stack, from hearth to top, sixty- 

 three feet six inches ; height of mantel, eighteen feet. 



Product. — To Mr. R. L. Coleman, president, the writer is indebted for 

 samples of the product (No. 1 and No. 2 foundry pig iron) for the State mu- 

 seum, and the following particulars: The furnace was put in blast Novem- 

 ber 8, 1890, and went out of blast January 10, 1891, for alteration of boiler 

 furnace. The product for the time in blast was a little over two thousand 

 tons of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds each, or about four mil- 

 lion four hundred and eighty thousand pounds. 



THE STAR AND CRESCENT FURNACE. 



This furnace is located between Rusk and New Birmingham, on the St. 

 Louis, Arkansas and Texas railway, just outside the southeastern limits of 

 Rusk. 



Organization. — This company was organized in November, 1890, as a joint 

 stock company, with a capital of $500,000. The stock is partly owned by 

 local stockholders, but most of it is held by capitalists in New Orleans. The 

 officers are as follows: Mr. A. Britton, of New Orleans, president; Mr. E. C. 

 Dickinson, of Rusk, vice-president; Mr. E. S. Maunsell, of New Orleans, sec- 

 retary and treasurer; Mr. R. A. Barrett, of Rusk, formerly superintendent of 

 prison industries at the State penitentiary at Rusk, general manager. 



Property. — The property owned and controlled by this company at present 

 consists of about fifteen thousand acres of timber land, and about three thou- 

 sand acres of ore land. 



Furnace under Construction. — The ground was broken for the founda- 

 tion of this hot blast furnace in the early part of January, 1891. Through 

 the courtesy of Mr. R. A. Barrett, general manager, the writer was permitted 

 to examine the working drawing of the stack, from which notes were made 

 of the principal lines. It will be built from these drawings, designed and 

 prepared by Mr. Barrett himself. Height of stack inside, sixty-five feet; bosh, 

 eleven feet in diameter; crucible, six feet in diameter; diameter inside stack 

 at top, eight feet six inches; six tuyeres, four and one-half inches in diameter; 

 height of tuyeres, six feet. 



The capacity of the furnace is estimated at fifty tons per day. A new fea- 

 ture in construction is suggested by experience in the life of boshes. This 

 furnace will contain a circular "water brick" constructed of hollow casting, 



