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CHROME  MINES  OF  CHESTER  COUNTY,  PA. 
tion  of  that  necessary  ingredient,  which  can  at  the  same  time 
be  easily  eliminated,  if  desirable. 
3.  The  bleaching  is  effected  by  an  extraordinarily  rapid  and 
facile  process;  and,  indeed,  for  the  common  light-colored  pack- 
ing paper,  the  process  becomes  entirely  unnecessary. 
4.  The  Indian  corn  paper  possesses  greater  strength  and  te- 
nacity than  rag  paper,  without  the  drawback  of  brittleness,  so 
conspicuous  in  the  common  straw  products. 
5.  No  machinery  being  required  in  the  manufacture  of  this 
paper  for  the  purpose  of  tearing  up  the  raw  material  and  re- 
ducing it  to  pulp,  the  expense,  both  in  point  of  power  and  time, 
is  far  less  than  is  necessary  for  the  production  of  rag  paper. 
Count  Lippe  having  put  himself  in  communication  with  the 
Austrian  Government,  an  Imperial  manufactory  for  Indian  corn 
paper  (maishalm  papier,  as  the  inventor  calls  it)  is  now  in  course 
of  construction  at  Pesth,  the  capital  of  the  greatest  Indian  corn 
growing  country  in  Europe.  Another  manufactory  is  already 
in  full  operation  in  Switzerland,  and  preparations  are  being  made 
on  the  coast  of  the  Mediterranean  for  the  production  and  ex- 
portation on  a  large  scale  of  the  pulp  of  this  new  material.  — 
Ameriecm  Druggists'  Circular,  from  London  Daily  Telegrap)h, 
THE  CHROME  MINES  OF  CHESTER  COUNTY,  PA. 
A  correspondent  of  the  West  Chester  Jeffersonian,  writing 
from  Hopewell  Borough,  thus  describes  the  Chrome  Works  in 
that  vicinity : 
Some  six  miles  southwest  of  this  place  lie  the  famous  chrome 
mines,  familiarly  known  as  <•  Wood's  Chrome  Banks."  They 
and  a  tract  of  land  are  owned  by  a  Mr.  Tyson,  of  Baltimore, 
Md.,  properly  styled  the  "  Chrome  King,"  To  these  quarries  or 
mines  we  paid  a  visit  during  the  last  season,  when  there  were 
upwards  of  70  hands  employed  in  and  about  the  mines,  indepen- 
dent of  those  engaged  in  hauling  the  chrome  to  market.  There 
are  two  shafts  sunk  from  which  the  ore  or  mineral  is  taken. 
They  have  descended  to  the  amazing .  depth  of  three  hundred 
feet.  The  mouths  of  the  shafts  have  nothing  dissimilar  in  their 
appearance  to  that  of  an  ordinary  well,  probably  a  little  wider. 
They  descend  perpendicularly  some  75  feet,  then  strike  off  in  an 
