SMELTING IRON SAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8934, 17 November 1890, Page 3

SMELTING IRON SAND.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Would you kindly publish in answer to Mr Drake's letter the following extract from a letter received in August, 1877, by Mr W. W. Taylor, of Wellington, as to experiments made by the Messrs Walker, of Wolverhampton, England, with pig iron run at the Titanic Company's furnace, New Plymouth. The reports is very satisfactory, and concludes :—": — " You will gather from the foregoing trials, most of them being the British Admiralty requirments for 'Best Best' bar iron (whose tensile is 22 tons per square inch, whereas your iron stands 1 and li tons above this), that the iron is remarkably well adapted for the better classes of engineering and smith work. The pigs of metal on being broken exhibited a good mottled fracture, and in the puddling furnace they work remarkably well into wrought iron." A postscript to the letter , states that " The quality of bar (iron) made was equal to BBH bars, the present cost of which is £9 at the works." — This should convince Mr Drake that I am not very wrong in my statement. — I am, &c, E. M. Smith, Practical Metallurgist.