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TRIP THROUGH STEEL MINES OF BIRMINGH AM Zebulon Lady Talks Interestingly About Iron Making The following article has been handed The Record by Mrs. J. I)., Davis, who has been visiting her son .'in .Birmingham, Ala. The article tells ; how the iron is made in the furnaces and is of interest to those who have | never seen the manner in which iron is mrde. We gladly give space to the article for the benefit of our many readers. The article follows: Visible from the veranda of my son’s home in Birmingham, Ala., light ing the night sky, is the glow’ of the distant blast furnaces and steel mills which mark the Birmingham District as one of the greatest iron and steel producing centers in the world. This continual glow, heightened occasion-! ally by the blaze of a furnace as a ; fresh charge is added, or by the dumping of a ladle of white hot slag to run down the mountainous sides of the slag pile in a molten stream, made me more than willing to accept J the suggestion that I visit the mills and see something of how iron and steel are made. The first trip, to the blast furnaces was made at night. Here in enormous furnaces, the iron ore, together with limstone to absorb the impurities from the ore, is melted down, the process of cumbustion being supported by coke. Incidentally, all three of the * materials necessary to make iron, the iron ore, coal from which the coke is made, and limestone, are mined w'ith in a few miles of each other in the Birmingham District. As the ore is melted, the impuri ties, together with the molten lime stone and the residue from the burned coke, being lighter than iron, rises to the top of the molten mass, and is drained off into locomotive drawn buckets or ladles, and is dumped out at a convenient spot. This product know’ as slag, w’as originally wasted, but is now’ after cooling and harden ing, broken up and used as a base for making concrete, brick, tile, and other products. The heavier iron col lects at the bottom of the furnace and is either drawn off into moulds made in a plat of sand, becoming “pig iron,” or is taken off into ladles and wdthout being cooled is converted into steel. On another occasion a trip was made through the steel mills. Here the molten iron from the bias furnaces is passed successively through the mixters, the converters, and the open hearth furnaces, where the impurities of the iron are burned out, and fol lowing this certain becomes steel. The molten steel, at a temperature of 3,000 degrees, is poured from the hearth furnaces into ladles, which are lifted by travelling cranes and the steel poured into ingot moulds. These ingots are then allowed to cool to the point where the shrinkage is sufficient to allow the moulds to be lifted off. The ingots are then placed in what are known as soaking pits, and by means of gas flames are re heated to a proper temperature for rolling. From the soaking pits the ingots are taken to the rolling mills. Here, passing back and forth through the enormous water cooled rolls of the bloom mill, the 110 ton ingot is gradually rolled out into a bloom, some'forty feet in length, and six or eight inches square. Still hot the bloom is cut into rail lengths by hydraultic shears, and passed to the rail mill. Here the rolling process is repeated and the rail takes shape, the size of the rail depending upon the roll used. The rails are then cut to length and straightened, and then for the first time since the ore was melted are allowed to cool. After cooling the coupling holes are bored and the rails are loaded by means of an electro magnetic crane for shipment to the railroads. To one who has not seen steel in the making, this simple description of the process of making rails, one of the many products of the steel mills, cannot convey an adequate idea of the mills. This could only be conveyed by seeing the blazing converter, spout ing a flame twenty to thirty feet high carrying sparks of molten steel, which, however, cool before they fall and are swept up and reused, by see ing the molten steel, white in the in tensity of its heat, pour from the tilt ed open hearth furnaces in a mighty cataract, to see the enormous ingots drawn from the soaking pits by pow erful travelling cranes, and carried along rollers to the hungry jaws of the rolling mill, whore with a .crash of steel on steel, a flying of sparks, nd a hissing of 'earn as a h.oe pi. vs water on the mighty rolls, the rail vi':ng process begins. Standing ; h 1 r i!g mills as the hot steel ,v Hir gh, the heat is intense, >'■ '* " ; ’>h in fact to one unaccustomed 1 it for i !■ a few moments. Amid ! .’us • •h • clang, and clatter, and v h of the rolls and their driving machinery forming a babel of rounds :,.,.ivr which can be heard only t 1 ‘cam whistle used for signally, the ■ y or which war demonstrated since a rngr.il h id to be given i v.e parsed within a few feet of it. <'on\?mtion could be carried on only sh< uting end then with difficulty; ! ut out of this seeming confusion of heat and noise and blinding light was earning a steady stream of steel rails which were just as steadily being shipped to the railroads to be placed in their tracks to carry the commerce of the world. Co-ops. Make Another Payment A special fr m Raleigh, June 30, ays; Distribution of another pay ment, though eomnaratively a small one, through co-operative receiving oints in Eastern North C: rolina from 'uly 1 until July 7, added to the checks which have recently been dis tributed in the South Carolina belt and those to be distributed shortly in Virginia, will run the money end of the Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative Association’s first quarterly settle ment above a million dollars. More than half a million was dis tributed in the South Carolina belt several days ago and with the checks went to each member k ill, detailed -.tatement showing what grades of tobacco had been marketed and for 4 1 what they were sold by the asso/c/ p,on for him. Cordial approval of gV>w ers throughout the South Carolina belt has been given to the new qu3f lerly statement method of payment# While the total in Eastern Nd'" h Carolina is not so large as the S4uth Carolina total, it is made upon the same new basis of settlement ordered by the association directors. Checks going into Eastern Carolina are soy. only a few grades which have been sold. They cover, in the main, tho lower grades of scrap, in eluding 81, 87, 88, 89, 810, 811, B Scrap, Dl, 1)2, D 9, DlO, D Scrap, E6, E7, F 6, F7, and 117. Eastern Carolina growers may re ceive these checks, with statements, at their receiving points from July 1 to July 7, but after the latter data it will be necessary for them to send their participation receipts to Rich mond. The steady flow of co-operative checks, providing cash money in lean seasons as well as i nthe fat ones, is attracting more new contracts than anything else, according to co-opera- i For Ice Boxes and Porch Swings, see Massey Bros. J " BESWES Unusual beauty is embodied in the straight line design of the economical OIL COOK STOVE Its strong frame, broad shelves, solid leg”, and handsome colors makes your kitchen beautiful and your work joyous. It is easy to cook with, easy to clean. The high clean blue flame never soots up the utensils. Flame stays set. No wick cutting. Come in for Demonstration We have them in 3,4 and 5 Burners at THE RIGHT PRICE “The House of Better Values” Zebulon Supply Co. THE ZEBUI ON RECORD, FRIDAY, JULY 3,1925 R-nciTj r— ■ if" J. 1 -m mu.'np-.ar~-.Bi • -w ■« T»v;-»r ■■■■<« live workers in the South Carolina belt. The quarterly statement system is nr 1 :ii■ <r vith distinct approval for it furnishes tie. grower i n opportunity, •it all iiir.es, to take a satisfactory j inventory of his assets to check against hi bills payable ,or liabilities. After the Eastern Carolina dis triVjtion, ieli began last Wednes- ; v, checks and quarterly statements w'! 1 l a di. tiibuted in the old belt of giiiia and North Carolina cover- 1 payment on all grades sold up to -Hay 31. S. D. FRISSELL. \LLOW WEEK’S GRACE ON At TO LICENSE TAGS A we !■ <••’ rce within which to . are State automobile licenses was Tuseday aim maced by Sprague Sil ver. acting deputy commissioner of revenue in charge of the Automobile : License Bun u. The 1924-25 tags ex pired Tuesday. The grant ing of the additional time j war. caused by the tremendous rush of last minute license buyers who threatened to swamp the bureau here nd its branches through the State. Commissioner of Revenue R. A. Doughton expects the number of licenses issued to be around 520,000. Income Taxes Ir. State Drops Over $700,000 Income tax collections for the fiscal year ending Tuesday show a decrease of 8730,925.86 over corresponding col lections for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, it has been announced oy Commissioner of Revenue R. A. Doughton. Figures covering all collections are not yet available, but Commissioner Doughton stated that the decrease in income taxes would be largely offset by an increase in inheritance taxes. For the year ending June 30, 1924, income tax collections amounted to' '*4,481,378.25, while collection this year were $3,750,452.39. Taxes on in dividual incomes increased from $975,- 000 to $977,000 and those on foreign ’orporatmns increased from $1,565,000 to $1,607,000, but thees increases w r ere more than offset by the dcrease in xes on domestic corporations from $1,940,000 to $1,165,000, the slump in the cotton mill business accounting for the big difference. For Screen Wire, Screen Doors and Screen Windows, see Massey Bros. Even, if you can tell a woman’s age it is best not to. Shingles and Laths, Winr dows and Doors, at' Massey Bros. June 30 ' WITNESS W \NTS NEED! INI CONVICTED (Continued from page 1) ; nade against her .and yet, in the face of that the solicitor announced that iiae to lack of evidence, the State advocated that the indictment against N- edleman be quashed. She is having a statement prepared which will be ready in a few days and which will et forth . 11 of the details in connec ts ii with the attack against her.” j ■‘Eve heard a lot of people say I that they were surprised that the case against Needleman had been dropped. 1 also have heard it stated that vari- : ■us Jews in Kinston and other towns contributed to a fund of seven thou sand dollars, which was used to get Needleman (eat of his trouble without bringing him to trial. I know’ enough about the case to know that if he is brought into court he is bound to be convicted on the evidence submitted.’’ For Kerogas Oil Stoves and Allen Ranges, see Massey l Bros. The Colored People's Column CELEBRATED BIRTHDAY The Juvenile Class No. 391 cele j brated Mrs. J. A. Gresham’s birthday by giving her a party. They served chicken sandwiches, w’hite potatoe salad, ice cream and cake. The cake w’as decorated with white and yellow. The secretary, who is Miss Louise Green, w’as not present, so Miss Annie May Pretty acted in her place, and Master E. C. Simmons, of Norfolk, Va., gave a lecture to the ; club. It was a grand time and the club members all enjoyed it. The club will meet again next Tuesday evening. Master Robert Baten is the president, w’ho is to in vite the children to come. Miss Louise Green is secretary. For further information write Mrs. J. A. Gresham. The man who is right is never lets. i One good spurn deserves another. Distance lends enchantment to many a summer resort. Kiln dried Flooring and ! Ceiling. Massey Bros. | BANG! I a GOES PRICES I EVERY EFFORT BEING PUT FORTH TO MAKE THE LAST fl FEW DAYS OF || m n I , Shamburger-Pippin Co/s 0 | BIG SALE § 8 . The Biggest Yet | J fj a few of the many specials we have in H STORE FOR YOU: H - RADMOOR SLIPPERS N Chiffon Hose, Beautiful assort- w Bment of colors, a real $1.29 W hite Buck Slippers at a <£l QK Vi $1.75 value f most unbelievable price « Yi 0 S VOILES TOWELS Vj M Normandy Voiles. The Season’s Nice big Turkish Towels, an most popular patterns to 41 VoC I Item you can’t have too select Irom “ many of HI IS SCRIM HOSE II 8 Several pretty Curtain Scrim Pat- Best Silk Hose. Perfect shape, H terns, going as cheap %. $2.50 value, on sale (£1 » as for only «pl.uy a l j| CONTESTANT NOTE B M Our Popularity Contest closes Saturday night promptly at 9:30 I 9 and we ask that all contestants be on hand at that time, as the Ts. fjj winners must be present to secure their prizes. 1 8 - -I Midsummer Shies are Mow Here We are receiving daily new styles in LADIES ami MEN’S DRESS SHOES, and PRICES that will PLEASE YOU. Our Motto Is: To save you money on every pair or return Shoes and money will be refunded. Til II Br M Wake Shoe Store 127-129 E. Martin Street Raleigh, N. C. N. G. BERRY, Manager. j 1
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