Open-Hearth Furnace Stock Yard.[37] (See [page 415].)
Mining Ore, Island of Cuba. (See [page 413].)
The immense veins of magnetic ore lie close to the surface and are mined or quarried by working along a series of benches or ledges.
Loading Ore, Island of Cuba. (See [page 413].)
The ore is loaded into small buggies at the mines and run down an inclined plane, where it is dumped into railroad cars for transportation to the shipping wharves, seventeen miles distant.
Pig Iron Casting Machine. (See [page 414].)
No. 1 casting machine has a capacity of 1,000 tons per day. There are 180 molds, each pig weighing about 125 pounds.
No. 2 machine has a capacity of 1,800 tons per day. It has 278 molds, each for 125-pound pig.
Product, low phosphorus, Bessemer and basic, or high phosphorus machine-cast pig iron.