RUSSIAN IRON Pittsburg Men Who Got the Secret of the Manufacture.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 215, 13 August 1887, Page 7

RUSSIAN IRON Pittsburg Men Who Got the Secret of the Manufacture.

The New York "Tribune's" Pittsburgh special of June 9th says : The initial steps weie taken to day for.constructing a Ru? g'an iron mill at Freeport, about thirty miles north of this city. Farley Alden, member of W. H. Rogers and Co., who will build the iron works, said to day : " This will be the first Russian iron-mill ever built outside of Siberia. An imitation of Russian iron has been made in this country for some time, but it is not impervious to rust. Imper ■ viousness to rust is the test of genuine Russian iron. Few persons imagine what risk was run in learning the secret of the treatment by which Ruesian iron is made. There are only three popple outside of Russia, to-day who know 1 *'his 80Q^J>, They are William Rogers, W. H. iWw s ™£v ftnd Wfflio-ui Nachol, a nephew g* William Rogers. About eighteen years; ago William Rogers was sent out as Perm • sylvania State Geologist to Russia. He had credentials addressed to ex-Governor Curtain, Minister at St. Petersburg at the tinie. As long as he confined his explorations to mines he attracted little or no^ suspicion, but as soon as he set his foofc inside the iron mills of the Princess Dem- 11 ' 1 -'" he was subjected to *£' ~-un espionage. It mi«- J , " c most vigilant the men in ** , .„"" b f that AJ-ri r? lmlls who kn °w the .secret of u\aVng Russian iron are never al owed to qir the mills. With the special S he had mace of iron-making £fe£ fS to Russia he was not lon^in dScovS S4rtronb C r/' ed S T' et ' tho^hTe ha! ffieattiouble to evade suspicion H<iri h ft been detected he would have been^or^d to remain in Siberia the ret of hislSe."