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VOLUME XVII.
Vie Pailu
JAMES P. BARR,
EDITOR AND •PROPRIETOR:
TERM Five Dollars per year, strictly in ad
vanes. Weekly, Single subscriptions Two Dol
lars per year; in Clubs of five, One Dollar.
ii.PITTSBII49II INSTITUTION.
;1: SOME' frk[psr.
WHO TWAT IT AND THE PURPOSES
TO WHICH IT IS: 'APPLIED.
We present the readers of Tar POST to-day
.witti r a capitally executed fee sintileengraving
of the new Iron. Bank Block on Fifth, street.
It is the work of Mr. B. Marshall, an art*
who has but recently made our city-his home.
This, exquisite specimen of his talents as an ert
giaver will at once introduce hira to the favor
able notice of or those who admire artistic
taste, or Who may desire to employ the talents
of a first-class artist. '\'c-style the engraving
Vac sisal, , and it is literally So. It was not
drawn, as is usually the es -e in making wood
engravirigs, but was auminer. ped directly,,upon
a prepared Week, and thnsl.ll .graver secured
the most perfect correctness into. Aesign.
The Iron Bank Block is a matter of just and
honorable pride to our city. It is a develop
ment of home resources, au' evidence of enlarg
ed liberality on the part of home capital—a
qaieitnen eftlieelfeet 6/lionise roanufactariand
mechanical skill, to which every Pittsburglier
points :with satisfaction and.pride. . It is an or
nament to the city, aim at the same time a vis
ible proof of the energy. enterprise. taste and
liberality of the men of solid capital among us.
Everything -about this beautiful and
,substan
tial structure, from cornice - to feundation stone,
bespeaks the most liberal expenditure of money,
and a most praiseworthy determination to cre
ate such a structure as should not only be most
perrnanently useful but most exquisitely orna
mental., The architectural design of the build
ing; the mitterial'of its structure. the Men Who
wrought out the designs of the architect, the
elaborate style and finish of all the details, are
the work of Pittsburgh hands, and the sugges
tion of Pittsburgh taste. '
,
The, feasibility of using iron , to architecture .
has been admitted only within the last few
year:. A structure like that ofwhich we write,
so large, so compact and ornamental, mid so
permanent in its solid unity and completeness,
is even yet en unusual achlevernent in orna
mental iron architecture. Here is an evidence
of what men M . practical science have fOretold, ,
that iron will soon conic to be the material for
the construction of all edifices which are de
signed to be at ones lasting and ornamental.
'ln all large cities it is economy to construct
tire proof buildings, and to secure this end iron
will be the chief material used. The great
staple of Pennsylvania will prove a cheaper ar
ticle for building purposes in the long run than
any material not fire proof. It is not affected
by the vicissitudes of the weather, and is sus
eeptible of the highest degree of ornamentation.
It combines all the qualities of strength, dura
bility, safety from accidents from elemental
CP.IISe.S, and architectural beauty. There is no
effect in romildings, or statuesque ornament:t
itan, which may not be re-poduced in iron,and
that very cheaply. We can have all the style
- and fastefql effects of costly Marbles, .without
the expense. The Coliseum, with all its coma
picas :m:4 iltited columns, its 4tatues, its niches
find its delicate arcbe+ might be re-produced in
a Pittsburgh Foundry.
The use of iron in architecture is yet in its
infancy, but such buildings us this cannot fail
to attract the attention and admiration of all
persons of taste.
It is our purpose, in what we have to sac
concerning this magnificent Block, to bring
before the public, which will award them the
"relit they deserve, the liberal minded man
`.!no have with no higgall - hand expended their
Honey to ppdhce in the heart of our city an
firer presUnt and permanent monument of
t.t4litirgh taste, •:1 4 the artistic talents of
Pittsburgh workers. They have given us an
iron building worthy of the name of the Iron
City, and one which every stranger who shall
isit our city, at once notices as unequalled o;
kin 4 itt ally city of the &Autry.
It is 4140 ot4r iiitention 10 Inuke especial
mention of the niunitfueturers who have'aided
in producing, and the atizrans •wbuse hands
have wrought upon Wiz 41endid structure.
The scope of our design n'io in :lude brief
notices of the business of thu.,..l l wlie have heen
so 'fortunate'as to secure the ochuptiayof the
spacious warerooms and apartments ; of this
busineis centre of our city. We c6mreonce
With a 'brief' architectural description of the
building.
The proprietors of this splendid structure,
which is, in feat, four immense buildings with
a single fl:orif, are i'/lessrs. C. G. Hussey S.-. Co.,
*Blain tia,galey; Bsq., the Allegheny Bank
and the Bittsburgh and Boston Copper Mining
c,;orr t pany. t viould ben)yorli of supereroga
tion for ns, in this punruttnity, where the indi
viduals whose capital and enterprise have pro
duced this splendid architectural ornament, and
most useful public improvement to our own
city, are so well known, to speak of their per
sonal character. No better evidence fOr what
manner, of men. they nre eoutd, be 'etodueed
than the building itself. Men, sometimes,
..o often, perhaps, board their wealth for the
enetlt'Of'posterit} these gentlemen . have,
irithil liberal hand; expended scime of the no-_
cumulations Of their aetive busineSs enterprlies
and'pa tient toil; for . tbe benefit and enjoyment
of the prisent •generation. They, themselves,
dnci - 4/ . 6 4 City, which is proud of such t citizens,
reap the present advantage of their liberality,
I ,a4cl,,those who ; come after. them : will find the
olid structure, which theif wealth has reared,
Issting and ever t.,ciful monument of their
. progressive spirit.. • There can be no "old fo
gyism " inthe compositfon'of men who origin
ate and so speedily consummate such an enter
prise.
the beauty and correctness of the view which
our artist has presented, precludes the necessity
of an elaborate, artistic architectural descrip
t4on of the .front view of this magnificent
Is, 'arid each nai4 , view it
for hiinself. A few details, regf;rding the ex
tent and manner of the , streetnre; may ? hosi
ever, provo et Interest r ekpeel,4lY to ii°l!"r!si
dents in our city.
It is located in the heart of the city—at its
very centre of business, upon the broadest and
best street in our city for business purpeses.'
little,more than
.a year r i sr,:fTuptin the. site
which it occupies; stood the SeCo - fidtgkeezyteri
an Church. Natural business , change, incit-:
dent to all large cities, liaving'rendered:Fifth
street a thronged thoroughfare the location
f hacit l t
came "unsuitable e or the 'silent . so y of
religious worship, and the congregatiitia sold
their lot and removed. UP:an:tore quiet location:
The joint purchasers of the lot ininsecEitely
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Matured. the design of the present noblestruc
ture,. which Was demanded by the business
necessities of the place. They resolved to have
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a spacious, central, solid, commodious and:, or
namental business house. Another lot adjoin
ing that occupied by the church, was in the
market,and was purchased by Mr.WM.Bagaley,
than whom Pittsburgh possesses no more enter
prising merchant, and `thus four of the largest
lots in our eity. were included in the design.
This splendid structure is, in dimensions, one
hundred and four feet front on Fifth street, by
one hundred and twenty feet in depth. A
wide alley runs along the eastern side, as may
be seen by reference to our engraving. It is
seventy-two feet in height, from pavement to
cornice. As we have already stated, it is in fact
four distinct buildings, with four di iTerent own
erships, harmonised by art and architectural
skill so as to present from the front view the
appearance of a single building.
THE 'ARCHITECTURE.
To Mr. Charles Bartberger belongs the credit
of the architectural. taste displayed in this fine
building. Desirous of displaying by all the
means in their power, the mechanical capabili
ties 01 Pittsburgh and her artizans, the projec
tors of amstracture determined that its front
should be entirely of iron. All of them were
gentlemen of intelligence, and all possessed of
no ordinary degree of taste. Having employed
Mr. Bartberger to carry out their design, each
had his suggestions to make regarding the gen
eral style and ornamentation of the building.
It was fur the architect to combine and perfect
all these ideas and suggestions, and ut the same
time to embody with them the great practical
knowledge of architectural efliscts, and to apply
the superior skill and taste which his thorough
knowledge of ancient and modern art has given
him, in such a manner as to produce a complete,
elegant and satisfactory font ensemble. This
was no ordinary task, and most exquisitely and
perfectly . has Mr. Bartberger performed it.
All the old styles of architecture. were in
tended to be used for buildings in which stone
was the material of construction. He had the
new material of iron to contend with, and it was
necessary for him to use a large degree of orig
inal inventive power in adapting the style of
the building and its ornainmtation to the new
material to be used in its construction.
The general style which he has adopted, is
that of the Venetian Reaaissonce, used at
the beginning of the sixteenth century. To
this he has added such details from the Gothic
and Moorish styles of architecture as his own
good taste suggested, and as were rendered
necessary and desirable by the nature of the
material employed. The character of the or
namentation is to a great extent original with
him.
It is due to him to state, in order to meet
the objections of severe architectural critics,
that it he had had it in his power, ho would
have given a break in the front, which would
have made a better appearance in a building of
such length. had th,.svhole ground occupied
been under a single proprietorship, this might
havebeen done but the space in theheartof our
city was too valuable to sacrifice any portionof
it to the arbitrary demands of a severe critical
taste. Happily. the architect has completely
remedied what might otherwise have been
deemed a defect, by additional ornamentatlon
upon the tipper stories of the y eentral portion of
the building. The centre of the block is orna
mented with a beautifully designed fi:ontis
piece, and embellished with cast iron statAll 4 r3' ,
in excellent taste, repMsenting Commerce,
Navigation, Mechanism and Trade.
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The entire building is :I,mimetrical, well pro
portioned, and harmonious in all its details. It
is the first structure of the kind done in our
city on so large and extensive a scale, and in
the country there are but one or . two which
eval it in size, and not one to, be compared
with it in i oposing grandeur and richness, and
originality of taste and design. The most:com
petent judgment and 864nowle4ged qpericupo
and taste have pronounced it a uptsler piece of
architectural and niechanic.al art—faultless in
conception and design, ,an 4 perfect in CNI , -
cution.
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Pittsbt.rgh claims to be the greatest 'iron
manufacturing city of the country, and she is
proud of this eol,le specimen of her workman
ship. The entire front of this magnificent
building or rather block of buildings is of cast
iron. It was made here by our OVllmartufac,
turers and mechanics. The progress oftlic iron
manufacture in the country has no more potent
illustration than such structures as this_._ present.
Within the memory of the prese;at generation
ploughs were made of wood, pointed with a bit
of iron; we enjoyed. the blessing'of "corduroy
roads" and " mud pikes,". a cooking stove was
an heir loom in a - family ; the canal boat was
the-. fast line" to Philadelphia, and the weary
blackimith'ironght,with his hammer, nails,
twenty-five coUts peg p.o,Un4. how wo have
iron implements of everylc ind, in cheapness and
abundance ; iron roadq,' with iron loinesywhirl
us from point to point with lightning speed
iron ships convey' our merchandize ; and mag
nificent iron palaces are the places where our
busihess is transacted. The Spartans used iron
for money. We use it for everything. Science
and art and skill and labor, applied to lt.„ . ,have
made it the great material minister to human
wants and human balminess. •
But wo are digressing. The
the practical talent, end the immense pre-:
dUctive'enpacity of twtiototir old6t. and largest
foundry establishments were eihmloye4 in tlid.
production of
. tfti. immense..irort , ittructure.
lifty,•tay twenty years ago it:wonld'have been
itimossible for all the foundries in our city , to
have turnedeut amountof. 2r01..1gs useditt
thhi ton -Ilessrs.
Pennock & Hart arid 3tessrs. Anderson kik
Phillips, hive done-this 'gigantic Incolltitliefli
work in less than eight Months. t ndeeci,this im
posing structure has risen entire from its loan-,
datiOnitone in leis ttiarra year:'
The promptness with which this block of
buildings has been constructed, as well as its
solkd and • s orrytte z charaptor, 4.r9 a Speaking
evidence of the energy, enterprise and produc
tive•capacity the contractors of the ironwork,'
entering into itscomposition.
line year ago, on the approaching 44 of.Tuly,
(tl'iY4t3i laid.
The purchase of the ground had been constun
,ted but two weeks - be .fo ,
mare: " The contracts,
the plans, the designiltad all to be'figpiAed
co-incidently with progreis of the - work, as
they were needed. But'eapitidliberalli_expend
ed, and mechanical skill nowhere lo .sur
fassed; were brought to beard and from story to
st c `g 919 8 Y? ° , 4a 1
_ .s r° ll rose. The foundries
of Messrs. Pennoel it Hart and Anderson &
• Fbillips; lire at a distance from each other, yet
their skillful vioriereti l .having noToppiri.unity
= Of cOmpiariliiptt,',4eF.,,qauo,o4-14rpish-
ed by,theAeajgna of tlkq supayintendiag archi
tact, have praduced united, perfecl. and;bar
i c iathie nts zi v fi c ad . •,-,
'Ae , ctiotlernid ,
whb are the proptietors
Fifth . Street, between Wood and Market, Pittsburgh,
COMMENCED JULY :id, 11358, AND COMPLETED WITEILN THE YEAR.
PI-101=y1.imu. , optis:
Win. Dagoley, The Allegheny Batik, The Pittsburgh & Boston Milling CO., C. G. Hussey & Co.
OCCLPANTS—Wm. E. Schmertz S. Co., Shoe Dealers ; Allegheny B
C. G.llinssey Si. Co.. Copper Manufacturers. and Dealers in Tin, Zin
Boston Mining Co.; Office Allegheny Insurance Co.; Office Evans It.
lice of the Allegheny Cemetery . ; Duff's Merchants' College ; Chia'
Mugger, Drawing and Painting Academy; A. Frowenfeld & Bro., I
these foundries are the progressive style I rm•e.
Foreseeing that iron must and will coin(' into
general use as a material for architecture. tie v
have spared no labor nor cost in ~I mwing to the
world its eminent 'utility, its perinanemn its
high suseephilityt. o;namc:rianditscheapness
as a material for the construction of buildin -.
The moral' effect of their labor is already felt.
fora largo number of buildings with iron fronts
are 41relAy going up in our city, and mere will
follow. ''he construction of iron kidding,: will
be a leading and permanent feature of the iron
trade of l'ittalalrgh, and Messrs. Pommel;
Hart and Anderson s Phillip; have turned
out a specimen which, while the cite lasts, will
redound to their credit. These gentlemen are
the proprietors of two of the leading and in. •-t
extensive foundries of our city, and their capa
city of production is unlimited by any ordinary
commercial demands. Anything to, be made
of cast iron, from a skillet to a four-story ware
house, they are prepared to all orders for.
promptly and in tiliy mnouM,
The displayed in the iron work i re
markable. it is as smooth es if of marble, nail
highly finished. To Mr. James Donnell, the
foreman of Venuopk. 4 Dart's foundry, hod
lar. , 4lfred VISViS, foreman of that of Messrs.
Anderson 64 Phillips, the greatest credit is due
for their aid in the production of thi , , most ad
mirable specimen clime and skill in tho work
manship of iron.
. Aside from its beautiful front, this block of
buildings is a model of architectural construc
tion in all its departments, Of one of the
buildings, that owned nod occupied by the Al
legheny Bank, William M. Edgar, Esq . ., was
the contractor and supervising constructor.
Mr. Edgar combines all the scientille and.prac
ticaf qualificsu r imis of a lrst-class`
tfe is in arAiteet ns trell 4•3 4 Carpenter, and
has been the builder of a large number of the
largest, itandsoute-st and most substantial sum , -
thies in arufabo;M (49i• Oily, 'hilt. no,ne of them
40, gpater. credit to 114 skill and genius than
the Allegheny Banli.
The buildings of Messrs. - Hussey & Co., tho
Pittsburgh and Boston Copper. Mining Com . -
pany, and William Bagaley, Esq., were con
structed by Mr. Abraham Patterson, the survi
ving Partner of the well-kt.own firm of I. & A .
T'atterson, who probably have constructed
more buildings-than any other cOncern in our
city, • ‘ ; ,
The entire, workmanship of these buildings,
done' under, the superintendence and direction
of the best mastergneclitanies cki,:r city, and
9ompotent Workmen, is
of the very hestapd reost subitantial character.
The choicest material has been used, abd fiU
labor or expenp has been f;pared to render
I.l{e# structttre elegant, substantial and
complete.
Notwithstanding the surprising quickness
with which the work has been done, it
well done. Thera IS Alit ill the city, a building
which surpasses it., Diary detitil has been care
fully carried out, and the solid and substantial
most happily combined with the ornamen
tal. .
Mr. Edgar and_Mr..f'atterson may point to
the Bank Block with pride, for in its construe'
tion they have add e d to - their previously high
reputatien, narineclumica who:cannot be thceel,
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4001i+thisLor any other city.
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PITTSBURGH, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1859.
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CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS, W3l. M. EDGAR, ABRAHAM PATTERSON
MANIFACIFRERS OF IRON WORK, PENNOCK & HART, ANDERSON & PHILLIP,
VIE BUILDERS.
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& s'l4. toPPER ANt' lilt NIANI
I'ArIVREIZS AND DEALERS IN TIN, LEAD. ZI
ANTIMI.NY,SIII.IET 110 IN.TINNF.ICII , IIII24, El'
Dr. Hussey was one of the iiioneers in the
de s elopement of the great mineral resources of
the Lake it 4 uper:or country. Soon after the
etistence of great mineral wealth in the then
almost unexplored regions around our North
ern lake., wit, fully established, the attention
of a number of genthimen, in this city and
elsewhere. was turned to the subject, and they
devoted their attention :Old 11 portion of their
means to the dcselopnient of the hidden wealth
Or this district. The into lamented Charles
Avery, Hon. Thomas M. Howe and Dr.
Curtis G. Hussey, were the leading spirit-, in
this splendid enterprise. if lie is a benefactor
tohis,race with Makes two grains of :wheat to
grow where . but ono grow before, how much
more largely is mankind indebted to those
who cause the bowels 0f the earth to dis
gorge that hidden mineral wealth which Pros -
idertee has deposited there for the use of man ;
and with a singular'and most wise adaptation
to human wants, provides for its discovery
and useful employment at the very periods of
time and in the parts of the world where it is
most needed and can render to mankind the
grente:it amount of good ;
Thu progress of the mechanic arts, in all civ •
ilized countries, had created a demand for cop
pet', greater than the copper producing locali
ties of the old world.eould supply, when the
new world stepped in wit.h rich deposits, and
men of enterprise and capitablike Dr. Hussey,
at once foresaw that - the development of this
mineralwealtli world notonly bring a rich re
muneration to theselves, but would add largely
to the real wealth of the cgatitry•
The opening 6.1 the lake Superior Xining
I..;egion hns given employment to thousands of
persons. It has peopled a region before wild
and deserted.- It has furnished the material
for thonsands of artiz,ana in different parts of
the world to ho employed upon, and It has kept
up a supply of a material without which
many of the mechanic arts would have lan
guished. The State has no more useful mon
than those who devote their energies and their
wealth to enterprises like this, which furnishes 1 ,
employment, directly and indirectly, to so
many 3 hands, and which result in an actual,
perrhanent,' produced addition to the national
wealth.
, As:we have said, Dr. Hussey was one of the ..
pioneem.in the copper hnliness 1p Wis 4\lllll
- Aim of which /leis now the head,
and which occupies for its bitsiness a portien
of this, block, i 4, :perhaps, one of . most eten-
Sil7lo copper manttfactgring . Arm in the world.
ts, -we believe,-now granted; that Ameris
pan
.copper is the standard copper of the cm:11
E4min' tiorldittisurpassed in purity and ex
cellence. Although not esteemed one of the
precious metals, it certainly comes very near
them iu valua,, and comes next to iron in me
chanicainsefulness; ,
The Unrivalled advantages which our lcication
offers for maitufaCturing purposes, in its Inez
hamitible supply of cheap fuel, was a fact well
known.to-Dr. Hussey.and his compuers, in the
business:of copper veining. It was' manifestly
a coMfnerciaiimpo'ssibilitY,tO talMour coal to
the mined in aulleifint4uantitieS forte predlta
ble'rediletion, of their , rich 'virgin errs; but
*theteCresCotildte'brouglit hereand profitably
p'i't;
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inh; Kramer 6. Ralun, hankers;
Antimony, &c.; Pittsburgh and
lurlington, Insurance Agent ;
Hartberger. Architect ; I. N.
'lothiers.
worked into the copper of com merce. Thus
Pittsburgh at once reaped the benefit of an ad
dition to her branches of manufacture. The
manutheturing of the copper. of the Great Lake
Districts was initiated here by Messrs. Hussey &
Co. Others have since gone into the business,
which is now a regular branch of our manu
facturing trade, but none of them as extensive
ly as Messrs. Hussey & Co. Their Copper
Rolling Mill is. located a short distance from
the city on the bank of the Monongahela river,
and is a very complete establishment. The
raw material used is purchased from the
"Cliff," ' National," and other mines on Lake
Superior, shipped by the lake to Clevland, and
thence by rail and canal and river to this city,
where it is rolled into sheets and prepared for
general use as an article of commerce.
Nearly a year ago the Orizette gave a correct
and well written description of Messrs. C. G.
Hussey t 'i;; Copper Rolling Mill, which
we bore re-produce:
On Tuesday forenoon, wo made a little
excursion to the it dling Mill of C. G. Hussey
& Co., ol the Monongahela river, in Pitt
township, about two miles from the central bu
siness part of this iron city.
"To a person who has never before inspected
a copper rolling mill, this will be an object of
great curiosity. And here we may add that
every facility for the manufacture of copper as
well as iron, is enjoyed in Pittsburgh to
it far greater extent than elsewhere in the
Union. As this is the natural depot 'for glass
and iron manufactories, so it is for copper.
%%e have such an abundance of the best fuel,
an abundance that cap r ‘ eyer. haye at
tracted thither tuch numbers of skillful me
chanics from all pints of the world—we aro so
situated with respect to all the Great Western
and Southern markets—that thereshould be no
successful rival of Pittsburgh in point of quali
ty or quantity of manufactures in the line for
which sho has long been noted. It is far cheap
er to bring the crude copper from Cleveland to
Pittsburgh than to take our coal from hero
thither. If we enjoyed no other advantage,
this alone would entitle us to supremacy over
the only city which has even put in a claim to
great advantages in copper smelting and manu
facturing.
"Messis. Hussey & Co. were the pioneers in
copper manufacturing in this city awl vicinity.
Their mill vics in 18:10 and commenced
eperi4i4s in auly of that year, just eight years
Ago. It' was in fact an experiment which has
been a perfect success, and has made and in..
creased the demand for its manufactures to a
very great extent. In the mill of Messrs.
Hussey S.; Co., there are the largest rolls for cap
per in the United States . . , In them, sheets eight
feet eight inches in width can be made, and of
any required length, shape - and thickness.. In
fact, there are, as we are informed, but one or
two mills in the World—and they are in Eng=
land--where work of the above dimensions can
be done. There are three large furnaces here,
constantly in heat, a large number of rolls in
motion, and a large number of men constantly
at work. The demand for skillful labor haS
brought together here a.large number of men
from E,r..c.:land and from Wales. The whole
number at present employed is sixty. When
times are lively there is work Dar,more. ,
" We have thus far alluded to the makineof
sheet copper only ; but ilte'capacity and real
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chinery of the mill is by no means confined to
that. All sorts and kinds of copper dishes,
tea-kettle bottords, bottoms for stove boilers,
locomotive tubes, copper bolts and bars, round,
square or octagonal, &c., &c., are made herein
any quantity and of the best material 'in the
world.
"More Over, the' manufacture of brass occu
pies a good portion of the spacious buildingi.
They have recently made improved arrange
ments In this "branch, and now manufacture
sheet and other brass of superior quality. We
saw the making of brass kettles, and some of
the same after they were finished, and never
have seen elsewhere articles of the kind com
bining in a greater degree, symmetry of shape
and beauty of finish.
"The copper used in this great mill is the
product of the world-renowned Cliff Mine,
which is owned and worked by the Pittsburgh
and Boston Mining Co., whose smelting works.'.
are near the rolling mill of which we have
above written. The copper drawn from the
exhaustless shafts of the great "Cliff" and other
Lake Superior mines is known to combine in
a greater degree than that of any other mines
in the world, the requsite qualities of softness
and tenacity. Most of it comes from the ground
in a pure state, having been smelted in a fur
nace more perfect in all its parts than any ever
built by the hands of men."
For their commercial sales room, Messrs.
Hussey & Co. occupy the large ware room of
the Bank Block nearest Wood street, No. 37
Fifth street. It is thirty feet wide by one hun
dred and twenty long, and side doors on the
alley give excellent facilities fur loading and
unloading their commodities, without interfer
ing with the thronged thoroughfare of Fifth
street. This immense ware-room is crowded
with piles of copper, in sheets and pigs, im
mense copper bottoms, Luch 'as are used in the
manufacture of the largest chaldrons, and all
sorts of articles tranufactured of copper and
brass. Pressed copper bottoms, locomotive
tubing, braziers, and other copper in endless
variety, copper bolts and sheeting, copper
rivets, and sheets of copper cut to any size and
of any required thickness, are among the vast
stock of articles of their own manufacture.
They are also most extensive wholesale dealers
in block tin, tin plate, lead, wire, sheet zinc.
antimony, :beet iron and tinners' tools.
It is needless to Say that the capital invested
in this immense business is enormous. But it
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is a noble investment, and made in the spirit of
the most liberal enterprise, for in no other way
could it furnish employment, and food, and
happiness, to so large a number of persons.
The investment pays them well for their
long years of labor in bringing their business
to its present high degree of perfection, and it
pays them doubly In the thanks of a benefltted
community. They who successfully develope
natural wealth, are of greater value to the State
than the inheritors of the most colossal for-
THE PITTsEI'I2GII AND BO ;TON MINING COM
As early as IS4n, Prof. Forrest Shepherd, of
New Haven, who had been employed by the
Pitt-burgh. and Boston Mining Company, to
make a full and thorough geological examina
tion of their exten,ive lands upon the southern
shore of Lake Superior, for the purpose of as
certaining their mineral resources, reported as
the result of his observations "that the Lake
Superior Copper region does not suffer in com
parison with the best mines yet discovered on
the globe. - He then gave it as his opinion that
it was altogether equal, if not superior, to either
Cuba, Cornwall or the Ural. Ho very justly
concluded, from the facts. which crane under his
observation, that these males would "serve as
the foundation of permanent wealth for our
selves and our children, and all we have to do
is to see that the mines are to be worked with
skill and economy." If they fail, says he, it
will be only for the want of capital, or from
capital misapplied.
Basing his remarks upon sound doctrines of
political economy like these, he proceeded to
present in detail the character and cast e%tent
of the discoveries of copper and silver with
which the region abounded, and to compare
results with the records of mining in other lo
calities.
The same year a chemical examination and
assay of their metallurgic value was made of
the ores by Prof. Silliman, which proved That
they were of the richest description.
The practical operations going on at the mines
at this time, furnished such results as surpassed
the most extravagant expectations. Solid
masses of copper of two and three tons weight,
and some even much larger, were turned out,'
and the ores generally had a very large per
centage of copper, and all more or less silver.
The Pittsburgh and Boston Copper Harbor
Mining Company, was formed by Articles of
Association, dated May 13th, 1844, between
Curtis G. Hussey, Charles Avery, and Thomas
31. Howe, of the City of Pittsburgh, William
Pettit of Copper Harbor, Thomas Jones and
Charles Scudder of the City of Boston, and
George Bates of the City of Detroit.
The six first named gentlemen were consti
tuted Trustees of the legal estate, which consist
ed of three tracts, one
.at Copper Harbor,'
another at the mouth of Eagle River, and a
third at a point six miles west of 'the last loca
tion. AU the property of tho company was
merged into six thousand shares of stocir, of
which Meisrs. 'Hussey, Avery and Pettit had a
thousand each, Mr. Howe seven hundred and
fifty in his own right, and two hundred and
fifty for the use of John Hays, at one time
manager for the parties. The remainingtwo
thousand shares belonged to the representatives
of the Isle Royal Mining Company. '
Thus it will seen that two thirds of the stock
of this most successful of copper companies be
longed to Pittsburghers. Pittsburgh' men in
itiated the movement, Pittsburgh capital and
enterprise huil,t up and developed this vast
Nv,eulth—producing interest to its present gi
gantic proportions.
The expenses of the company
, up to Jan: Ist.
1846, wore $99,591, of whielh $67,291, were for
the Cliff mine.' At the same date, the =sets
of the Company, not including real estate,
stamp mills, steam engines and machinery,
were $132,560, leaving a balance in favor of the
Cliff mine, almost at the begining of the work 6f,
$65,269. • , •
Among these assets are mentioned 109 tons
of pure copler, worth,at least, $330 per tor', or
$135,000. At this time there were employed
at the Cliff mine one hundred and nine men,
including agents, miners, - carpenters, black
smiths, .ire.
These figures show a most wonderful success,
when the gnat disadvantages attending a new
enterprise, -commenced'`in a wild country,
without experience in the business, on the part
of those • raost interested, 'are' considered. It
was only in. 1843; that; by the treaty with the
Chippewa Indians, these rich' ininerat lands
were' cedeilte•the' United - States ; - lit the
'same year, locations !nada , by &Mr. Baynttord,
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under certain governmental restriction.s,"were
purchased by the Pittsburgh gentlemen whom
we have named.
During the year 1846 the copper mining
was Continued with good success. In thatyear
a deposit of silver was opened, which was rep
resented to be.very vtduable, some of, the ore
yielding as high as twenty-seven per cent. A
fragment of the rock, in which sliver:was not
perceptible to tho naked eye, yielded seven per
cent. The news of this wondrous yield of sil
ver had the bad effect of throwing the
price of shares in the company sudden
ly up, but that deposit soon- gave out. • The
mine was, however, rich enough :or copper
alone, and has increased in richness as the
mine was opened.. With the copper, silver is
mingled, but the production of the. eaeaper
metal has proved the more profitable. •
By an act of the Leaistature of Michigan,
approved March 18th, 1848,: "The- Pitts
burgh and Boston Mining Company, of Pitts
burgh,"was incorporated, with a capital stock
of $150,000, divided into six thousand shares,
of twenty-flve dellarseach. By the by-laws of
the company, its principal office was to be loca
ted in Pittsburgh, at or. near which city the
President, andt he requisite number of Direct
ors to constitute a quorum, were at all times to
reside.
Tt scarely comes withiirthe scope of a news
paper article for us to follow the history of this
company down to the present time. In. 1849
the first divide i rid, of ten dollars per share Was
declared to the stockholders. In 1850, another of
fourteen dollars. In 1851, two dividends, five
dollars each. 1n1852, the same. In 1853, fifteen
dollars per share. In 1854, eighteen dollars per
share. Until in 1853 and 1857 the enornious
and most satisfactory dividends of thirty dol
lars pei• share vrere.declared. This, for a stock
'par at twenty-live dollars, and only twelve
years old, is wonderful. •
In 1857 the company aceepted the provis
ions of an act of the State of Michigan, and in
accordance therewith, the capital stock of the
company, although not increased in amount,
was, in 1859, divided into twenty thousand,
instend of six thousand shares, and upon this,
in June '5B. a dividend of five dollars per share,
amounting to one hundred thousand , dollars,
was declared.
Some idea of the value produced at the Cliff
Mine, may he formed from the following tab
ular comparison of the results of the several
ears included therein : •
Mineral I Ref:lced Yield' Price Value Re-
Year. I produced. I Copper. l'f ct. I I
" lb alized.
1
1853 2,263,182 lbs. 1,071,2= lbs. 47.33 27...= 0202,647 05
1854 2 332,614 " 1,315,308 " 56.35 24.38 320,7= 01
' 1855 2,995.837 " • 1.874497 " 0/56 25.33 175,911 24
1856 3,294= " 2,=1.934 " 67.48 24.12 535,843 67
1857 3,363,557 " 2,363,850 "t 7e.28 21,14 497,870 47
Product from accu
mulated slags. 71,=0 " ai- °
slags.
This brief and imperfect sketch of tho rise
and successful progress of this great mining
company will give some idea of the value to
the world of the proper use of capital-in the
hands of liberal, energetic and philanthropic
men. No words of laudation, which we can
write, would add a lustre to the memory of
Charles Avery; who was the President of the
company at the time of his death, and we arc
content that the present able managers of the
company should be judged by their actions,
their character and their enterprise, of which
their aid in producing the elegant and useful
building in which the office of the Pittsburgh
and Boston Mining Company is now locaied,
is by no means tho least.
The general business office of the company is
in the second story of this magnificent building.
The names of its executive officers and directors
are as follows :
EXECUTrVE OFFICERS.
President.—Curtis G. Hussey.
Seeretary and Trea.satrer.—Thos. M. Howe.
Curtis G. Hussey, James M. Cooper, Har
vey Childs, Thos. M. Howe, Pittsburgh) Jo
seph W. Clark, Boston ; Edward Jennings,
Michigan.
DUFF'S Mlilte.‘NTlLE C ILLEGE.
This is now, beyond. all question, them, - st
splendid establishment of the kind is the
United States. It occupies the whole third
story of the eastern section of the buildings,
having an area of al , ..ut four hundred square
yards, and is finished and furnished with a de
gree of elegance and comfort unequalled by any
educational establishment in the country.
These incidents in the history of this institu
tion are characteristic of the enterpriking pro
prietor, who has long been known as the founder
of one of the first commercial colleges in the
west. He founded :this institution in 1840,
when schools of this kind were unknown, and
when there were, perhaps, not fifty houses in
the city keeping their books on sCientifie prin
ciples. And since then, probably no man liv
ing has rendered more valuable services to the
great commercial interests of the country, by
extending and elevating the merchants' educa
tion, and probably no one has prepared an
equal number of persons for the merchant's
professton. The fruits of his labor are to be
found, not only in this city, butin all the prin
cipal cities of the Union, among our most suc
cessful merchants' and most expert and talented
accountants. - Connecticut, Maryland, Georgia,
Missouri; and lotra, besides all the surround
ing States, are at this moment represented in
his classes. Such an institution is an honor to
the city, and the act of incorporation , granted'
to it about ten years ago, by our State Legisla
' tare, was in 'this instance well des4Ted and
very properly bestowed. -
About twelve years ago' the proprietor pub-
lished his plan of commercial education in a
new system of accounts, known as "Duff's
Book-keeping;" in which the public found, for
the first time, the science extended goer the
whole field of the merchant's affairs.: This work
was soon after adopted by the Board of Edu
cation of the State of New York, for the public
schools of that city. Other eminent commer
cial authorities in tluit city, including -the
Chamber of Commerce and the American In
stitute, gave it. their official sanction, as one of
the ablest and most valuable cOntribtitions to
oar commercial literature; and it may be in
ferred that one capable of ?Producing such a
work,' must be eminently - qualified to teach the
subject of it. -
Since the appearance of this work, commer
cial colleges have sprung up in nearly all the
principal cities of the - Union, fonnded f it isgen
orally believed, upon information dravrn from
this treatise. But the institution from which
it originated is still justly'regarded, even in the
most distant points in the Union, as the head
quarters for obtaining a thorough commercial
education. For, so far as we are aware, the
principal is the only practical•naerchantin this
country-engaged in conducting an establish
ment of the kind. This is, indeed, the first in
stance that we are aware of of a practically bred
merchant giving the public the benefitof his
professional experience. And to this circum
stance alone is to-be ascribed the general suc
cess of his students in business. His valuable
IBM
MERE!