The new works are built on level ground; there has been no attempt to seek or utilize a sloping or a terraced surface, save immediately in front of the blast furnaces, where there is a drop of several feet from the furnace-house floor to the slag-yard level, affording room for the large matte settling-boxes to stand under the slag spouts. A lower terrace beyond the slag yard furnishes convenient dumping ground. Otherwise the elevations required in the works are secured by mechanical lifts, the ore, fluxes and coal being brought in almost entirely by means of inclines and trestles. The plant consists essentially of two parts, the roasting department and the smelting department. The former comprises a crushing mill and two furnace-houses, one equipped with Brückner furnaces and the other with hand-raked reverberatories. The reverberatories are of the standard design, but are noteworthy for the excellence of their construction. Similar praise may be, indeed, extended to almost all the other parts of the works, in which obviously no expense has been spared on false grounds of economy. The roasting furnaces stand in a long steel house; they are set at right angles to the longer axis of the building, in the usual manner. At their feed end they communicate with a large dust-settling flue, which leads to the main chimney of the works. The ore is brought in on a tramway over the furnaces and is charged into the furnaces through hoppers. The furnaces have roasting hearths only. The fire-boxes are arranged with step-grates and closed ash-pits, being fed through hoppers at the end of the furnace. The coal is dumped close at hand from the railway cars, which are switched in on a trestle parallel with the side of the building, which side is not closed in. This, together with a large opening in the roof for the whole length of the building, affords good light and ventilation. The floor of the house is concrete. The roasted ore is dropped into cars, which run on a sunken tramway passing under the furnaces. At the end of this tramway there is an incline up which the cars are drawn and afterward dumped into brick bins. From the latter it is spouted into standard-gage railway cars, by which it is taken to the smelting department. The roasted ore from the Brückner furnaces is handled in a similar manner. The delivery of the coal and ore to the Brückners and the general installation of the latter are analogous to the methods employed in connection with the reverberatories.