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Each furnace was manned by one smelter ($1.75) and one helper ($1.55) per shift, when two shifts per 24 hours were run. They had to get their own coal, ore and flux, and wheel away their gray slag and ashes. In winter, when three shifts were run, the men were paid only $1.65 and $1.50 respectively. There was a foreman on the day shift, but none at night. The total coal consumption was ordinarily about 0.8 to 0.9 per ton of ore. Run-of-mine coal was used, which cost about $2 per ton delivered. The coal was of inferior quality, and it was wastefully burned, as previously referred to, wherefore the consumption was high in comparison with the average at Tarnowitz, where it used to be about 0.5 per ton of ore.

The chief features of the practice at Desloge are compared with those at Tarnowitz, Silesia and Holywell (Flintshire), and Stiperstones (Shropshire), Wales, in the following table, the data for Silesia and Wales being taken from Hofman’s “Metallurgy of Lead,” fifth edition, pp. 112, 113.