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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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pencil, we shall beable to do to the satisfaction of the reader. Within a large building some two hundredand fifty by three hundred and twenty feet, ninepuddling, three heating, and one scrap or ballfurnace, are arranged in the form of a horse-shoeor semicircle, at the open part of which is situ-ated the squeezer, through which all the ironfrom the furnaces has to pass before going to the puddling-ball-train in an adjoining building. The furnaces are constructed of ordinary brickand fire-brick, closed in or faced with iron, andtheir foundations rest upon the original rockysurface of the ravine. On this basis a platformof red brick is constructed to the level of thefloor of the building, and on this a superstructureis raised, of fire-brick inclosed in iron, and con-taining a receptacle for the fire called a gra te;an oven or bottom in which the iron is melted ;and a stove in the base of the chimney for heat-ing the pigs to a red-heat ere they are transferred AMONG THE NAIL-MAKERS. 159
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PUDDLING. to the bottom. The bottom is composedof slag or cinder on a bed of thick cast-ironplates. The fire is made of anthracite coal, andthe flame and heat therefrom passes over a soap-stone bridge to the bottom, thence to thestove, and up through the stack or chimney.About once a week the fire in the furnace is re-newed. Here is a man, said the gentleman whochaperoned our friends, who is engaged in re-newing his fire; let us observe the process.These cylindrical bundles covered with bark, andlooking like logs of wood, with which he is feed-ing the new-made fire, are the strips and refuseof the coopers shop, which are tied up in thisshape and dried for the purpose. Upon these heshovels in coal enough to supply a small familyfor a month. The bottom of the furnace isthen su))plied with slag or cinder, fine coal, anda quantity of ground ore ; the stove in the base of the chimney is supplied withbroken pigs of various qualitiesor ore, and he awaits their heating. Whenthey assume a deep

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