Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-10-05
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LOCAL AFFAIRS
The Glamorgan Furnace of Lewist

In March last, the Messrs Roberts, Il
D. Wood and Lewis L Watson, of Phila
delphla, r. B. Wigton of Huntingdon aud
others, forming the Glamorgan Iron Com
pany, purchased Lewistown Furnace and
the ore banks aDpurtenant, from Etting.
Graft 4 Go. The furnace had been S yer
al years out Of blast and required com
plete overhaullng and repairing This
important duty was entrusted to the Super
intendent, Mr.. George W Enney. late
Superintendent of the ST. Charles Furnace.
Columbia, and has been executed by him
with masterly energy and skill
The inside of the stack, except six feet
of the inwall, was taken down and rebuilt.
the old boilers were fitted on new aud more
elevated foundations and a new boiler
added, the gas apparatus WAS greatly
changed with entire satisfaction, new and
larger stean cylinder was put up, heavy
iron segment$ were bolted to the fly wheel
to maintain and steady the power OF the
engine, the pumps were repaire , a new
foundation was built for the engine, the
wharf was enlarged and repaired and the
feeder was deepened. two new ore wash
iug machines were erected, the McGirk
hematite bank and the Wakefield and Ort
fossil banks were put in working order and
every preparation made for blowing the
furnace in. In these arduous labors MI
Enney was ably supported by the energetic
and intelligent President of the company,
Mr. r. B. Wigton, aud in many of the
minor details by Mr.. Jones, the gentle
manly clerk, and Mr.. Tippery, a most sue
cessful aud skiful founder. The height
of the furnace is 40 feet, width at the
boshes Ii feet, hearth 81 feet.
On the 9th of September last the fur
mace blew in and has continued to work
since that time very satisfactorily, yielding
seventy ive tons of good iron per week;
although her capacity is ninety tons per
week-it was considered injudicious to
push the furnace at the start. She is
somewhat short OF fossil ore and uses there
fore two thirds hematite and one third fos
sill, but will no doubt soon reverse this
proportion, for long experience, particularly
at Freedom Iron Works, (whose iron is so
justly celebrated, } clearly demonstrates that
with two thirds fossil and one-third hema
Of Central Pennsylvania is made
The perfect success Of Glamorgan Fur
mace establishes, beyond contradiction, that
Broad Top coke, the fuel used by this
furnace, is the strongest and purest coke in
the State; It ,cU 6ear more pouerfM
di"st and has less saLphur than q coke IN
P,unSy ivania; and it establishes another
fact, that the manufacture of iron at this
point requires only skill, common sense
and capital. An enormous amount Of ig
norance and It's constant companion, pre-
sumption, has attempted this business in
this region and failed ignOminiously, and
will forever fail, even in the immediate
presence Of exhaustless deposits of ore,
cheap fuel and cheap transportation, but
managed by intelligence aud its invariahle
companion courage, Glamorgan has thus
lar succeeded and is destined to an eminent
and permanent success.
The gentlemen composing the Glamor
gan Iron Company have very large capi
tai and great experience in business and
will, We trust and believe, follow their good
fortune in Glamorgan and enlarge their
works. This Is an admirable point for the |
manufacture Of iron; our hills are teeming
with the rich oxides and the blueish grey
carbonates of iron ir immense force, a. |
well as the fossiferous ores, both soft and |
compact; rich magnetism limestone lies |
close to the Mifiin and Ceutre County |
Railroad, which passes through our town
aud connects with the Pennsylvania Central |
Railroad directly across the Juniata. We
have also the canal, and the rich semi-an
thraclte coal field of Broad Top is within
sixty miles
Ne aee'i nothiRg Lut capital The way
Is now clear the problem of the perfect |
adaptation of Broad Top coal to the iron
ores OF this extensive region is settled, a
new era is dawing upon US, the minerals |
which lie side by side and which were
thus placed tor the benefit of man by the |
all wise and bene6cent Creator, are abont to
be developed by skill, courage and science
OUR SoLDIERs.-The following is a
list of killed and wounded in the 10Th
at the battle of Winchester, as given
by Sergt L B. HiIdebrand Of Co. G
Company A. KilIed-Wm. Forest.
Wounded-Capt. j. Thompson, five severe
wounds and right arm amputated; Corp. g. /
Benter, left arm; private John Lessy, right
shoulder.
Company B. Kiled-John R,sebnurgh |
W0unded-Corp. w. Ii, irwin, thigh; G. !
Ecard, right leg am putated; VI. Likens, shoul- |
der, slight; I. Williams, breast, slight.
Company c. Killed-Sergt G S. Katner. |
w I
Ambrose, neck.
Company D. Killed. Tresslon, Corps
W. IL. Amerman. j. A. Jackson; privates w. |
hltchen, w. H. Mcfarland, Anson Mcclure, I
A. Walistr, P. Wintrode
CnmnanY f. kiIled-Pnt VI MnIntnsh j