Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-05

raised his head and looked at US, as much as
to say, gentlemen, am a mason as well as
blower of the furnace" There Is no mis-
take but what the Capt. knows his business,
for in my recollection there WAS an old
furnace man came here from New York to
make stated number of tons Of iron per
day, and froze her up SO solid that they had
to use one of the Rand air-drills to drill her
out. So the Capt. took hold again and made
some good runs. But it seems the company.
(the old p. X. /. Coz was not satisfied, and
they sent for the same man again. He cane,
and the consequence was froze her up again
tighter than Dicks hat-band. Well, it was
drilled out again. In the meantime, the
New York man said he would give her up.
The Capt. again took hold, and has had very
good success ever since. He says II they had
given him the ore he wanted, he could have
made the number of tons of iron the New
York man tried TO run.
The blacksmith shop is very shabby
looking affair. However, there is some as
fine work turned out of it as is done In any
shop in the State, Mr.. Scott Bateman Is the
boss pusher of this establishment. 1t is moth
ing to see Scott throw his linen, roll back
his shirt-collar and do the fine and difficult
pieces Of work which the balance can't cut.
Joe Bushard does all the hore-shoeing, and
there is considerable Of it done at this shop.
Mr.. Louis Gantzschier, young man of
promising ability, is Mr.. Busard's helper.
Mr.. Frank Mcfarland runs the first fire, and
and is, as near as can see, second boss.
Johnny Amelung pulls the pole for Frank.
I can't say exactly, but I think Frank has
worked at Pilot Knob for some five years in
the company's shop. He is a sober, steady,
industrious young man, and will undoubted-
~ make his mark as a first class blacksmith
in a short time, under the instruction of
Scott. Dan. Price runs the third fire in
this shop. His helper Mr.. Albert Gogel,
who yields ponderous sledge, and would
make bigger and stouter men ashamed Of
themselves. Dan, under the close observance
of Scott, is going to make first class work.
man. He is also strictly temperate and
always at his post.
1 then crossed over to the new brick
structure where are located the two large
compressors which furnish air to run the
drills on the hill. This engine-room is kept
perfectly clean in every respect, and the
machinery looks as though it is in good
shape: but of course that we don't know for
sure, not having any machine knowledge.
There are two shifts Of engineers, two on
each shift. am acquainted with Mr.. Billy
Mcfarland and Mr.. Jesse Hall; the names
of the other two are unknown to me.
went to the supply store and found a
new keeper there-a Mr.. C. Arnold. AS far
as our acquaintance is, think him gentle
man and No. business man. congrat-
ulate Mr.. A. L. Bowman for having such a
gentleman for pusher. Did not see Bow
man; he is as hard to find as Joe. Price, if
you want him: but if you don't, he turns up
on every corner.
Struck the dump and scale house on the
home stretch, and found Mr.. Len. Peck. He
is scale-master for the company. There is
quite a gang at the dump. Don't know
whether they all work there or not. / saw
Tom. Young; he seems to be a kind of boss,
by the way he rushes things around. Mr..
Claborn Russ is the water-boss, and If he
only knew it, he has very responsible posi-
tfon. Little Ed. Perry is kind Of monkey
wrench machinist. 1 saw him with a wrench
and oil-can in his possession, waiting for
the cars to oil them and tighten up the taps.
There came an old and rusty valise to
Ironton, the other day, from Lake Valley,
New Mexico, to Manuel Collard, with some
where near $40 C.. D. D. charges on it.
Manuel did not take it out. We advise him
not to, either, for it might be one of those
internal machines that are so plenty in Eu.
rope at present.
II some enterptising fellow would come up
here on the hill and start to bottling up the
dualine smoke, he could dispose of it readily
on most any of the corners, as cheap drunk,
which would be very acceptable to some Of
US short time after payday, when our
Ands are low.
August Rieke says that he pays all taxes,
licenses, etc., to Ironton, but wants every
one to understand that he is miner. Now,
don't know whether he means he is under
age. I know he is frst-class barkeeper
and always has good, cold soda and beer.
Farther know nothlng-that is as regards
anything stronger. He is also little inclin-
ed to be musical.
Capt. Birtley had hard time the two last
days of last month, measuring up all the
contracts and setting the boys to work again;
but the captain has got lots of patience.
There were 107 loaded fiat cars consigned
from Pilot Knob on Monday, 26th of May.
II there are any of the numerous base
ball clubs in Southeast Missouri who are not
too heightened to try game of ball with us
greasy and iron-dust besmeared miners,
they can drop word to Eugene O'Rory.
The boys are getting up subscription in
behalf of the three babies which came to Mr..
Davis residence last week. 1t isn't often
we can boast of such an occurrence as the
birth of triplets, and the men on the hill and
in town propose to encourage that sort of
enterprise. Who'll be next?
A Walking Skeleton.
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