Eldra Iron Mongers

Eldra Iron Mongers was a prosperous iron forging and trading establishment owned by Humble Measure and based in Darujhistan. It was the last remnant of a regional business that had once been run by Measure's father from One Eye Cat.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.98
==Central office==
Its central office was a sprawling collection of buildings, warehouses, and work yards in the Gadrobi District just north of Two-Ox Gate. The entire complex was walled and virtually self-contained. Three sets of forges fronted an elongated, single-storey foundry resting against the west wall. Beneath it ran a subterranean stream that provided outflow into the Maiten River, the effluent and wastes issuing from that stream giving the bay beyond its name of Brownrun. Offers of recompense silenced complaints from local officials and fishermen.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.98-99
The administration building rose against the south wall of the compound, both office and residence. Staff quarters dominated the wing nearest the south end of the foundry. The central block housed the records and clerical chambers. The final wing was the oldest part of the structure. Far beneath the ground level of this wing, ancient stairs wound down through layers of limestone, opening out on to a succession of rough-hewn vaults that had been used as storage rooms for generations. Humble Measure had converted one such chamber into a secret office.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US TPB p.82
==Mine==
An associated mining operation was situated equidistant between Darujhistan and Gredfallan Annexe near the coast of Lake Azur. It was an enormous pit facing a cliff gouged with caves and tunnels. The mine and its town-sized settlement had a population of eight hundred. Its employees included indentured workers, slaves, prisoners, work chiefs, security guards, cooks, carpenters, potters, rope makers, clothes makers and menders, charcoal makers, cutters and nurses, butchers, and bakers. Smoke filled the air, every tree for half a league had been felled, and gulls and crows danced amidst the rag-clad old women sorting through the heaps of tailings.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US TPB p.302
The work was dangerous--both because of accidents and because of exposure to arsenic and other toxins. Miners usually lasted no more than five years and those who were too sick to move were carried out of the tunnels to serve as shift captains. The lucky survivors could eventually qualify for jobs as foremen. The most at risk were the children of the Chuffs workcamp who were employed as "moles", squeezing into spaces too small for an adult. Few lasted long amidst the unstable rock and pockets of lethal gas. Even more dangerous for children was work on the dredge crews.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.549 On average, three employees died at the mine every week, either in accidents or from long-term conditions such as greyface sickness.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.698 Rules infractions were punished with beatings or the lash.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.423Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.549
A cemetery of several hundred shallow graves was situated near the lake's dead and red-stained waters.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.368-370 Workers at the mine were fed watery soup and husks of black bread.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.421
== In Toll the Hounds==
Harllo, a young boy, was sold to the Eldra minesToll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US TPB p.229 where he was given the job of a 'mole', which meant crawling into dangerous, hard-to-reach places.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US TPB p.303/304 
== In Orb Sceptre Throne==
Krute and Humble Measure met at a dilapidated manor house situated on the premises to discuss a contract to eliminate the Legate. Underneath the house were catacombs in which Humble Measure stored his amassed wealth in the form of gold bars.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 10
==Notes and references==
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