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Ironton Register,
5 Jan 1888
The Furnaces
Never did the
furnaces of this county make as much pig metal as they did in
1887. This is because the coke furnaces have been in blast a
great portion of the time. The charcoal production was
nearly an average, but seems quite small by the side of the coke
iron output. There were 98,254 tons of metal made in the
county in the year, and of this, only 12,341 tons were charcoal;
the rest coke or coal. We subjoin a list of the furnaces in
this county and the tons of metal produced in the year:
Hamilton
19,000
Iron & Steel
10,953
Alice
..22,700
Sarah
..
10,340
Belfont
..
17,920
Mt.
Vernon
.
2,900
Pinegrove
.
. 3,941
Hecla
1,400
Vesuvius
... 2,100
Olive
2,000
Total
98, 254
The last five are charcoal furnaces.
The production of Hecla was only a
five months run; the remainder of the year the furnace was idle.
The Iron & Steel furnace was banked up 47 days, and so does not
show a full product. The large output of
the furnaces of the county indicate a general employment of
labor and a large movement of material.
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